Warm up 10 mins. This gets students to consider their own meetings which they can refer to later in the lesson.
In pairs, discuss the following questions.
Ask the class what sort of meetings they participate in. Elicit different types of meetings.
Activity 1
Examples might include:
• reporting on the progress of a project
• decision-making meeting
• negotiation
• brainstorming new ideas
• problem-solving meeting
Worksheet 1.
1. How often do you have meetings in your job?
2. What do you usually talk about in the meetings?
3. Who leads the meetings? What do they do to organise the meeting?
4. Do people often agree or disagree with each other in the meetings?
Can you think of examples of this?
Activity 2 10 mins
Distribute Worksheet 1A to each student. Ask student pairs to brainstorm and note down a few ideas about what makes a good meeting. Give them a few minutes to do this. Then ask each student to compare their ideas with someone from a different pair for a few minutes. Finally, go round the class, collecting all the ideas and writing them up on the board. At this point it could be useful to encourage a class discussion and give your students the opportunity to relate examples from their own experience. Allow students time to write all the ideas down on their worksheets for review later.
What makes a good meeting?
Note down your ideas about the important elements in a good meeting under these headings.
Preparation and organization
Timing
Leading
Participating
Language
General behaviour
Phase: Presentation of Formal Instruction Task description: In this task, with the help of power point presentation teacher explains features of modal verbs in offering, requesting, and suggesting in various situations. After the presentation, teacher asks several questions to check how students understand the grammar point.
Allocated time: 20 minutes Procedure instructions:
Teacher asks questions from students related to the topic, modal verbs (offers, requests, and suggestions) (S, L, F);
Students answer the questions by using their background knowledge (S, L);
Teacher shares the power point presentation through the laptop;
Teacher discusses, analyzes students’ answers and starts explaining the functions of modal verbs, offering, requesting, and suggesting, by power point presentation (S, L, F);
Students listen to the presentation attentively and take some notes (L,W, V);
Students ask some questions related to the new topic (modal verbs), if they have (L, S);
Assessment: Formative assessment, teacher feedback.