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Pre-Intermediate

Speaking

Title: Let's Go To The Beach
Target Language: Function: Suggesting, persuading.
Description: Functions based lesson. Use of expressions such as "why don't we....", "let's..." and "how about..." including a look at the grammar of such expressions. Two freely communicative speaking activities give students a good chance to use what they have learnt.
Duration: 40 minutes.
Lesson Plan: 2S1

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Title: I'm Going To Play Tennis
Target Language: Planned future: "going to" as opposed to "will".
Description: Speaking oriented lesson tackling the difference between going to and will future forms. First part of lesson sees some work on the difference between them but most of the lesson includes speaking activities based around going to.
Duration: 50 minutes.
Lesson Plan: 2S2

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Title: Room For Discussion
Target Language: Objects in a living room, describing position, there is/are structure.
Description: A simple vocabulary activity based on items found in an average living room begins the lesson. After doing some work on positional prepositions and phrases, there is a speaking activity in which the students get to practice also their drawing skills! A definition game ends the lesson.
Duration: 60 minutes.
Lesson Plan: 2S3

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Role Plays

Title: Do You Have Any Pets?
Target Language: Looking for a housemate, interviewing people.
Description: After discussing house sharing and living with other people, the class is divided into two groups: those looking for a house and those looking for someone to share a house with.
Duration: 55 minutes.
Lesson Plan: 2RP1

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Topics

These are the materials that are based around one subject (i.e. Museums, Diets, Reading Habits) but are not centred around one language skill such as reading or grammar.

Title: Party Party
Target Language: Parties: vocabulary, accepting\declining an invitation.
Description: Everything from party vocabulary to reading invitations, deciding whether to accept or decline them - and students even get to do a Party Organizer role play.
Duration: 75 minutes.
Lesson Plan: 2T1

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Title: BASE Jumping
Target Language: BASE jumping, interviewing a celebrity and writing article about it.
Description: A general lesson on the extreme sport of BASE jumping, which includes a reading comprehension, some vocabulary work and a journalist/famous BASE jumper role play at the end.
Duration: 75 minutes.
Lesson Plan: 2T2

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