Describing a chart

Theme:
Technology
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Pre-lesson activities

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Lesson objective

What do you expect to learn by the end of this class?

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Lesson objectives
In this live part of the lesson, you will conduct a survey and present a chart.

You will also review technology vocabulary that you learned before the lesson.

Highlighted skills:
Speaking (live class) and Listening (before and after the lesson)
Language focus:
Vocabulary: technology vocabulary
Functional language: phrases for describing graphs

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Lead-in

Work with a partner and discuss the following questions.

1. What kind of phone do you own?
2. What do you use your phone for the most?
3. What are your favourite apps?

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 Language focus 1
Look at these charts and complete these sentences in
the chat
(The chart represents the number of people who responded yes out of 100 people asked
e.g. Do you use your tablet to play games – 88 people aged 18-29 said yes)

1. The biggest use of tablets is ...

2. The second biggest use is ...
3. About 50% of people use their tablet to…
4. 4 out of 10 people aged 30-49…
5. The smallest use on average for both age groups is ....

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 Task
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 Task Preparation
You will conduct a survey of how students use their smartphones in your group.
But first, write questions you can ask the other students on which functions they use.

Function Number of students Further information

who use this
Email 3
Web browser
Music
Camera 3 But none of us posts onto social
media
YouTube
Texting
Games 1
Social media
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Task – part 1
Now, conduct a survey using your questions. Complete the table below.

Function Number of students Further information

who use this
Email
Web browser
Music 2 OUT OF 3 prefer Spotify
Camera Camera quality
YouTube 3 6 minute English (BBC’s; short)
Texting Line Messaging app? whatsapp?
Games Riddle? / solving a crime
Social media

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Task – part 2
Look at the topic your teacher gives you and prepare a simple graph to present.
• Business use
• Free time

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Feedback

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Review
3 2 1
In Chat/Breakout rooms, please share:

3 new words/phrases you want to remember from today’s lesson

2 activities that helped you in today’s lesson

1 thing you will review after this lesson

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Review
In breakout rooms, please discuss:

What have you learned from today’s lesson?

What did you find interesting/boring?
What did you need more practice with?
Did you participate fully?
Did you achieve your aims for this lesson?

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Lesson materials

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• download the *.pdf from the student
website
• save the Zoom Chat before you leave

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How can you make more progress?
Complete these additional activities online.

Read more about the language point we practised today.

https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/listening/a2-listening/facts-and-figures

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Teacher’s Notes

This slide deck was made by Sashi Rajaratnam.

Notes
Share your thoughts about the lesson with the next teacher
Language focus – a quarter / half. No category falls within this in
either the charts or the pre-lesson listening.
The post-lesson listening has 43% and 26% but I assume we are
not supposed to use that. Very confused.com. Paul Clark

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