Main Aims

By the end of this session: -

A- Ss will have practiced obligations and permissions in the present in the context of rules.
B- Ss will have practiced obligations and permissions in the past in the context of rules.
C- Ss will have practiced linking words in the context of rules.

Subsidiary Aims

By the end of the lesson: -

1A- Ss will have practiced listening for gist in the context of rules in the text of annoying rules.
2A- Ss will have practiced speaking for accuracy in the context of rules.
1B- Ss will have practiced reading for gist in the context of rules in the text of crime and punishment.
2B- Ss will have practiced speaking for accuracy in the context of rules.
1C- Ss will have practiced reading for gist in the context of rules in the text of exclusive clubs.
2C- Ss will have practiced speaking for accuracy in the context of rules.

Anticipated Problems & Solutions:

Problems

1A- Ss might think that /mustn’t/ and /don’t have to/ have the same meaning because /must/ and /have to/ have
very similar meanings.

2A- The TL might be challenging somewhat for the Ss.

Solutions

1A- T tells them that /mustn’t/ means /can’t/ which is an obligation not to do something (There’s no choice.).
/don’t have to/ means (It’s not necessary to do it, but there’s a choice.

2A- T provides them with a controlled and a less-controlled activities.

Materials

- Cutting edge, 3rd edition, Intermediate, Students’ book, P.106, 107, 108, 109, 111.
-Cutting Edge, 3rd edition, Intermediate, Workbook, p.64.
-Cutting Edge, 3rd edition, Intermediate, Extra activities, (11A)
- Cutting Edge, 3rd edition, Intermediate, Recordings, U11R1.
Other materials: -
● Attached files.

Signs Interaction patterns Abbreviations

→Instructions S → individual work PPT → PowerPoint Presentation

● ICQs PW → pair wok T → teacher

→ Concept checking questions GW → group of three Ss → students

L.A. → Language Analysis sheet

TW → team work
● CCQs
S - Ss → one student speaking to the
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Blue highlighter → general note whole class TL → Target Language

Yellow highlighter →important note S - Ss - T → one student speaking to the PTV → Pre-Teaching Vocabulary
whole class and the teacher
Red highlighter → critical note ECT → Error Correction Technique

OCFD → Open Class Feedback

AK → Answer Key

Qs → Questions

WB → White Board

CECDW → Context, Elicitation, CCQs,

Drilling, Writing

SSB → Students’ book

R → Recording

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 Interaction
Stage Procedure (Obligations and permissions in the present) TBP Materials Time Comments
Pattern
Warmer/Lead-in ● Ask them: “Do you like getting orders and rules?” and invite comments.
To set lesson context
and engage students Ex 1 p.106

Instructions

● Tell them: “Here, there’re eight places. In each place, there’re rules that are related to it.”
● Tell them” “What I need you to do is to think of at least one rule that you’d find in each place.”

ICQs Ss
SSB p.106 PW 5
✔ How many rules should you get? (8) OCFD

After five minutes

● Tell them” “If you haven’t found rules for all of the places, no problems as you can think of the
rest of the rules with your partner.”
● Tell them: “Check the answers with your partners.”
● Check the answers with them.

Exposure Ex 2 p.106 SSB p.106 Ss 5

To ensure SS are
comfortable with the Instructions Recording PW
task before exploiting Remember: (Don’t forget to chest the exercise while giving instructions.) U11R1 OCFD
it for language.
● Tell them: “Now, we’ll listen to five people complaining about a specific rule.”.

● Tell them: “Listen and answer Qs 2 p.106.”.

Note: (Play the recording again if they need to listen one more time.)
After listening
● Tell them: “Now, check the answers with your partners.”.

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 ● Check the answers with them.

AK:

Highlight Ex 1 p.107 Ss
To highlight the S-S
target language in Instructions
Ss - T
context.
● Ask them: “How many sentences in ex 1 p.107?”. (4)

● Tell them: “These four sentences express four photos of the photos on p.106, 107.”

● Tell them” “What I need you to do is to match the sentence with the photos and cross
out the incorrect sentence.”.
ICQs
● Are we crossing the sentences only? (N)

● Are we matching the sentences to the photos only? (N) SSB

5
P.79 ex 2
● Are we crossing out the correct or the incorrect sentence? (Incorrect)

After three minutes

● Tell them: “Now, check the answers with your partners.”.

