3.4.1 - How to teach VOCABULARY online - Observation Lesson 1

VOCABULARY - OBSERVATION LESSON

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“GET” EXPRESSIONS

LEAD-IN: (5 min)

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• to set context and engage Ss in the topic of the lesson

LEAD-IN:

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Show slide.

Three sentences - one word missing.

Elicit missing word ie ‘get’.

Ss guessed incorrectly.

Teacher revealed answer on slide.

LEAD-IN:

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Does ‘get’ mean the same in ‘get’ mean the same in each sentence?

Ss: No.

LEAD-IN:

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“Get” is a strange word in English because we use it in

many sentences, but it doesn’t always mean the same thing.

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What is the meaning of ‘get’ in each sentence.

Ss offer suggestions.

Teacher shows correct answers on slide.

LEAD-IN:

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So, ‘get’ can mean:

• receive (to get/ receive advice)

• become (get/ become stressed)

• buy (to get/ buy new clothes)

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_{End of Lead-In}

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DIAGNOSTIC TEST

DIAGNOSTIC TEST (10 min)

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• to assess Ss’ current level of knowledge with the TL

DIAGNOSTIC TEST

TASK CYCLE — SET TASK

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Let’s look at these meanings and some other meanings for ‘get’.

Here we have a lot of pictures.

Try to match the picture to the correct ‘get’ phrase (SET TASK)

DIAGNOSTIC TEST

TASK CYCLE — DEMO

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Let’s do the first one together (DEMO).

Which picture looks like ‘get nervous’? Ss: N^o. 1. Yes.

DIAGNOSTIC TEST

TASK CYCLE — WORK ALONE

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Ok so I’ll give you 5 min by yourself to match the rest (WORK ALONE).

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Are you ready, or would you like a few more minutes?

Ss: just one more.

Sure.

DIAGNOSTIC TEST

TASK CYCLE — CHECK IN PAIRS/ SMALL GROUPS

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It’s ok if you haven’t finished.

Please check your answers together and see if you got the same (WORK IN PAIRS).

DIAGNOSTIC TEST

TASK CYCLE — WHOLE CLASS FEEDBACK

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So were some of these new expressions.

Ss: yes

DIAGNOSTIC TEST

TASK CYCLE — CCQs

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If I buy my sister a necklace, did I get her a present?

Ss: No? / Actually yes I did.

If I give someone something for a special occasion, is that a present?

Ss: Yes.

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Right. What’s another word for present?

Ss: Gift. Yes.

DIAGNOSTIC TEST

TASK CYCLE — CCQs

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If two people get divorced, does that
mean they ended their marriage? Ss: Yes.

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If I get lost, do I know where I am? Ss: No.

Am I confused about directions? Ss: Yes.

DIAGNOSTIC TEST

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What is the meaning of get
in these examples?

Ss: Receive

Yes. It can be a physical thing
(eg: a gift, money etc) and it
can also be an email or a text message.

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_{End of Diagnostic Test}

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CLARIFICATION

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CLARIFICATION (10 min)

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• to clarify MPF of the target vocabulary (animal idioms)

CLARIFICATION

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What does ‘get’ mean in these examples?

Ss: Buy?

For some of them it could mean buy. Can you buy a job?

Ss: No. What’s a better word?

Ss: Obtain.

Right. I have something I didn’t have before

CLARIFICATION

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So now we know that ‘get’ can mean:

• to receive

• to buy

• to obtain

CLARIFICATION

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What does ‘get’ mean in these examples?

For example, if I wasn’t angry before but now I am? It’s a verb.

Ss: become? Yes

CLARIFICATION

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When ‘get’ = Become

We can see that ‘get’ can be used for feelings: get / become angry or nervous.

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We can also use it for a state we are experiencing:

to get lost, to get in shape.

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GET + ADJECTIVE

CLARIFICATION

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When ‘get’ = Become

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What about these? To get married, to get divorced.

