Robyn Schuck Lesson Plan Outline Requesting permission indirectly Topic: Requesting permission Class/Level: ESL 6 (CLB 5/6),

, about 15-20 students Age/Population: ESL Canadians, young adults (18-early 20s) from various cultural/L1 backgrounds Materials: video clips (Modern Family, season 1 episode 8, Great Expectations) Language Focus: The purpose of the activity is for students to understand requests and problems in communication with implied meanings. Skills/Objectives: The micro-skills (from CLB 6 listening competencies) targeted are: Identify specific factual details, main intent, main ideas, and implied meanings. Identify language functions (requests and problems in reception and communication) Identify situation and relationship between speakers. Identify mood, attitude and emotional states from tone and intonation. Predict what will happen next in a story. Identify some common idiomatic expressions.

Lesson Sequence: Stage Warm-up Tasks/Procedures Think about a time you really wanted something but knew your parents would say no. How did you bring it up? How did you try to convince them? Think about your tone of voice. Practice dialogue with a partner. Pre-view some key vocabulary (PJ party, commitment, insult, permission) Go over idiomatic expressions. Watch 30second clip first request to go to party T asks comprehension questions (What does she want to do? How did she ask? Did she get permission?) Watch 1minute clip second request to go to party T pauses video twice, and asks comprehension questions (How does she feel? Why? Did she get permission?) T hands out sentence strips, in pairs Ss identify speaker and put the sentences in order Watch clips again and confirm order of sentence strips, listen for implied meanings Ss work in small groups and reformulate scene. Predict what will happen next Timing 5min

Pre-listening Listening 1

5min 10min

During listening Listening 2 Post-listening Speaking

10min 5min 20min 10min

I need to talk to you about something Sweetie, you made a commitment. Exactly! Andrew lives a couple blocks away from Grandpa, so I figured... Right. So I wouldn't ask you this, because I love coming to your house, but it's kind of an important party... You said you'd go to your grandfather's. I'm glad we agree. So, Mom, there's a party tonight at Andrew Adler's, and everybody's gonna be there. If somebody invites you over, the last thing you want to do is insult them.