English proficiency level: Intermediate
Theme: Loan Application
Language category of the study: Reading, listening, writing and speaking skills.
A) Warm up (5-10 minutes)
B) Development:
Activity #1 (15 minutes)
In this activity, the students will be asked to perform a vocabulary match, in which loan and bank-related terms will need to be matched to their proper definition (e.g. interest, cosigner, collateral, down payment). This assignment will be provided in the form of a worksheet that provides students with the many different terms they will need to know in order to understand the complexities of applying for a loan.
Activity #2 (15 minutes)
In this activity, the students work in groups of two in order to fill out a simplified, sample loan application worksheet. A filled-out loan application with the entries filled in will be provided, but the categories of each box will be left blank. Students must work together, using what they have learned and the worksheet in front of them, to discern which words fill in which section. In the end, the students should be able to identify which categories have been filled in by the loan applicant.
Activity #3 (15 minutes)
In this activity, a mock loan interview will be conducted. Students will be asked to come in one at a time, and talk with the teacher (who will impersonate a bank employee who is interviewing the student as they apply for a loan). Students can feel free to use whatever language or purpose they deem fit, feeling free to improvise whatever thing they want a loan for or why they need it. However, they must use at least five or more terms from the student worksheet in the course of the interview, or at least identify them and answer correctly when the instructor mentions them.
C) Closure (5 minutes)
After all three activities are over, instructor will gather the students inside the classroom again and have a reflective chat about their experiences. Teacher will provide clarification to confirm students’ understanding of the material and the situation involved, and end by asking each student in turn to identify the first thing they would get a loan for (not counting any loans they may already have out, based on their existing experiences).
