Anticipated difficulties

Solutions

- Ss may want to use their own suggestions but they may not know how to express their ideas in English.

- Ss in weaker classes may not know how to use connectors correctly to link sentences.

- Ss may not know the structure of a paragraph.

- Be ready to provide them with words/ phrases which they can use to express their ideas in English.

- Provide them with some connectors and some examples.

- Give them some basic information about the structure of a paragraph.

Date of teaching

UNIT 1: FAMILY LIFE

Lesson 6: Writing

* WARM-UP

Task 1: Which of the following activities in the pictures do you think can be family routines?

Task 2: Read and complete the table.

Task 3: Complete the email using the information in the box.

Peer correction / Class correction

* CONSOLIDATION

Stage

Stage aim

Procedure

Interaction

Time

WARM-UP

- To arouse the classroom atmosphere.

- To get students be actively involved in the lesson

- To introduce the concept of family routines and activities that can become part of them.

TASK 1: WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING ACTIVITIES IN THE PICTURES DO YOU THINK CAN BE FAMILY ROUTINES? (p.14)

* Teacher:

- Takes the 6 pictures in Task 1, prints them out and puts each picture on different tables.

- Asks Ss to stand around the table with the activity they do most with their family.

Ss go to the table with the activity they do most with their family.

** Ss do as instructed.

*** Ss in each group share with the group how often they do that activity

**** T asks randomly some Ss to share with the class how often they do the activity and leads in the lesson of “Family routines”: Each of the activities can become a family routine if a family decides to do together and regularly.

The six pictures with six activities:

T-S

S-S

S-S

T-S

7 mins