Speaking skills

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 1

Practicing speaking skills

1 December 2020

Today's programme

Lesson goals - 2 minutes

Warm-up activity - 6 minutes

Describing a picture - 30 seconds - 10 minutes

Describing a picture - 1 minute - 10 minutes

Writing a past tense story - 10 minutes

Lesson goals achieved? - 4 minutes

Lesson goals 

At the end of this lesson.....

- learners can use different resources to look up the right words to tell their story e.g. dictionary or internet

- learners can speak for 30 seconds to 1 minute in English, to describe what they see in a picture.

- learners can use some speaking strategies when describing what they see in a picture

- learners can work together in a group to write a short past tense story

What do you see? 

Where is the picture taken?

Are there people in the picture

Are they men, women, boys or girls?

What age are they?

What are they wearing?  Sport clothes, suit and tie, jackets, sunglasses, swimsuits, glasses etc.

What color hair do they have?  Brunette, blonde, curls, bald, long?

What are they doing? Are they completing an action? 

Are they inside or outside?

Are they happy, sad, excited, cross, angry, serious?

Are there other things in the picture? Animals, cars, bikes, helicopter, shop fronts etc. in the picture?

What season is it? Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring? How can you tell?

Which country is the picture taken in and how can you tell? Flag, famous building etc.

Any famous people in the picture?

Describe a picture 

You will need to be able to speak about and describe what you see in a picture for 30 seconds and then 1 minute to your group.  To prepare...

- Look up words in a dictionary that you don't know 

- Write down what you see in the picture

- Think about how you can describe this picture 

- Think about what adjectives and adverbs you can use

- You have 2 minutes to prepare

Group activity 

Describe your picture to your group:

- Make a group of 3

- In 30 seconds describe your picture to your group (in English)

- Each person gets a chance to describe their picture

- Ask the speaker questions if anything is unclear

- Give peer feedback on A) content (what they say) and B) presentation (how they say it). 

- Self-evaluation -> give yourself a score out of 10

- You have 4 minutes to complete this activity

What score did you
give yourself out of 10?
(number)

Was it difficult to find
the right words?
Yes/No?

Did you learn any
new words today?
Which ones?

Group activity 

Repeat the same activity with your group....but now use the feedback you got from your group to improve your description of the same picture.

- In 1 minute describe your picture to your group (in English)

- Each person gets a chance to describe their picture

- Ask the speaker questions if anything is unclear

- Self-evaluation -> give yourself a score out of 10

- You have 4 minutes to complete this activity

TIP: Use a timer

Did your score yourself better the 2nd time? Why / Why not?

Who described their
picture the best in your
group?

Last summer

Last summer, it was so hot.  The sun shone brightly and there were no clouds in the sky.  We went to the beach.  We swam and built big sand castles.  We ate icy cold ice-cream and drank refreshingly delicious soda.  My mother packed us a picnic lunch.  The sandwiches we ate, were hot and sweaty and ended up covered in sand. My mother rubbed sunblock on us, but I still got a tan. My brother was stung by a jellyfish. It was really painful. It was very crowded at the beach, but we loved every minute of our time there.

Write a story

As a group you have 1 minute to .....

- choose 1 of the pictures your group had

- decide who will write the story

- decide who will present the story

- decide who will do research and keep time

You will work with your group to write a story about this picture. 

Tip: take a picture of the photo you will write a story about

Write a story

Work together with your group to .....

- write a past tense story about your chosen picture (either past simple or past continuous)

- your story should be about 1 minute long (50 - 100 words)

- you have 5 minutes to brainstorm and write the story

- think of a title for your story

- be creative

- use adjectives and adverbs 

What have you done today? What have you learned?

Lesson goals achieved?

- learners can use resources to find the right words to tell their story e.g. dictionary or internet

- learners can speak for 30 seconds to 1 minute in English, to describe what they see in a picture

- learners can use some speaking strategies when describing what they see in a picture

- learners can work together in a group to write a short past tense story

Homework

- Learn the next 10 irregular verbs (WB, pg. 94)

- Work with your group to write your past tense story.

NOTE:  Together with your group, you will present your story in class next week Tuesday (8 December).  Take a photo of the picture you are basing your story on.

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