Activity 1: Warm-up · 4 minutes
Sound Check and Quick Recall
a) Aims
Ss recall the three grammar areas of Units 4, 5 and 6 and listen to the contrasting sounds to prepare for the review.
b) Content
Ss look at four pictures (a drum, a portrait, a school gate, a fridge with eggs and milk) and answer quick questions: 'Does this drum sound like thunder?', 'Is a portrait different from a landscape?', 'How many eggs do we need?', 'What time do we meet at the school gate?'. Then Ss listen to and repeat the pairs show – vision and cheap – jeep.
c) Expected outcomes
Ss give short oral answers such as 'Yes, it sounds like thunder', 'A portrait is different from a landscape', 'We need some eggs; eggs are countable, so we use how many' and 'We meet at the school gate at 8:15'. Ss pronounce the sounds /ʃ/ – /ʒ/ and /tʃ/ – /dʒ/ with reasonable accuracy.
d) Organisation
Teacher's activities
Students' activities
Teacher
Step 1: Task delivering
T shows the four pictures on the board and says: 'Look at the pictures. Answer my questions quickly. Then listen and repeat after me.' T gives the first question for each picture and sets a 4-minute time limit.
Students
Ss look at the pictures and listen to the questions. Ss get ready to answer in full sentences.
Teacher
Step 2: Task performance
T monitors and encourages Ss to answer in complete sentences. T plays the audio or models the sound pairs: 'show – vision, cheap – jeep'. T asks Ss to repeat chorally and then individually.
Students
Ss answer in pairs. Ss repeat show and vision, then cheap and jeep, paying attention to the initial and middle sounds.
Teacher
Step 3: Report and discussion
T calls on three or four Ss to answer the picture questions aloud and asks one pair to say the sound pairs in turn.
Students
Ss give their answers, for example 'Yes, this drum sounds like thunder' and 'It is different from a landscape because it shows a person'. Ss say the sound pairs in turn.
Teacher
Step 4: Conclusion and assessment
T confirms the answers and writes the target structures on the board: as + adjective + as; some / how many / how much; at / on / in. T says: 'Today we will review these patterns and sounds.'
Students
Ss copy the three target structures into their notebooks and note the new focus for the lesson.