Academic Language
Plan
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Part of the lesson/Time
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Teacher’s activity
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Student’s activity
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Assessment
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Resources
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Beginning the lesson
15 minutes
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Opening/Closing techniques
Ex.4 A p.85
11.5.4- use style and register to achieve an appropriate degree of formality in a wide variety of written genres on general and curricular topics;
Aim: to identify introductions and conclusions of a speech
• Ask Ss to read the extracts (A-D) and decide which ones are from introductions and which are from conclusions.
• Check Ss’ answers around the class.
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Answer Key Introductions: A, D Conclusions: B, C
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Feedback:
“The praise” method
“Good job!
Well done!”
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Whiteboard
PPT (With words)
Pupils Book
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Ex.4 B p.85
Aim: to identify opening and closing techniques
• Ask Ss to read the extracts (A-D) again and match them to the opening/closing techniques (1-4).
• Check Ss’ answers around the class.
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Answer Key 1 B 2 D 3 A 4 C
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Feedback:
“The praise” method
“Good job!
Well done!”
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Whiteboard
PPT (With words)
Pupils Book
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Ex.4 C p.85
11.4.6 - recognize the attitude, opinion or tone of the writer in extended texts on a range of more complex and abstract general and curricular topics;
Aim: to identify opening and closing techniques in a model speech
• Give Ss time to read the introduction and conclusion of the model again and decide which techniques the speaker uses.
• Check Ss’ answers around the class.
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Answer Key
Opening technique: narrate a story
Closing technique: ask a rhetorical question
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Feedback:
“The praise” method
“Good job!
Well done!”
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Whiteboard
PPT (With words)
Pupils Book
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Your Turn
Ex. 5 p.85
Aim: to analyse a rubric
• Ask Ss to read the rubric and answer the questions.
• Check Ss’ answers around the class.
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Answer Key
1 I will be talking to students.
2 I will talk about energy storage towers.
3 The purpose of the speech is to inform.
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Feedback:
“The praise” method
“Good job!
Well done!”
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Whiteboard
PPT (With words)
Pupils Book
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Ex. 6 A p.85
11.5.2- use a wide range of vocabulary, which is appropriate to topic and genre, and which is spelt accurately;
Aim: to prepare for a writing task; to expand ideas into sentences
• Explain the task and give Ss time to expand the ideas into sentences.
• Check Ss’ answers around the class.
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Answer Key
2 It requires a crane that is 120 metres tall with six arms and concrete blocks that weigh 35 tons each.
3 The system is controlled by innovative software.
4 When the electricity demand decreases, the crane uses surplus power to build a tower of blocks.
5 When demand increases, the crane lowers the blocks using gravity.
6 The potential energy in the blocks is converted into electricity by a turbine.
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Feedback:
“The praise” method
“Good job!
Well done!”
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Whiteboard
PPT (With words)
Pupils Book
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Ex. 6 B p.85
11.5.2- use a wide range of vocabulary, which is appropriate to topic and genre, and which is spelt accurately;
Aim: to match benefits to justifications
• Explain the task and give Ss time to match the benefits (1-4) to their justifications (A-D).
• Check Ss' answers around the class.
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Answer Key 1 C 2 D 3 B 4 A
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Feedback:
“The praise” method
“Good job!
Well done!”
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Whiteboard
PPT (With words)
Pupils Book
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Ending the lesson
15 minutes
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