Activity 1: Warm-up · 5 minutes
Warm-up: Welcoming visitors
a) Aims
Ss activate prior knowledge about welcoming foreign visitors and notice -ing forms used after verbs and in sentences about activities.
b) Content
T shows a picture or slide of students welcoming ASEAN visitors at a school gate. T asks Ss to look at the sentences on the board and say what is happening: 'Meeting new people is exciting.' 'We enjoy showing visitors around.' Ss find the words ending in -ing and say which words are verbs.
c) Expected outcomes
Ss identify the -ing words 'Meeting' and 'showing' and realise that these verb forms are used as nouns in the sentences. Ss predict that today's lesson is about the gerund and the elision of vowels in fast speech.
d) Organisation
Teacher's activities
Students' activities
Teacher
Step 1: Task delivering
T shows the picture and asks: 'What are the students doing? What activities are mentioned?' T writes the two sentences on the board.
Students
Ss look at the picture and the sentences, and answer orally: 'They are welcoming visitors.'
Teacher
Step 2: Task performance
T asks Ss to underline all -ing words and decide if each one is a verb or a noun in its sentence.
Students
Ss work individually for one minute. Expected answer: 'Meeting' and 'showing' are used like nouns; they name the activities.
Teacher
Step 3: Report and discussion
T calls on 2-3 Ss to share their answers and asks: 'Can we use the verb meet directly at the beginning of the sentence?'
Students
Ss answer: 'No, we need meeting, because it is the subject.' Other Ss add examples of their own.
Teacher
Step 4: Conclusion and assessment
T confirms that an -ing form used as a noun is called a gerund and introduces today's topic: gerunds and elision of vowels, with the six topic words.
Students
Ss write the title 'Language: Gerunds and Elision' in their notebooks.