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Lesson Title - Effective Interpersonal Communication

Area/Skill - ESL
LCP - D
Correlation to Framework
Standard: 56.00
Correlation to Framework
Benchmark: 56.02

Materials/Supplies

Overhead transparency of emotion picture

Pictures of famous/notorious people

Contributors & Organizations

1. Nadine Baumhardt HCDE
2. Rehana Hussain HCCS
3. Tanisha Hickman HCDE

Objective

Student will be able to communicate impressions, emotions, likes, and dislikes.

Vocabulary

excellent, superb, wonder, fantastic, deplorable, hateful, negative, diplomatic, controlling, frown, smile, grimace, cry, agitated

Text Books

none

Activity/Procedures

Put pictures of famous/notorious people on board.

Student says and writes on sentence strips opinion/feeling about that person.

Review "FANBOYS" in complex sentences.

Apply "FANBOYS" to student generated sentence strips.

Ex: President Bush is diplomatic, but Saddam Hussein is controlling.

Denzel Washington has classical features, and he is a fantastic actor.

Students select sentences for one or more pictures and creates "FANBOYS" sentence incorporating vocabulary words.

Students write sentences on transparency strips.

Share with classmates.

Evaluation/Assessment

Match emotions to pictures.

Write 5 or more complex sentences using FANBOYS.

Grammatical Focus

67.05 Write complex sentences in active voice.

Simple sentence, FANBOYS simple sentence.

F-for, A-and, N-nor, B-but, O-or, Y-yet, S-so.

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508 UsableNet Approved (v. 2.2)

 

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