Are these feelings? States? Actions?

Ss: Actions. A verb.

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Right. We can use ‘get’ with a verb. What form is the verb in?

The present or the third form? Ss: The third form. Good.

CLARIFICATION

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When ‘get’ = Become

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We can see that ‘get’ can be used actions in the third form (ie: the past participle).

GET + PAST PARTICIPLE

CLARIFICATION

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When ‘get’ = Become

Does ‘get’ also mean ‘become’ in these examples? Become colder / better / warmer?

Ss: Yes. Right.

CLARIFICATION

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When ‘get’ = Become

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In these examples, what kind of word comes after ‘get’? Are these words used to compare things? Ss: Yes. Right.

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GET + COMPARATIVE

CLARIFICATION

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In this next example, what does ‘get’ mean?

Ss: go?

Is it just about ‘going’ or something else?

Ss: to arrive?

Right. To get to school = to arrive at school.

CLARIFICATION

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We also need to use an extra word.

Ss: ‘To’. Right “To get to school.”

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The exception is ‘home’. We don’t ‘get to home’. We just ‘get home’.

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GET + (TO) + PLACE

CLARIFICATION

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In this final example, if I say ‘get on/off a bus’, ‘get up’, ‘get along well with’?

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Is there really a meaning for ‘get’ in these cases? (Teacher’s facial expression signifies amused confusion = No there is no meaning.)

CLARIFICATION

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Ss: (pick up her cues): No.

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Right. Here ‘get’ doesn’t really have a meaning. We just use it to show some kind of action or fact (ie: where or how I do something).

CLARIFICATION

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What kind of words do we use ‘get’ with in these examples:

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• get on/ off = preposition

• get up = adverb

• get along well (with) = phrasal verb

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GET + PREPOSITION

GET + ADVERB

GET + PHRASAL VERB

CLARIFICATION

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GET + PREPOSITION

GET + ADVERB

GET + PHRASAL VERB

CLARIFICATION

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So now we know that ‘get’ can mean:

• to receive

• to buy

• to obtain

• to become

CLARIFICATION

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GET + ADJECTIVE

GET + PAST PARTICIPLE

GET + COMPARATIVE

GET + PREPOSITION

GET + ADVERB

GET + PHRASAL VERB

_{End of Diagnostic Test}

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CONTROLLED PRACTICE 1

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to reinforce accurate use of the TL

CONTROLLED PRACTICE 1 (10 min)

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CONTROLLED PRACTICE 1 - SET TASK

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Communicative Task

Here are the pictures from earlier minus the labels.

Talk together and see if you can remember them (SET TASK).

CONTROLLED PRACTICE 1 - WORK IN PAIRS

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Teacher monitored and noticed they got them all right.

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To save time, and because Ss did this task easily, Teacher skipped the Whole Class Feedback for this task.

And moved straight on to the 2nd Controlled Practice.

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_{End of Controlled Practice 1}

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CONTROLLED PRACTICE 2

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• to further reinforce accurate use of the TL

CONTROLLED PRACTICE 2

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CONTROLLED PRACTICE 2 -SET TASK

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Screen share the second practice exercise: the fill in the blank task.

Fill in the blanks using the words provided.

Do a demo by eliciting the answer to the first one from the students.

CONTROLLED PRACTICE 2 - DEMO

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Let’s do the first one together.

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Elicit answer to the first question.

CONTROLLED PRACTICE 2 - WORK ALONE

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Take 3-4 minutes to do the rest by yourselves.

CONTROLLED PRACTICE 2 - WORK IN PAIRS

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Ss work in pairs to check answers.

CONTROLLED PRACTICE 2 - WHOLE CLASS FEEDBACK

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Feedback: type in answers as you elicit them from Ss.

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_{End of Controlled Test 2}

_{Next: Controlled Practice 2 - Grammar Check}

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CONTROLLED PRACTICE 2 - GRAMMAR CHECK

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The Ss filled in the blanks using the same words they learned in class.

