For upper-intermediate students

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For upper-intermediate students

Lesson Plan

Materials:

- A picture on the topic Family and Money.

- New Headway Upper-Intermediate Student’s Book. Texts «People and their Money» (pp. 102-104).

- Assessment rubric.

Lesson objectives:

1. Students will actively use 10 idioms on the topic Family and Money (to roll in money, to make ends meet, to be well off, to live in the lap of luxury, to be hard up, to penny-pinch, to buy food in bulk, to live on a shoestring, to have a business that is doing a roaring trade, to tighten one’s belt).

2. Students will be able to speak about money problems in a family, their attitude to money and how they save it or spend it using the idioms.

Warm-up and Objective Discussion

Teacher talk: Hello, everybody! Today we are still speaking about families. I've got a picture for you (shows the picture to the students and asks students to say what they can see in the picture):

Teacher talk: Right, there is a family in the picture – a father and two children. Last time we spoke about problems a family can have. What are they? (Students give answers). Yes, misunderstanding, generation gap, bad living conditions, money problems, So, what kind of problem can this family possibly have? (Students give answers). Yes, the father of the family is unhappy as he had to pay for everything his children wanted! Maybe he is hard up now!

By the way, did you notice an idiom in the last sentence? What was it? Hard up – to have little money. What is an idiom? Yes, a phrase, the meaning of which cannot be guessed through the meaning of separate words. Do you know any idioms? Today our goal is to learn idioms to speak about money and your attitude to it, about money in the family. You need idioms to understand native speakers and to sound more like a native speaker. All the idioms are sure to appear in your final test,

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