Task Based Approach Draft

Liceo Cultural Britanico Student: Cynthia Randerath Subject: Methods 2

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Age: 17 years old Number of students: 20 Book: Language to go upper intermediate Level: upper intermediate Final task: to play a crossword game. Assumed knowledge: vocabulary of common animals, descriptions. Duration: 90 minutes Aims: Topic Aim: Learners read about interesting animals. Grammar Aims: Learners learn relative clauses. Communication Aims: Learners define different words. Vocabulary Aims: Learners read new words related to the reading, especially some animals. Function Aims: learners define and describe different words. Skill Aims: learners define words orally.

Steps of the Lesson PRE-TASK

1) Introduction of the topic: Students will be told about the final task (playing a crossword game) and watch two teachers playing the game themselves. Students might guess the words while the teachers are playing and put up their hands if they think they got the word. TASK

2) Task: In groups, students play a guessing game with some animals and the teacher monitors to see what vocabulary and structures they are using. 3) Planning: after carrying out the task, each group will prepare to report to the class how they played the game. The teacher will help them if necessary. 4) Report: Students report and the teacher will give directions so as to get students do what is expected. For this purpose, the teacher will tell the class that there is a rule about the game that they are not using and that they will need more vocabulary to play the game, so it will be necessary to read an article about exotic animals in order to get prepared for the game. LANGUAGE FOCUS

5) Analysis: Students read an article about exotic animals in which relative clauses are used. As a pre-reading activity they will be asked about some pictures and to predict what the article will say about those animals. As a general task they will check if their predictions are right and as a specific task they will answer some questions about it. After that they will complete the rules for relative clauses and they will practise with some exercises in the book (enabling task). They can be asked to compare the sentences they had used in the previous

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game and the ones used in the text. They can be asked to provide examples. Practice: At this step the students play the crossword game in pairs by making use of relative clauses (that is the rule of the game).