Hotels and Travel- Listening
Intermediate, A2 level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide specific information and detailed listening practice from a recording about a bad experience in a hotel.
Subsidiary Aims
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To give the SS speaking practice to help their spoken fluency.
Procedure (42-17 minutes)
-Have the OHP ready to project a picture about a hotel in Brighton. -Introduce the lesson by telling the SS my story about travelling. Ask the SS if they like to travel and if they like to stay in hotels. -Ex. 1 Project the picture of the hotel. Elicit any information SS can see. e.g. it’s a small family hotel, it looks old. Tell the SS where it is located and ask them if they would like to stay there. Elicit reasons.
-PW to get five things that could go wrong while staying at a hotel, or what makes a hotel bad. WCFB, write in the WB some of the ideas. -Before handing out the 1a worksheet, tell them that they will find in it more things that can go wrong in a hotel. Give them time to work in pairs and figure out the meaning of the words. -Get the FB by using the OHP to show them pictures. They have to tell you which of the things in their list match the pictures, clarifying the meaning using a visual aid. -Make some drilling and use the WB to show the spelling and the stress of the words.
-Ex. 2 Tell SS that they are going to listen a recording about a two people, Nicki and Gavin, which stayed in the hotel Brighton. This recording is a part of a radio programme, tell the SS that they have to use the list to tick ( ) the problems that Nicki and Gavin had in this hotel. -Listen -PW to check and get WCFB.
-Ex. 3 : Before handing out the 2a worksheet, tell the SS they will listen again to the recording, and they have to put the events of the story in order by writing numbers from 1 to 7 next to the sentences. -Listen -Form new groups -WK to check and get WCFB
-Ex.4 Get the SS to remember the story. Brainstorm key words and write them in the WB to help them. PW to try to retell the story. WCFB -If there is time, work in Ex. 5 PW to talk about what is the worst or the best hotel they have ever stayed in?