Guideline: What are you doing?
The teacher introduces the target language.
Talkmor Suggestions:
Use gestures, role-play and repetition all the time.
Level: Absolute beginner
Warm-up: What are you doing?
The teacher introduces basic language for a greeting.
Talkmor Suggestions:
Students need to listen carefully and practice responses to different greetings.
Students practice in pairs. Pay attention to pronunciation.
Duration: 5+ minutes
Level: Absolute beginner
Main Activity 1: What are you doing?
Students learn how to greet during certain times of the day and associate certain regular actions with these times.
Talkmor Suggestions:
Students to practice the conversation and pronunciation.
Students to work in pairs.
Duration: 10 minutes
Level: Absolute beginner
Main Activity 2: What are you doing?
The teacher introduces gerunds as an alternative way to talk about things we do at certain times.
Talkmor Suggestions:
Students need to understand and respond. Pay attention to pronunciation.
Students to work in pairs.
Duration: 10+ minutes
Level: Absolute beginner
Main Activity 3: What are you doing?
Class activity. Immediate and Extended family trees. Students are to answer questions. Students also learn how to build a short conversation by exchanging personal information.
Teacher’s Key included.
Talkmor Suggestions:
Students need to think and apply previously-learned vocabulary on the family tree.
Students to work in pairs and exchange personal information.
Duration: 15+ minutes
Level: Absolute beginner
Main Activity 4: What are you doing?
Individual challenge. Match the family member to his/her description.
Talkmor Suggestions:
Students to apply the new vocabulary they have learned.
Duration: 10 minutes
Level: Absolute beginner
Warm-down: What are you doing?
Board game. Pair-work.
Talkmor Suggestions:
Students work in pairs – use a dice and counters and play the board game. Fluency practice.
Duration: 10 minutes
Level: Absolute beginner
