Language focus:
1. Using the imperatives to give simple instructions.
Language skills:
1. Locate specific information in response to simple instruction.
2. Using modeled phrases to communicate with each other.
Materials:
Tape. Recorder. Pictures.
I. Pre-task preparation:
1. Show the picture of the red light and say it.
Repeat and ask the students to follow you. Ask:
If you see the red light, what should you do?
Say: stop several times so that the students could follow you.
2. Repeat step 1 with : yellow light and wait, green light, and go.
3. Tell the students that when you say : go they should run out on the spot. When you say : stop, they should stand still. When you say : wait, they should be ready to move.
II. While-task procedure:
1. Say: Let’s play a game. Let three students to come to the front to help you demonstrate. Tell them to stand in a row facing you.
2. Explain that you are going to show them pictures of traffic lights. When they see the red light, they should say : read light, stop, stop, stop! and stand on the spot.