LESSON PLAN/ A COMMUNICATIVE ACTIVITY
THE ART OF PERSUADING
02-20-2008
OBJECTIVE: Students be able to convince or persuade using expressions of
persuasion.
MATERIAL: the map of USA (but a map
of any country can be used)
PROCEDURE:
Step 1: students are told this: I am a
tourist in USA and I want to visit one state. If the class is small, each
student should choose a state; if the class is large, each group should choose
a state.
Step 2: Elicit expressions of persuasion
and write them on board.
Step 3: Students should be given time to prepare their arguments.
(For example : you
should go to California because you can go the ocean, Chinatown, Los
Angeles…..)
Step 4: Students start persuading me to
visit their state while their peers should be very attentive and try to find
areas that are less attractive in the chosen state. So, you should expect
students to participate actively because they want to win the argument.
Step 5: the student or group who provide
the most and the best arguments win, and so you can go the state they persuaded
you to go to.
Step 6: Follow up: Along all the way the
lesson was taking place, all the vocabulary of importance should be written on
board. At the end of the lesson, students should choose a word from that list
and adopt it. They should be very creative about the word they adopted and
consider it as their baby. The next cession they should bring their
productions: paintings, jokes, proverbs…