Advanced Beginning TIVSOL Lesson Plan Phone exercise

Advanced Beginning TIVSOL Lesson Plan, Phone exercise:

Which Restaurants Plan to be Open During Tisha B'Av (SUNDAY, AUGUST 3rd) or Afterwards?

Objective: To develop and reinforce conversational skills in an advanced beginning Hebrew as a Foreign Language class of 8 to 12 students.

To learn Israeli cultural practices of holiday observances that affect store hours.
To practice carrying on a phone conversation with limited instructor assistance for obtaining responses to two questions.
To practice presenting material to the class.
To produce a chart to take home to use when travelling to Israel at this time next year.

Time: 1.5 hours

The activities presented here will reinforce the concepts from a previous lesson of: days of the week; telling time; differentiating pronunciation of Tesha and Tsha .... ; planning a conversation (10-15 minutes) The activities presented here will introduce the conversational paradigm for asking a store its planned hours for a particular day (15 minutes) The activities here will give the students a chance to work in pairs to plan a conversation, conduct a spontaneous(1 O minutes), constrained conversation (25 minutes) ; record information (5 - 1 O minutes); present findings to the class (15 minutes)

Media: Students will bring a cell phone to class or arrange to share one.

Hand out #1 : This can go on the whiteboard and might inspire its own lesson :)

Hebrew version from hebcal.com

Hand out #2: List of stores with two possible headers--Will your restaurant be open on the 9th of Av? If not, do you plan to open after the fast?

Pedagogical goals: To increase confidence in speaking and in using a planned conversation. To grasp the importance of choosing words that are more understandable over the telephone and to use the telephone in a guided environment. To add an additional conversational paradigm to the students' inventory.

Procedure: Hand out color-coded items so that native speakers of the same language do not have the same color.

Using Handouts #1 and #2, identify upcoming course days and holidays; engage students in call and response; engage students in individual response; have students ask each other. Explain the notion that store hours vary. Group students in pairs based on the color coded items OR have a more experience class self- assign. I will conduct a spontaneous phone conversation in front of the class.

Note 1: to prevent בתול זמן, be honest about the impetus for the call by indicating that your Hebrew class is planning for a future visit.

Note 2: It may be possible to start the exercise online. In that case all you have to do is confirm with the store that the hours listed on the webpage are correct.

Note 3: It's often helpful to rehearse possible prompte from whatever voicemail menu that you will encounter.

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Walk around room assisting students in writing up their planned conversation. Have the most confident pair conduct a spontaneous phone conversation for the class Walk around room assisting students in conducting a phone dialogue Make sure that students are recording their answers and write up a grid on the board.

Have the students come to the front of the class to record their answers (this can be done en masse or one pair at a time, depending on the time remaining in class) Have the students present their findings

Closing activity: Post the finished product to the Facebook page or a shared Google document.