Topic: Best Friend or Undesirable Friend

Speaking Lesson Plan – Task Based Plan

Instructor: Injee Baek(Ashley)	Level: Intermediate	Students: 15 students	Length: 30 minutes

Materials:

Board & Marker

24 strips of the descriptive adjectives

Worksheet

Aims:

1. Students will be able to describe people’s personality using the descriptive adjectives through ranking activity as a group.

2. Students will be able to communicate and negotiate their opinions with others through ranking activity as a group.

Language Skills:

Listening: listening group members’ questions and answers

Reading: read the vocabulary on the strips

Speaking: communicate with their group members about friend’s qualities and negotiate the rank of the personalities as a group

Writing: write reasons of their ranking choice

Language Systems:

Phonology: sound of the descriptive adjectives

Lexis: key vocabulary used in expressing the personality

Grammar: the uses of superlatives

Function: expressing the opinion

Discourse: share ideas and negotiate with others

Assumptions:

Ss can speak and write in English but not very accurate.

Ss know the teacher’s style of teaching and the pace of course

Ss may already know the vocabulary to present.

Anticipated Errors and Solutions:

1. Students may have some difficulties in understanding some vocabulary.

→ Give as many synonyms as possible to help their understanding.

2. Students many need more tim to think and work on group-work.

→ If group work takes more time than anticipated, give students one more minutes to make a conclusion with their members, and have fewer ideas with the whole class.

3. Students may finish the group-work earlier than anticipated.

→ Ask as many students as possible which one rank from 1 to 3 and why.

References:

http://esl.about.com/od/conversationlessonplans/a/l_bwfriend.htm

Pre Task
Materials: Board & Marker
Time	Set Up	Student Activity	Teacher Talk
3 min	Whole Class	Ss talk about their friends and their personality.	[Greeting & Brief Rapport] T: Do you have a best friend who is really close to you? (If anyone says yes ask him/her what his/her best friends like. Try to elicit some descriptive adjectives as write the words as they come up.)

Task Preparation
Materials: Board & Marker
Time	Set Up	Student Activity	Teacher Talk
5 mins	Whole Class	Ss think and speak out some descriptive adjectives. Ss: I think.... I believe... In my opinion, ... Ss: Answer the questions. Ss: Speak what they think.	[Pre-teach] T: Great. What kind adjectives we can use in order to describe a person’s personality? (Try to elicit as many vocabulary as possible.) T: How can you say if a person is very quite and doesn’t like to talk? (reserved) T: What about who does not have any courage and very quite? (timid) T: What about their intelligence? Do you like curious people? Do you know synonym for curious? (inquisitive mind) T: Do you believe your best friend? How can you describe a person who is reliable? (trustworthy) T: When you express your idea or thoughts, how can you say? (write the expressions on the board) [CCQ] If your friend is very shy and does not like to talk much, how can you describe he/she? What kind of person is inquisitive? [Introduction of Task] T: Great. Today, we are going to talk about ‘Best Friend or Undesirable Friend’. Do you know what ‘undesirable’ means? It means you don’t want something. T: What do you think we are going to talk about? T: From now on, we are going to do ranking activity. I will give you 24 strips that describes people’s personality. First, please devide the strips into good thing and bad thing to have. Second, as a group, you need to find the 3 least favorite personalities and the 3 best personalities that you want to expect to your ideal or best friend. You also need to think the reasons to choose them. To talk about your personal opinion to your group members will be helpful. I will give you ten minutes to talk with your group members and to rank the personality. [CCQ] How many minutes do you have? Who will you work with? What you will do?

Task Realization
Materials: 24 strips of the descriptive adjectives, Worksheet
Time	Set Up	Student Activity	Teacher Talk
15 mins	Group Activity	Ss: Discuss and share their ideas toward the strips.	(devide the student in to 3 group and handout the strips and worksheets to them.) (Passively monitor the students and help or give them tips if they have a hard time to discuss. Also, try to focus on some errors Ss are having while they talk to give feedback later.) T: We have 3 minutes to finish the activity. T: Ok. Let's talk about the activity all together.

Post Task
Materials: Board & Marker
Time	Set Up	Student Activity	Teacher Talk
7 mins	Whole Class		[Review/Feedback] Share the best 3 qualities from each group and ask other groups opinion. Review some vocabulary. [Error Correction] Write some errors noticed during the activity and let Ss correct the sentences or phrases as a whole class. T: I hope you had fun ranking and thinking about personalities. See you next time.