Adding emphasis
Overview
In this second lesson on entertainment, students will learn how to add emphasis to statements using different kinds of fronting and cleft sentences. The session will help students better understand these structures and their effective use in highlighting specific parts of a sentence.
The lesson plan starts with suggested boardwork that shows one way to present these techniques. After that, students will participate in several collaborative grammar tasks and a homework prep activity. Finally, the lesson concludes with a fun classroom game centred on entertainment-themed idioms, providing a lighthearted way to wrap up the class.
Lesson Outline
Classroom activities
Use of the board
Students review different kinds of fronting and cleft sentences that we can use to add emphasis to statements.
Rewrite
The students will rewrite phrases to make them more emphatic.
Phrasal verbs
In pairs, students have to create sentences that blend the language for the lesson with phrasal verbs related to the theme of the current unit (entertainment).
Suggested homework
For this activity, we're going to prepare students for their homework assignment.
Classroom games
Idioms: Entertainment
In teams, students will work through a list of idiomatic expressions and try to compose definitions.
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