The goal of today's lesson was to get the students familiar with a more sophisticated language of travel advertisements. They had to read a short advertisement on p. 69 (New Inside Out intermediate) and do the following exercises as their homework. I often try to set exercises from the student's book as homework because I prefer my students to read at home, especially longer texts. I prefer to assign the reading tasks from the student's book to the ones in the workbook because there isn't a key for them so they really have to make an effort. Also, as my Russian DOS taught me, reading longer texts is not very communicative and should be set as homework. This was a short text but since the language is quite sophisticated I thought it was apt for homework. The text did prove challenging for them. It contains words like: trawling nets, canopy (of trees), coral gardens, select community of travellers. To check the understanding of this vocabulary I created the worksheets where they have to match pictures and vocabulary. The link to the worksheet is attached at the end of this post.
Later the students had to write a few sentences themselves as if they were meant for a travel ad. It had to be about the place they visited. They were encouraged to use the boarded vocabulary and constructions from the ads on p. 69. Finally they were asked to read their ads to their partners.
In the second part of the class the students did the grammar discovery for the modals of deduction and a lot of controlled as well as some freer practice.. I used additional exercises from the book English File intermediate. The students didn't have problems with the discovery nor with the controlled practice exercises, which was a valuable reminder for me that this is a grammar point that goes very smoothly and therefore doesn't take up a lot of time. Luckily I had overplanned for this lesson and had a lot of controlled practice exercises that enabled me to keep them busy for the rest of these three 60-minute academic hours, but I would advise everyone to be aware that this grammar point doesn't need too much explaining and it's all pretty straightforward and not very time-consuming.
Freer practice was very successful with the exercise 2 on p 71 (New Inside Out) (pairwork) and ex. 5 on p. 60 of English File.
I used L1 in explaining that Modals of deductions are used to express "Vermutung" in German. Many students can't grasp the concept of deduction. I sometimes give an example of a logical syllogism to explain what it is. Something like: "All cows are animals; all animals breathe; therefore all cows breathe".
Something that I forgot to do during the pretaching of the vocabulary is to compare and juxtapose "overlook" and "oversee". One of the students found the meaning for "overlook" as "to manage/supervise". I told her that the usage was archaic but it was a good opportunity to introduce "oversee", which I did the next day during the vocabulary revision.
https://en.islcollective.com/resources/printables/worksheets_doc_docx/pre-teaching_vocab_inside_out_p_69/tourism/102631
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