● Check the answers with them.

AK:

Language Grammar box p.107 SSB p. 107 Ss 10

Clarification
To provide
Instructions PW

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 clarification of
● Tell them: “How many categories in the grammar box?”. (6)
meaning (usage),
pronunciation, form
● Tell them: “Match the bold words in ex 1 to the categories in the grammar box.”.
of the target
language. ICQs

✔ Are you matching the bold or the light words? (Bold)

After they finish (five minutes max)

● Tell them: “Now, check the answers with your partners.”.

OCFD
● Check the answers with them.

AK:

● Drill the modal verbs in the marker sentences chorally, groups and individually.

● Write the obligation and permission modal verbs on the board.

Controlled practice Ex 2 p.107 SSB p.107 Ss 5

To practice an
Instructions Attached PW
opportunity for Ss to
use the target file ex1 OCFD
✔ Tell them: “Complete the sentences with a suitable modal verb to make them true for
language in
controlled practice. your country.”.
ICQs
✔ Are you answering the sentences generally or making them true for your country?
(Making them true for my country.)
After they finish. (Five minutes max.)
● Tell them: “Now, check the answers with your partners.”.

● Check the answers with them.

AK:

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 Ex1 attached file
● Tell them: “Complete the sentences with the words in the box.”.

After they finish. (Five minutes max.)

● Tell them: “Now, check the answers with your partners.”.

● Check the answers with them.

AK: (Should, aren’t allowed, are allowed, can’t, ought, don’t have, mustn’t, can, must)
Freer oral practice Extra activities (11A) (Should be prepared before the class.) Extra TW 10
To practice an
opportunity for Ss to
Instructions activities OCFD
use the target Remember: (You have to model while giving the instructions.), (Invite some Ss to help you.) 11A
language in freer
● Tell them: “We’re going to be divided into groups of three. I’m going to give each group a set
practice.
of cards BUT the cards will be faced down so you don’t have the ability to see what’s in the
card. Each member of each team has a turn to pick a card, he has to say two rules that are set
in this place. Other team members have to guess the place. The faster who gets the place first
gets a point.”
ICQs

✔ Are you facing up the cards? (N)

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 ✔ Are you saying the place or the rules related to the place? (The rules)

● Divide them in groups of three.

● Give each group a set of cards.

● Run the activity, monitor, take notes, help if needed.

Remember: (If one group doesn’t work the activity well, microteach them.) BUT (If all the groups don’t
work the activity well, stop the activity and re-explain it again.)
After they finish the cards (10 minutes max.)

● Ask them about the winner in each team.

● Elicit some rules in some places. (You don’t have to check all the rules in all the places.)
Error Correction Ss
Technique ● Ask them to correct the errors from the sentences on the board and write them
To praise good use of in their papers. S–S
the target language Ss – T
and to correct errors ● Ask them to check the answers with their partners. T - Ss
WB 5
in the target language
use. ● Check the right answers with them.

● Praise them for using the target language of the lesson.

Interaction
Stage Procedure (Obligations and permissions in the past) TBP Materials Time Comments
Pattern
Smooth transition
● Ask them about the hardest rules they’ve ever heard of.
To guide Ss smoothly
from the previous OCFD 2
lesson to the next
one.
Exposure Ex 1 p.111 SSB p.111 T - Ss 5
To ensure SS are
comfortable with the Instructions
task before exploiting
● Tell them: “Read the text and answer Qs in ex 1 p.111.”.
it for language.

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 After they finish (Three minutes max)
● Tell them: “Now, check the answers with your partners.”.

● Check the answers with them.

AK:

Highlight Ex 2 p.111
To highlight the
target language in Instructions
context.
● Tell them: “Complete the text with the words in the box.”.

After they finish (Three minutes max)

● Tell them: “Now, check the answers with your partners.”. Ss
SSB
PW 5
P.111 OCFD
● Check the answers with them.

