LESSON 1: Speaking

MAIN SKILL(S) FOCUS: Speaking

THEME: Consumerism and Financial Awareness

TOPIC: Money
WEEK:

LANGUAGE/GRAMMAR FOCUS: Vocabulary related to the topic of money

MATERIALS / CROSS CURRICULAR DIFFERENTIATION

CONTENT STANDARD LEARNING STANDARD LEARNING OUTLINE
REFERENCES ELEMENT STRATEGIES

Main Skill Main Skill Teachers to refer to the Access to bilingual Financial Education Please refer to provided
suggested lesson plan on dictionaries suitable for list of differentiation
Speaking 2.1 Speaking 2.1.1 the following page. A2 learners strategies and select
appropriate
Communicate Ask about and give strategy/strategies.
information, ideas, detailed information
opinions and feelings about themselves and
intelligibly on familiar others
topics

Complementary Skill Complementary Skill

Reading 3.1 Reading 3.1.4

Understand a variety of Use with some support

texts by using a range of familiar print and digital
appropriate reading resources to check
strategies meaning
to construct meaning
Pre-lesson
1. Greet pupils and explain that in this lesson, they’ll get to know each other a little, and will practise speaking, listening and using dictionaries
about a topic which they’ll be studying over the next 5 lessons. Tell them they’ll find out the topic later.

Lesson delivery
2. Introduce yourself. Tell pupils a little about your family, something you like and why, and something you don’t like and why.

3. Tell pupils that you want them to introduce themselves to each other in small groups, and that they will need to remember what their
classmates tell them, as they’ll report this information to other classmates.

4. Divide pupils into groups of 3, and ask them to tell each other about their family, something they like and why, and something they don’t like and why.

5. Create new groups of 3 and ask pupils to tell their new groups about themselves and the classmates in the previous groups.

6. Ask a few pupils to tell you one interesting thing they learned about a classmate.

7. Divide pupils into groups of 5 or 6 and explain that the topic of the lesson is now changing. Tell pupils that you’ll say 5 letters of the alphabet,
and that the group must make this letter together in any way they choose, so that their group represents the letter. E.g. if you say C, they could stand
in a semi-circle.

8. Say the letters M-O-N-E-Y pausing after each letter, so that groups have time to make the letter.

9. Elicit from the class the word they’ve made (Money).

10. Ask pupils to work in pairs and think of 5 ways or more people can get money (e.g. find it on the street): tell them that they can use
dictionaries to find and check words if necessary.

11. Elicit suggestions on the board.

(Possibilities include find money, earn it, steal it, inherit it, win it, borrow it, beg for it)

Post lesson
12. Ask pupils to put these ways of getting money in order from most common to least common: pupils do this individually, and then share
answers as a whole class.