1.       Activity Source: https://www.fluentu.com/blog/educator-english/speaking-activities-for-esl-students/

2.       Level of students: Low medium; Communicating ideas- 2, listening comprehension- 2, fluency- 2, Accuracy- 2, rich structures- 0

3.       Activity description: A student draws the name of a celebrity out of a hat. Other students need to guess who’s on the paper by asking a series of yes/no questions, mainly in the present simple tense.

4.       Time allocation: 5- 10 minutes (one or two rounds).

5.       Pre- activity: 

a.       Teach how to ask Y/N questions in present simple and in past simple.

b.       Prepare a list of celebrities, write each one on a note. Put folded notes in a hat.

1. Source:
https://www.real-english.com/reo/5/unit5.htm

This short lesson provides examples of nationalities and the usages of "Where are you from?" and "What nationality are you?" by watching a short video without subtitles and with – doing some listening comprehension exercises and finally practicing themselves and recording their own videos and presenting in class.

2.    The level of the students are beginners. Communication ideas- 3, listening -3, fluency 2, accuracy- 2.

3.   Time allocation- a length of a lesson. After that another lesson for presenting students' products.
Pre activity- Explaining the difference between the names of a country and the nationality. The teacher can make some flash cards of the countries and nationalities before the lesson. Also, some of the sentences used in the movie clip- like: "what's your name?"

4.    How to do the lesson:

1.    Watch the video without subtitles.

2.    Do all the Exercises.

3.    Come back to the page.

4.    Watch the video with English Subtitles. Use the Pause button. People speak fast!

5.    After this practice the students can video themselves with their phones, in their neighborhoods and interview people/or in the unit. (but less likely to find different nationalities)

6.    Present their products in the class.

7.    Enjoy!

 

2.Describe the Level of students

A heterogeneous class, Students take different exams

3 . Describe the activity in your own words

Beginning - Students will watch the video

Topic:  Creating a question and answer dialog related to a phone call 

Opening- Sitting in a circle, everyone asks a question, and directs the question to whoever is on his right. Those who are on the right have to answer the question and then have to ask a question, everyone has to ask one question once and answer it once.

Body - students divide into pairs and each pair should write a dialogue between them using cards.

Close- Each pair displays the dialog they have written

4.Describe how much time should be allocated for the activity.

The lesson will take about 45 minutes.

Beginning- 10 minutes to watch the movie

Opening-10 minutes.  Body- 20 minutes. Close –5 minutes

5.Describe a Pre activity, meaning what scaffolding is required to prepare the students for the activity.

Before the activity the students will learn Vocabulary and Practice vocabulary

Worksheets - A work page with a bank of words  , The student should choose the appropriate words from the bank of words
For example:

"Hello"

" I would like to speak to …"
"i'm calling from"...
I'm calling on behalf of.."
"where are you calling from.."