PREVIOUSLY: In Unit
11.3; we discussed about ways of studying and teaching the sub topic “Writing descriptive compositions/essays” in Form Three.
In
This Unit 11.4; we will discuss how to study and teach the sub topic “Seeking and giving advice” in Form Four.
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TOPIC’S INFORMATION
Main Topic: SPEAKING USING APPROPRIATE LANGUAGE CONTENT
AND STYLE
Sub topic: Seeking and giving advice
Periods per sub topic: 14
Class: Form Four.
DESCRIPTION
OF THE SUB TOPIC.
This sub topic intends to deal
with how people ask/seek and give advice in English language.
We are faced by various
problems, conflicts, misunderstanding, confusions and dilemmas every day in our
life. These things provide us with the chance to find or ask for advice for our
problems and others are in the position to give us advice on our problems. We
can also advise others when they are in trouble with something.
SPECIFIC
OBJECTIVE OF THE LESSON.
By the end of the allocated 14
periods, the student should be able to give advice using appropriate language.
TEACHING
AND LEARNING PROCEDURES, ACTIVITIES AND GAMES
- Step One: Brainstorming the sub topic with
students.
A teacher introduces
the students to the sub topic by brainstorming with them on various aspects
which are going to be covered. Ask students if they have ever been given an
advice and on which issue. Also ask them if they have an experiencing of giving
someone an advice. Record their responses on the board.
- Step Two: Introducing a Dialogue text on
Giving Advice.
A teacher writes a text on seeking and giving
advice on the blackboard or supplies it to students if it is available in
handouts. The text should at least be in dialogue format.
THE
TEXT ON SEEKING AND GIVING ADVICE
My
Headache
LILIAN: Good morning,
Batuli.
BATULI: Good morning,
Lilian. Why are you touching your head?
LILIAN: I'm suffering from
a terrible headache.
BATULI: I'm so sorry my
friend.
LILIAN: Thanks. What
do you think I should do?
BATULI: Why
don't you drink more water? Water is good for the headache.
LILIAN: I've been
drinking so much water but it is still aching very much!
BATULI: What
about Panadol? Have you taken them?
LILIAN: No. But I take
them and they are still not helpful. It's really confusing me. What's
your advice on this?
BATULI: You should have a
rest. Don't you think so?
LILIAN: Yes, I think so.
But do
you think I should seek more advanced medications on this?
BATULI: Yes, of course. I
would go and see a doctor if I were you.
LILIAN: Thank you for your
advice, Batuli.
BATULI: You are welcome!
LILIAN: Bye!
BATULI: Bye!
NOTE: The italicized words
are expressions used when seeking or giving advice.
- Step Three:
Reading the dialogue aloud and answering Comprehension questions.
After giving out
this model text, the teacher and students to read aloud a dialogue. The dialogues
should be on seeking and giving advice like the model presented by the teacher.
After reading the dialogue aloud, the teacher can provide some comprehension
questions to students to test their understanding of the structures and patterns
used as well as checking their understanding of the content of the text itself.
Sample Comprehension Questions:
From the model text
above, the following can be some comprehension questions from it:
What is Lilian suffering
from?..........................................
What is Batuli’s first advice to Lilian? ………………….
What is Batuli’s second advice to
Lilian?..........................
Is Lilian happy with her problem?
Why?..........................
What is Batuli’s last advice to
Lilian?...............................
- Step Four:
Seeking and Giving Advice Practice in Pairs.
The teacher to
provide students situations for which they should be in pairs and develop a
dialogue on seeking and giving advice.
Ask students to
form pairs. One of the students in the pairs, probably Student A, should state his/her basic problem and ask for advice
from another student. The following are some of the basic problems:
I have stomach ache, what should I do?
My father is very cruel, what should I do?
I need money, what should I do?
The other student, Student B, who is giving advice should
start as follows:
You should…………
You must …………..
You have to ………..
You can …………….
If I were you, I could…….
- Step Five: Participating in role playing
the dialogues.
In this step,
students have to take turns to role play their dialogues. This is done as
follows:
Take a student and
let him explain his problem. Put him in the centre and allow others to give him
advice by using the patterns you have taught them. You can form groups and let
them compete. In this case, students will be role playing as seekers of advice
and as advisers.
The student at the
centre can have the problem like this: ‘I failed my last exams, what should I do?’,
then the other students surrounding him/her can each of them provide his/her
advice to him/her. This is also a good speaking and listening task to students.
- Step Six: Reading texts on seeking and
giving advice.
For reinforcement,
the teacher to instruct students to read on their own identified texts on a
variety of issues including Suffering from a disease, how to take care of
HIV/AIDS patients, drought, soil erosion, and other issues. These texts to be
read by students should be carefully selected by the teacher so that they
contain a problem or problems. The problem identified will be used by students
when they discuss how to give advice about the problem they have found in the
text or texts. A teacher should arrange students in the manageable divisions that
suit him or her. Even the extracts from the literary works can be used to read
and solve the various problems of the characters in the particular work of art.
REFLECTION
Ask students to mention some
reasons for asking an advice, that's, why people ask for an advice.
Ask them where else or on
which situations they can ask for an advice in the society.
Emphasize to the students that
giving and seeking advice are common behavior in our societies.
ASSESSMENT
To give students group
assignments where they can write their own texts on giving and seeking advice
according to the topic/issues or situations they have chosen. After, writing
the assignments, they can present it in the class by roleplaying the dialogue
text as a group. The other students to listen them very carefully and observe
them.
SUMMARY/CONCLUSION
The sub topic is about a
common experience in our societies. At the conclusion of this topic, a teacher
can summarize main points of the topic like importance of seeking advice for
our problems and the need to give advice to those who ask us to do so. Because
these are common experiences, it therefore a good idea to understand the skills
of giving advice in our communities.
Some auxiliaries used in
seeking and giving advice have varying degree of importance. For example,
Can, could,
and may
means something is possible with 50%
Should and ought
to means something should be implemented by 80%
Must and have
to means something should be taken seriously by 100%
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