Universidad
Católica de El Salvador.
September 5th, 2014
Facultad
de Ciencias y Humanidades
Licenciatura
en Ciencias de la Educación con Especialidad en Idioma Inglés.
Top Notch Intermediate Level
Teachers: Marina Flores and Gabriela Perez
- Topic: About Personality UNIT: 7
- Grammar item:
- Gerunds and Infinitives as direct objects
- Gerunds as objects
of prepositions
Objectives:
At the end of this unit students are expected to use gerunds and
infinitives as direct objects and gerunds as object of prepositions through the
use of different activities based on reading, speaking and writing purposes.
Students will be able to
express their personal opinions using gerunds and infinitives by talking about
likes and dislikes.
By creating a conversation, Ss will be able to talk
about what they dislike doing using gerunds as direct objects of prepositions.
By asking some questions about personality, Ss will be able to explain their answers using gerunds
and infinitives
Materials:
Top Notch Book, appendixes,
markers, charts, worksheets, sentences strips, dice, CD player, cards,
whiteboard.
Time: 8 hours.
WARM UPS:
Warm-up activity: 1 (5 min)
Title: “Hot Seat”
In this game, the group is
split up into two teams. One member from each team sits facing the group. The
leader holds up a word (or writes it on the board if you are in a classroom)
for all of the team members to see except for the two players in the hot seats.
The teams must try to get the person in the hot seat to guess the word or
phrase. The first person to guess correctly gets to stand up and a new member
from their team takes the hot seat. The person on the other team has to remain
in the hot seat until she gets an answer first. You can keep score or just play
for fun.
Warm-up activity: 2 (5 min)
Title: “The sharks are coming”
The teacher pastes
gerunds and infinitive verbs on the board, then he asks the students to stand
up so he will ask your students to stand up, then he will scream “The sharks
are coming!” so all the students together will scream “how many” and the
teacher will say an “x” number and the students have to form a group so fast of
the number that the teacher has said and the one who gets alone will choose a
verb from the board and will create a sentence using one of the verbs given.
Warm-up activity: 3 (5 min)
Title: “Fact or
Fiction”
In this game, one person
tells a short story about themselves or someone they know or heard about.
Usually it is something funny or crazy. It can be a true story, or something
made up, so have the students creating these stories using gerunds and
infinitives.
Example: Josh tells a story
about his Uncle Leo who sleeps in the nude. One day Uncle Leo was sleepwalking
and he went outside and took his dog for a walk. The next door neighbor was
coming home late from work and saw him! She called the police and he got
arrested for being naked in public. (Not using gerunds nor infinitives)
Everyone around the room
has to say whether they think Josh's story is fact (true) or fiction (made up).
The student reveals the truth when everyone has guessed. Members can take turns
telling a story.
Warm-up activity: 4 (5 min)
Title: “Are you an
extrovert or an introvert?”
Students will read the two
personality traits from each column. Then, they will choose which ones sound
like their personality. At the end, they will check their results to know if
they are extrovert or an introvert person. Page 81, exercise A. Then, they will
stand up and discuss the personality traits providing real examples from their
lives. Individual work. Page 81, exercise 1.
PRESENTATION: (8
min)
“A terrific cook” (Appendix “AB”)
Description:
-
To introduce the topic, students
will be given a short reading, so they will have 3 minutes to read and then
they will have 4 minutes more to answer the statements if they are “true” or
“false”. The teacher will check answers with them.
GRAMMAR EXPLANATION: Appendix
“Z”
Note:
The Top Notch Book, page 76 offers more
information about gerunds and infinitives as direct objects.
PRACTICE
ü Controlled practice
ACTIVITY #1 (Writing exercise, 10 min)
-
Ask student to complete the
advice about managing feelings, using the verbs plus gerund or infinitive
direct objects. Page 76, exercise A.
ACTIVITY #2 (Listening and writing activity, 10 min) (Appendix
“A”)
-
Students will listen to a mix
of songs in order to complete the lyrics with gerunds or infinitives.
ACTIVITY #3 (Listening and speaking activity, 10 min)
-Ask students to read and listen to a conversation
about likes and dislikes. Listen again and repeat. Then practice the
Conversation Model with a partner. Page 77, exercise A
ACTIVITY #4 (Writing activity, 6 min)
-Students will complete the
descriptions with prepositions and gerunds in page 78, exercise A Grammar
Practice.
ACTIVITY #5 (Writing activity, 8 min) Appendix “B”
-
Ask Students to fill in the
gaps with the verbs in brackets. Then, write down a sentence with each picture
using the verbs: like, love, hate.
ü Semi controlled practice
Activity #1 (Speaking activity, 10 min)
Pair work. Students will
personalize the Conversation Model. Include gerunds and infinitives as direct
objects. Ask about other times and occasions. Page 77, Exercise B. Then they
will change partners and talk about other likes and dislikes.
Activity #2 (10 min)
Title: Sentences Strips Appendix “C”
-
Students will work in groups
of four. Then, they are going to be given sentences strips to create sentences
using gerunds as objects of prepositions. Next they are going to read the
sentences formed aloud.
Activity #3 (Speaking, Reading
and writing activity, 15 min)
-
Before having the students
reading, explore their ideas: in what way does a parents´ behavior affect a
child´s development? Then, ask the students to read the passage “Personality:
from Nature or Nurture?” After the students have read, ask them to work in
pairs to answers these questions: What is your definition of personality? What
kind of personality do you have? Etc. Then have the students skim the two
columns and try to match the words with their definitions. Then, ask them to
compare answers. Page 80.
Activity #4 (Reading activity,
10 min) Appendix “D”
-
Ask students to read the
article “Looking for love”. Ask the students what was the article about? Then,
ask them to choose the best answer for of the statements, after the students
have done this, have them answer the questions provided.
Activity #5 (speaking
activity, 12 min) Appendix “F”
-
Ask students to make
groups of three, and then provide the board game and some dices. Have the
students taking turns in order to play with the board game and talking about
what they got in each of the cases using infinitives and gerunds depending in
each of the cases given.
ü Free practice
Activity #1 (Speaking activity,
12 min) Appendix “G”
-
Ask the students to make
groups of three, then ask them to talk about likes and dislikes by the page
provided using gerunds. Then, choose some students to share their opinions.
Activity #2 (speaking and writing activity, 15 min) Appendix
“H”
-
Ask
the students to get in pairs, then provide each student a list of questions
which they have to complete. Then, give students some minutes to discuss each
of the questions given.
Activity #3 (Writing and Speaking activity) 10 min
-Pair Work. Students will
create a conversation to talk about what they dislike doing using gerunds as
direct objects of prepositions. Then, they will pass to the front and perform
it.
Activity #4 (Speaking activity) 10 min
-Discussion: Where do you
think your personality came from, nurture or nature? Did your personality
traits come from your parent´s genes or did you learn to be the way you are?
Explain with examples using gerunds and infinitives.
Wrap Up (10 min for
each one)
-
Provide the photos in the piece of paper, then ask the
students to write a story about what people in the photos like /dislike doing. Appendix
“I”
-
Ask students to write at least two paragraphs about
the personality of someone they know well using gerunds as direct object of
prepositions.
-
Ask the
students to bring some pictures showing their personality in order to pass to
the front and explain to their classmates.
Homework:
- Ask the students to write 20 line journals telling
about their likes and dislikes using gerunds and infinitives.
- Students complete unit 7 on their workbook.
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