Famous Places

Direct Method and Audio-Lingual Method Teacher: Florea Maria-Cristina Grade: 7th Textbook: English Scrapbook Lesson: Famous
Places Type of lesson: acquiring new information and vocabulary; practicing communication skills Skills: reading, speaking, listening Purpose: The purpose of the lesson is to familiarize the students with the continent of Australia by receiving information about it in a both attractive and interactive way, as well as to enable student-student communication and interaction. Didactic Strategies: Methods: Direct Method; Audio-lingual Method Techniques: reading aloud, conversation, chain drill, fill-in-the-blank exercise, transformation drill Organization: individual work, pair-work Materials: textbook, notebook, board Objectives: O1. to create interest in the topic O2. to offer new, attractive information to the students O3. to practise new vocabulary so as to be able to use it appropriately O4. to practise reading comprehension O5. to extract main ideas from a text O6. to ask and answer questions about a text O7. to discuss about the topic of a text Timing: 50
PROCEDURE Warm-up Speaking The T greets the Ss and they greet the T back. The T checks the Ss homework orally, encouraging them when it is required and allowing them to self-correct if necessary. Interaction: T-Ss Timing: 5
Lead-in Speaking O1. to create interest in the topic
Interaction: T-Ss
Timing: 5
The T states the objectives and the subject matter of the lesson, raising the Ss curiosity this way.
Then the T asks the Ss to name all the continents they know. Afterwards, the Ss are asked whether they have ever traveled to another continent or not. If they have, they are told to name it.
Then the T tells the Ss that they will learn new interesting things about an amazing Continent called Australia.
Activity 1: Reading aloud (Direct Method) Reading, listening
Interaction: T-Ss
Timing: 15
O2. to offer new, attractive information to the students O3. to practise new vocabulary so as to be able to use it appropriately O5. to extract main ideas from a text The T names Ss telling them to take turns in reading aloud one paragraph from the text on page 44. When the Ss mispronounce a word, the T interferes by pronouncing the word exactly the same, but using a different intonation, so that the Ss know the word has been pronounced incorrectly. This way, the Ss are given the opportunity to self-correct or to
correct each other. If the Ss try a few times and still cannot pronounce the word correctly, the T interferes, asking all the Ss to repeat after her. All the new words and concomitantly written on the board, as well as in the Ss notebooks, so that the reading comprehension is ensured. Then the Ss have to decide whether the text comes from a novel, a geography book, or a tourist guide, stating the arguments for their choice.
Activity 2: Conversation(Direct)-Chain drill(Audio-lingual) Interaction: T-Ss, S-S Speaking, listening O3. to practise new vocabulary so as to be able to use it appropriately O5. to extract main ideas from a text O6. to ask and answer questions about a text O7. to discuss about the topic of a text
Timing: 8
In order to make sure that the Ss have understood what the text is about, the T asks a question about the text, namely Which is the origin of the name Australia?. She names one S who is supposed to answer the question. The she tells the same S to ask another question about the text to another S, who, after answering it, has to repeat the same operation. If one S does not give the correct answer, he or she loses the right to ask a question himself or herself. This way, the T checks the Ss comprehension of the text, as well as their ability to converse and ask intelligible questions.
Activity 3: Transformation drill (Audio-lingual Method) Speaking
Interaction: T-Ss, S-S
Timing: 7
The T selects a number of 4 sentences in the affirmative from the text, which the Ss then have to put in the interrogative and negative forms.
Then, the T asks the Ss to find interrogative and negative sentences in the text and to put them in the affirmative and either interrogative or negative. The Ss will discover that there are no interrogative or negative sentences, so they have to choose one affirmative sentence and put it in the interrogative and negative.
Activity 4: Fill-in-the-blank Exercise(Direct Method) Reading, speaking
Interaction: T-Ss, S-S
Timing: 8
The Ss are told to solve exercise 2b on page 45 in pairs, deciding which sentence should be placed in each blank. After the pairs have finished their work, the T checks the Ss work, asking for the others pairs to say if they agree or disagree.
Follow-up: Homework
Interaction: T-Ss
Timing: 2
The T tells the Ss that they are supposed to do exercise 2c on page 45. Ss have to read the text again and write two things they did not know about Australia, as well as to write if they would like to go to Australia and why they would or wouldnt like to go there.

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Direct Method and Audio-Lingual Method Teacher: Florea Maria-Cristina Grade: 7th Textbook: English Scrapbook Lesson: Famous

Lead-in Speaking O1. to create interest in the topic

Activity 1: Reading aloud (Direct Method) Reading, listening

Activity 3: Transformation drill (Audio-lingual Method) Speaking

Interaction: T-Ss, S-S

Activity 4: Fill-in-the-blank Exercise(Direct Method) Reading, speaking

Interaction: T-Ss, S-S

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