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Giving Advice with "Should" Lesson

This lesson plan aims to teach intermediate adult English students how to use the modal verb "should" to give advice. The 50-minute lesson involves warming students up to the concept of advice, having them read and analyze examples of advice using "should" in a text, explicitly teaching grammar rules around "should", and providing practice and assessment activities for students to demonstrate their understanding. Key activities include a reading with matching exercises, identifying uses of "should" in the text, grammar exercises, and a communicative pair activity where students practice writing advice using "should".

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Giving Advice with "Should" Lesson

This lesson plan aims to teach intermediate adult English students how to use the modal verb "should" to give advice. The 50-minute lesson involves warming students up to the concept of advice, having them read and analyze examples of advice using "should" in a text, explicitly teaching grammar rules around "should", and providing practice and assessment activities for students to demonstrate their understanding. Key activities include a reading with matching exercises, identifying uses of "should" in the text, grammar exercises, and a communicative pair activity where students practice writing advice using "should".

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Lesson Plan

Context: Intermediate level, adult students


Learner Needs: To learn and practice giving advice using “should”.
Objectives/Aims: Students will be able to understand the function of the modal “should”
and write exemplary sentences using “should” to give advice.
Assumptions: I’m presuming that these students have enough language knowledge
understand this grammatical structure.
Materials: American English File Level 2 Students’ Book unit 8A
Timing/Sequencing: 50 minutes.
Assessment: Grammar drill exercises, communicative activities

Lesson Plan:
Stage Aim Procedure Mats. Focus Time

Warm up

Start students The teacher writes “I need some advice” None. T-S 5-10
thinking about on the board. She asks students what they S-S
advice. think advice means, and elicit also that it
is a noun and that the verb is advise.
Teacher also tells sts that advice is
uncountable in English.
Then, teacher writes two questions on the
board, “Who do you talk to when you
have a problem?” and “Do men find it
more difficult than women to talk about
their problems?” and have the students
talk about these.
Lesson activities/assessments

Intro to Students look at the text on page 60. AEF T–S 5 - 10


Reading Teacher elicits the idea of contacting a page 60 S-S
radio show or a magazine / Internet
advice column. Then she focuses on the
title and elicits the meaning of the word
“macho” and asks if this is a common
stereotype in Sts’ home countries.
Reading Students read the text and match two AEF S-S 5-10
pieces of advice to each problem. page 60
Problem A = 4 & 6
Problem B = 2 & 5
Problem C = 1 & 3

Then teacher explains any unknown


vocabulary in the text.
.
Grammar Teacher gets Sts to underline the seven AEF T-S 5-10
examples of should and shouldn’t in the page 61 S-S
problems and advice and answer the
questions on page 61
Practice Students go to Grammar Bank on pages AEF S-S 10-15
should 140 and 141 and practice the usage of pages
“should” 140 and
141
Conclusion

Produce Students are going to play a S-S 10-15


writing advice communicative game (pages 103 and
using should 108) in pairs.
The class ends with writing advice for
the problems using “should”

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