3.4.2 - How to teach VOCABULARY online - Observation Lesson 2

How to teach VOCABULARY online

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Observation Lesson 2

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Animal Idioms

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PROCECURE

Tell students about being scared of spiders and my mom always telling me not to be scared.

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Ask Ss what we say in English when someone is being scared of something silly: “Don’t be a ___.”

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Elicit “chicken.”  

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Reveal next slide with animal filled in.

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Tell Ss about the Hungarian version (“Don’t be a rabbit.”)

Elicit the animal for the next expression: “Healthy as a ___.”

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Ask Ss if there are any similar or equivalent expressions in their language using idioms.

Have Ss talk for 1-2 minutes in breakout rooms.

Bring them back together and elicit a few responses.

Ask Ss if there are any similar or equivalent expressions in their language using idioms.

Have Ss talk for 1-2 minutes in breakout rooms. Bring them back together and elicit a few responses.

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I was always scared of spiders, even little ones.

My mother would joke and tell me not to be a… [what?]

A chicken!

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And if I ‘chicken out’ of something, did I do the thing or not?

Ss: Not. That’s right.

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I lived in Hungary a few years ago and they had a different expression.

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They would say “don’t be a rabbit”.

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We have a lot of expressions in English involving animals.

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To say you’re very healthy, we say you’re healthy as a …[what?]

Ss: Horse?