Now it’s time to correct the grammar to account for tense etc.

CONTROLLED PRACTICE 2 - GRAMMAR CHECK

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For question 2, it is ‘get home’ or ‘gets home’? Ss: gets

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Q3: The GPS wasn’t working. Is that in the present or the past?

Ss: Past. So it should be “we got lost”.

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Q4: Is this correct? “I want to get in shape”?

Ss: No.

Actually yes it is. It’s ok.

CONTROLLED PRACTICE 2 - GRAMMAR CHECK

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Q5. We have a ‘to be’ verb: ‘was’.
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Does it show that the action (‘get worse’) was in progress? Ss: Yes.

And do we say “it was get worse”?

Ss: “it was getting worse”.

CONTROLLED PRACTICE 2 - GRAMMAR CHECK

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Q6. Is this sentence about the present or the past? (ie: this morning).

Ss: present?

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Well let’s look at that again. If I say “This is morning I ….. tickets”, do I have the tickets now?

Ss: Yes, I have them now.

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Right, so it was about the past. So how do we change “I get tickets?

Ss: “This morning I got tickets.” Yes, that’s right!

CONTROLLED PRACTICE 2 - GRAMMAR CHECK

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Q7. This sentence is correct. “How well do you get along with your brothers and sisters?”

CONTROLLED PRACTICE 2 - GRAMMAR CHECK

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Q8. This is a ‘have’ sentence: “I’ve just …. a …. from my boyfriend…”

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Did it happen in the past? Ss: It just happened.

Yes, it happened now but more like one minute in the past. So do we say ‘get’ or ‘got’?

Ss: “I’ve just got a text message”. Correct!

CONTROLLED PRACTICE 2 - GRAMMAR CHECK

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Q9. What about this sentence: “I don’t feel like [get up] today.”

After ‘feel like’, what kind of verb do we need: get or getting?”

Ss: getting [gerund].

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Right. After “I don’t feel like” we use and -ing verb.

“I don’t feel like getting up/ cooking/ going out etc.”

CONTROLLED PRACTICE 2 - GRAMMAR CHECK

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Q10. This sentence is correct. “I often get to school late.”

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_{Next: Freer Practice}

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FREER PRACTICE - (10 min)

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To encourage fluent use of the Target Language.

FREER PRACTICE

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SET TASK - Screen share discussion questions for students to talk about.

Tell Ss they should now discuss these questions in pairs.

They should answer the questions about themselves.

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DEMO - Do a demo by answering the first question: the last time I got presents was during Christmas.

FREER PRACTICE

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WORK IN PAIRS - Allow students to talk together in breakout rooms.

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Talk together and see if you got any of the same answers. [Communicative Task]

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TEACHER MONITORS AND NOTES ANY CORRECTIONS FOR LATER.

FREER PRACTICE

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WHOLE CLASS FEEDBACK - Bring
students back together and ask
them what they learned
about their partner.

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_{End of Freer Practice}

_{Next: Delayed Error Correction}

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DELAYED ERROR CORRECTION

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To upgrade Ss’ language accuracy

DELAYED ERROR CORRECTION

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There are 3 sentences that I heard.

Two of them are INCORRECT. One of them is correct.

Which one is the correct sentence?

Ss: 3? Yes.

DELAYED ERROR CORRECTION

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Sentence 1: How do we make this sentence correct?

“I got a present my mother”

We need something here: “I got a present ……… my mother.”

Ss: from my mother? Yes

DELAYED ERROR CORRECTION

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Sentence 1:

What if I gave a present to my other? What can I say?

Ss: for?

“I got a present for my mother.”

DELAYED ERROR CORRECTION

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Sentence 2:

In this sentence we need to change this word: ‘make’.

Ss: To do exercise? Yes.

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_{End of Freer Practice}

_{END OF LESSON}

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