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Localizing EFL Speaking Lessons CamTESOL 2011 Shally Toun

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How to Localize EFL Speaking Lessons for Cambodian Learners

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1. Model Localized Lesson Plan

How to Give your Opinion

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2. Supporting Materials a. How to Give an Opinion (explanation) 5 b. Opinion Expressions Worksheet 6 c. Opinion Expressions Answer Sheet 7 d. Giving Your Opinion A & B (Use activity) 8 e. Opinion Giving Cards 9-11

3. Resources & Contact Information 12


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Model Localized Lesson Plan Level: Pre-Intermediate

Lesson Type: Speaking

Target Structure:

a. b. c.

giving opinions asking for opinions agreeing and disagreeing with opinions

Materials: How to Give Your Opinion (teacher’s copy) Opinion Expressions (teacher’s copy) Opinion Expression Cards (optional) Giving Your Opinion A & B (optional)

A. PRESENT (15 minutes)

1. Introduce the topic of the lesson: how to give your opinion, ask for opinions, and disagreeing and agreeing with opinions.

2. Use the How to Give your Opinion; write the example opinion on the board. “In my opinion, Sivatha Road is terrible because there are so many potholes. They make it very dangerous for cars and bicycles.”

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Elicit the different parts of the sentence while pointing to each part: a. What’s this? (In my opinion) b. What is this? (Sivatha Road is terrible) c. What’s this? (…because there are so many potholes) d. What’s this? (They make it …)

Answers:

a. This is called an opinion giving expression. We use it to introduce an opinion. b. This is our opinion. This is “how” we feel about something/someone. c. This is the reason for our opinion. This explains “why” for our opinion. d. This is extra information. We give this to make our opinion stronger. We want

the other person to support our point of view. Have students take notes during your explanation.

4. Below the sample opinion, write the words Agree and Disagree with agreeing and disagreeing expressions; your board should look like this:

In my opinion, Sivatha Road is terrible because there are so many potholes. They make it very dangerous for cars and bicycles.

Agree Yes, exactly.

Disagree

Well, you may have a point, but…

5. Elicit responses from students that agree and disagree with the opinion on the board;

your board should look like this (for example):


3 In my opinion, Sivatha Road is terrible because there are so many potholes. They make it very dangerous for cars and bicycles.

Agree

Yes, exactly. It is so difficult for me to ride my bicycle. I fell off my bicycle yesterday because of a pothole.

Disagree

You may have a point, but recently the road is being repaired, so I think it’ll be better soon.

6. Elicit the different parts of an agree and disagree statement:

a. What’s this? (Yes, exactly) b. What’s this? (It’s so difficult …) c. What’s this? (You may have a point, but) d. What’s this? (…recently the road…)

Answers:

a. an agree expressions b. information to support the other person’s opinion c. a disagree expression d. information against the other person’s opinion

B. PRACTICE (25 minutes)

Discovery Categorization Activity: 1.

Tell students that they are now going to learn expressions for opinion giving, agreeing and disagreeing.

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Give each group a set of opinion expression cards; have the Ss arrange the cards into the correct categories and have them write down the expressions in their notebooks.

Monitor to give Ss help; most groups will put “I couldn’t agree more” in the “disagree” category. Make sure you correct them (Although the sentence form is negative, the sentence has a positive meaning because “more” is added at the end). If it is not possible to place students in groups or make copies, write down the expressions in random order on the whiteboard and then have students write the expressions under the correct heading in a table in their notebooks.

Model Opinion Expressions Table:

Give an Opinion

Ask for an Opinion

Agree with an Opinion

Disagree with an Opinion


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Have one student in the group collect the cards.

a. This student is going to be the drill instructor. b. He/she will say each expressions and the rest of the group will have to repeat it. c. The drill instructor says the expression until the entire group can say it fluently. d. After the drill instructor has practiced each expression, she/she then passes the

cards to another student to be the drill instructor. e. Monitor to make sure each group pronounce the expressions fluently.

If it is not possible to make cards, follow these instructions:

a. Place students in a group of four. b. Have one student keep his/her notebook open and have all other students close

their books. c. The student with his/her book open is the drill instructor. d. The drill instructor says the expression until the entire group can say it fluently. e. After the drill instructor has practiced each expression, he/she then passes

his/her notebook to another student to be the drill instructor. f. Monitor to make sure each group pronounce the expressions fluently.

C. USE (25 minutes)

1. Have students work in pairs.

2. Give one student from each pair Giving Your Opinion A.

3. Go through the instructions:

a. Student A chooses a topic and gives his/her opinion on it. b. Student B agrees or disagrees with Student B. c.

4. Give one student from each pair Giving Your Opinion B (students switch roles; student B gives his/her opinion and student A agrees or disagrees with his/her opinion).

5. Ask students’ to report back to you on 1-2 opinions of their partners.

Make sure you monitor the time for these activities so that both students get the chance to give their opinions; about 12 minutes for each one.

If you can’t make copies, you can copy the information onto the whiteboard and then have students write it down in their notebooks before you start the activity. In order to save time, have student A copy down only the information from the Giving Your Opinion A and have student B copy down only the information from Giving Your Opinion B.

D. HOMEWORK

1. Have students choose five topics from their partners’ list and have them write their opinions about those topics for homework.


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Opinion Expressions Place the expressions into the chart below.

Yes, exactly. That’s not really how I see it. As I see it, … What do you think?

Well, if you ask me… How do you feel about this? I couldn’t agree more. Perhaps, but …

In my opinion, … You have a good point, but… Do you agree with …’s opinion? That’s what I was going to say.

Give an Opinion

Ask for an Opinion

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Opinion Expressions Answers

Give an Opinion

Ask for an Opinion

In my opinion, ... As I see it, … Well, if you ask me ...

And ..., what do you think? How do you feel about this? Do you agree with .....’s opinion?



Yes, exactly. I couldn’t agree more. That’s what I was going to say.

You have a good point, but ...

That’s not really how I see it.

Perhaps, but …


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Giving your Opinion A

Student A: Choose a topic and give your opinion on it. Student B: Agree or disagree with your partner.

1. Siem Reap

2. Kralanh Market

3. motodops

4. public school

5. my English ability

Giving your Opinion B Student B: Choose a topic and give your opinion on it. Student A: Agree or disagree with your partner.

1. Phnom Pehn

2. Night market

3. tuk-‐tuk drivers

4. school uniforms

5. Bayon English Academy


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Resources & Contact Information

Bayon English Academy (BEA): www.bea-cambodia.org All of the materials from this presentation can be found in the “Professional Development” section on the BEA website. Additional localized lesson plans for will be available by the end of March 2011. Contact Information: Shally Toun

[email protected]

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