IB English B TEXT TYPES SKILLS SUPPORT: Formal and Informal VOCAB LESSON

TEXT TYPES SKILLS SUPPORT VOCABULARY LESSON: Formal and Informal
(60 minutes)
This lesson supports the writing of all the required English B Text types.

Resources:

1. No-prep, ready-made SLIDESHOW
2. Resource Booklet

Lesson Outcome:
By the end of this lesson, your students will have learned 6 sets of 18 vocabulary words associated with formal and informal writing in these categories: contractions, FANBOYS and conjunctive adverbs, formal vocabulary, colloquial language, nominalised verbs and adjectives, and phrasal verbs. They will use the Pelmanism Game to try to remember the vocabulary and play another memory game to help retain the words encountered in the lesson. The ultimate goal of the lesson is to remember informal words and their formal counterparts.

Activities:

1. Activity 1: STARTER: to unscramble terms related to the categories featured in the rest of the lesson. Students will also match those terms with the correct definitions and identify which relates to the formal and which to the informal register. (15 minutes)
2. Activity 2: THE PELMANISM GAME: to use observation, inference, and memory skills to identify pairs of formal and informal counterparts. (30 minutes)
3. Activity 3: MEMORY TASK: to use observation and memory to link informal words with their formal counterparts. (10 minutes)
   PLENARY: to quiz one another on words encountered in the lesson. (5 minutes)
   HOMEWORK: To text one another: one sends an informal message; the other replies with its formal equivalent.

Apart from the need to print handouts and a few bits of admin, this lesson is NO-PREP, INSTANTLY-USABLE.
(You just need to run through the slideshow to familiarise yourself with the lesson elements.)