Activity 1: Warm-up · 5 minutes
Setting the Project Goal
a) Aims
Ss understand the task of the project and the kind of product they need to make.
b) Content
T shows a picture of a school yearbook and asks: 'What is a yearbook? What information do we usually find on a yearbook page?' Then T shows the project brief: 'My class yearbook: interview a classmate, ask permission to use a photo or draw a picture, describe appearance neutrally, personality with evidence, hobbies and favourite subject. Write one yearbook page and introduce it to the class.'
c) Expected outcomes
Ss can name the product (one yearbook page about a classmate) and at least three required items: appearance, personality with evidence, hobbies and favourite subject.
d) Organisation
Teacher's activities
Students' activities
Teacher
Step 1: Task delivering
T shows the yearbook picture and asks: 'What do you see on this page?' T then displays the project brief and says: 'Today you will make a yearbook page about one classmate.'
Students
Ss look at the picture and answer: 'It has photos and names of students.' / 'It has short descriptions.'
Teacher
Step 2: Task performance
T asks Ss to read the brief silently and underline the requirements. T monitors and helps weaker Ss with vocabulary such as 'interview', 'permission' and 'evidence'.
Students
Ss read the brief individually and underline the key words: interview, permission, appearance, personality, evidence, hobbies, favourite subject.
Teacher
Step 3: Report and discussion
T asks: 'What do you need to include in your page?' and calls on some Ss to answer.
Students
Ss answer: 'We need to write about the appearance, the personality with examples, and the favourite subject and hobbies.'
Teacher
Step 4: Conclusion and assessment
T confirms the product and states the lesson goal: 'Today we will read a model, plan our page, check our work and present it.' T reminds Ss to label any invented detail.
Students
Ss copy the lesson goal into their notebooks.