Flp Spk Fortune Telling

Sample Formal Lesson Plan: Speaking Fortune Telling Bruce Lawrence

Objectives: Students will learn the different language needed for fortune telling and palm reading. Vocabulary will include parts of the palm (palm, names of fingers, names of lines, etc.). Grammar will include modals of prediction (might, will, be going to) and if clauses (if it is long and straight, you will be rich, etc.). Prerequisites: Students need to have an intermediate level modals and if clauses. Level: Intermediate Duration: 40 minutes Materials: One palm map for each S. One of ten expert sheets per S. Set up: survey of 9 other Ss Anticipated problems: The expert lines are 10 so for classes smaller than ten leave out the higher numbers; for classes over ten, make extra copies of lower numbers. If some Ss finish early go to them and have them read your palm.

Warm up: T: What did you do on the weekend? S: Sleep. Eat. Watch TV. Go clubbing. Study grammar. T: Did any of you read anything over the weekend? S: Y/N T: What do you usually read? Ss: various answers <Specific Qs> T: Do you read the newspaper? S: Y/N/a little T: What part? Ss: Various answers. T: Do any of you read the horoscope? S: Y/N/sometimes T: What do horoscopes tell you about… (the past?)… Ss: the future/your destiny/your future T: Have you ever been to a fortune teller? Ss: Y/N Yeah, when I was in Korea, I started dating this girl (my future wife) and we started talking about getting married. She was obviously really scared to tell her parents that she was dating a foreigner. You know how some Asian families can be conservative. So she finally worked up her courage and told her father. She said, “Daddy, I have something to tell you,” and he said, “You’re dating a foreigner, aren’t you?” Yeah! Spooky! He had done Um Sae a kind of fortune telling and he figured out that there was a high chance for her to marry a foreigner. Teaching: T: OK, today we are going to learn how to do fortune telling! Ss: gasp! T: What do you call this? (point to palm) S: hand/palm! T: Here take a look! This is a map of the palm (pass out maps)

<useful language> T: So, what words or phrases do you not know? S: What is a mount of Luna? T: Does anyone know (if yes, let them give the definition, if no give hints) What does “mount” mean? What is similar to “mount”? Ss: Mountain? T: Yeah, so what does it mean on the hand? (show hand at angle which shows the mounts of Venus and Luna. elicit definitions for: Mount of Luna Mount of Venus phalange T: Now, which tense do you need to do palm reading? Ss: Future tense T: Right, give me a future tense. Ss: Will/be going to T: But what if you are not sure of the future. What do you say? Ss: Might elicit modals of prediction: will be going to might could T: Now, sometimes there’s a condition on the future. For example, “If you make a wish on a falling star your wish will come true.” “If the line is long and straight, you will live a long time.” How do we make conditional sentences? elicit if clauses: If the line is long and straight, you are going to marry an ugly guy If it is short and curved, it’s OK, cause he’ll be ugly , but rich! Main Activities T: OK, today you are going to become palm readers, actually you will become experts in one line of palm reading. I will give you a sheet explaining one line. You will have to: • •

read the page and become and expert on that one line take notes about your own palm at the bottom

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then go to all the other palm readers and get fortunes from them for the other ten lines you’ll also give them their fortune

For example, I have the “Head line” so I read my own palm, take notes, then go to the next student and ask which line she has (she says “Heart line”). She reads my palm and I write it down. I also read her palm and tell her fortune. OK? So, NAME, what are we doing? NAME: Explains brilliantly what we are doing! Thank you NAME! Close: T: OK, NAME, what’s your fortune? NAME: Tells her fortune T chooses randomly for general/specific fortunes. “NAME, when are you going to get married?” Wrap up: T: OK What new vocabulary did you learn today? T: Where is the mount of Luna? What is a phalange? What does “flirtatious” mean? T: What’s the most common future tense mentioned in the palm reading exercise? Ss: Will? T: Is that the most common future tense in spoken English? No, it’s be going to. So, is it a common question to ask, “What will you do on the weekend?” No, it should be, “What are you going to do on the weekend?” Contingency Plan: If students finish early have them make them read your palm. Homework: Easy: Go home and write down five things you are going to do on the weekend. Difficult: Go home and read your families fortunes and write them down!