AK:

Language Grammar box p.111 SSB 10

Clarification Ss
To provide Instructions P.111
PW
clarification of OCFD
meaning (usage),
● Tell them: “Find the past forms of the modal verbs in the grammar box.”.
pronunciation, form
of the target
After they finish (Three minutes max)
language.
● Tell them: “Now, check the answers with your partners.”.

● Check the answers with them.

AK:

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 ● Drill the past modal verbs in sentences chorally, groups, and individually.

● Write the form of the past modal verbs in the substitutional table.
Controlled practice Ex 1 p.111
To practice an
opportunity for Ss to Instructions
use the target
language in ● Tell them: “Complete the descriptions with the past form of a verb from the grammar
controlled practice. box.”.
After they finish (Five minutes max) SSB
P.80, 81 Ss
● Tell them: “Now, check the answers with your partners.”. PW 5
U8R5 OCFD
● Check the answers with them.

AK:

Freer oral practice SSB P.80 PW 10

To practice an ● Write the words (poor/people, women/girls, children, criminals, everyone) on the OCFD
opportunity for Ss to board.
use the target
language in freer ● Tell them: “You have two minutes to think of the rules were there during the English
practice.
occupation in Egypt.”.
Two minutes later
● Tell them: “Discuss with your partner the rules. You have to come up with two rules
per each category.”.
● Run the activity, monitor, take notes, help if needed.

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 ● Elicit some rules from them.
Error Correction Ss
Technique ● Ask them to correct the errors from the sentences on the board and write them
To praise good use of in their papers. S–S
the target language Ss – T
and to correct errors ● Ask them to check the answers with their partners. T - Ss 5
in the target language
use. ● Check the right answers with them.

● Praise them for using the target language of the lesson.

Interaction
Stage Procedure ((Linking words)) TBP Materials Time Comments
Pattern
Warmer/Lead-in ● Ask them: “What do you think of the rules that are set in a club?” and invite comments. Ss
To set lesson context PW
and engage students Ex 1 p.108 OCFD
Instructions SSB p.108 5
● Tell them: “Discuss with your partner the Qs in ex 1 p.108.”.
● Check their ideas about the rules of a club.

Exposure
To ensure SS are ● Tell them: “You’re going to read about three unusual societies. Read the article and
comfortable with the answer Qs 2 p.108”.
task before exploiting
it for language. After they finish (Five minutes max)
● Tell them: “Now, check the answers with your partners.”. Ss
SSB p.108 PW 5
● Check the answers with them. OCFD
AK:

Highlight Ex 1 p.109 SSB p.109 Ss 5

To highlight the
target language in Instructions
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 context.
● Ask them: “How many linkers are there in the box?” (9)

● Tell them: “Underline these words from the article above.”.

Language Ex 2 p.109
Clarification
To provide Instructions
clarification of
meaning (usage),
● While chesting the exercise, tell them: “Some of these linkers have the same meaning
pronunciation, form as (and, but, so).
of the target
language. ● Tell them: “What I need you to do is to match the suitable linker to its meaning.”.

After they finish (Three minutes max)

Ss
● Tell them: “Now, check the answers with your partners.”. SSB .109
PW 10
LA sheet
● Write (And, but, so) on the board, and elicit the linkers. OCFD.

AK:

● Drill the full sentences that include the linkers chorally, groups, and individually.

● Write the form in the substitutional table.

Controlled practice Ex 3 p.109 SSB .109 Ss 5
To practice an
Instructions (Modelling) PW
opportunity for Ss to
use the target OCFD.
● Write the answered sentence on the board without the answers.
language in
controlled practice.
● Elicit two different linkers to complete the examples.

● Tell them: “Now, it’s your turn to do the same.”

● Check the answers with them.

AK:

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Freer oral practice Ex b p.108
To practice an
opportunity for Ss to Instructions
use the target PW
● Tell them: “Discuss with your partner the Qs in ex b. Remember to use linkers while SSB. 108 10
language in freer
practice. OCFD.
speaking”.
● Check their ideas.
Error Correction Ss
Technique ● Ask them to correct the errors from the sentences on the board and write them
To praise good use in their papers. S–S
of the target Ss – T
language and to ● Ask them to check the answers with their partners. T - Ss
WB 5
correct errors in the
target language use. ● Check the right answers with them.

● Praise them for using the target language of the lesson.

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