New lesson plan: Amazing but true!

Maher

Amazing but true! - LS Pre-Int level

Amazing but true!
LS Pre-Int level

Description

In this lesson, students will listen and react to a text about people with special abilities and identify the different body parts.

Materials

answer key

audio set

HO1

IWB

pictures

answer key

audio set

HO1

IWB

pictures

Main Aims

To provide gist and specific information listening practice using a text about special people in the context of amzing abilities

Subsidiary Aims

To provide fluency speaking practice in a conversation in the context of people with amazing abilities

Procedure (45-55 minutes)

Warmer/Lead-in (3-5 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

Show "Britain's Got Talent" logo and ask ss: Have you ever watched this tv show? / what's it about? Elicit the word "talent" (special ability). Ask ss: Do you know someone who has a special talent? (a friend / relative)

Pre-Listening (10-12 minutes) • To prepare students for the text and make it accessible

Show ss pictures of the four people mentioned in the text. Q: What can they do? Elicit/pre-teach the target vocabulary. (body parts / do calculations / fly a plane / bite / chew / twist)

While-Listening #1 (10-12 minutes) • To provide students with gist listening tasks

Explain to the ss that they are about to listen to a text about the people in the pictures. Explain that they need to listen and identify who is mentioned in each passage. Check instructions. Get feedback.

While-Listening #2 (14-16 minutes) • To provide students with more challenging detailed listening tasks

- Give ss HO1. Do act-A. Explain to the ss that they need to listen and write the appropriate name next to each fact. Play the recording twice if necessary. Get feedback. - Invite ss to do act-B. Ask ss to compare their answers. Give feedback by displaying the answers on IWB.

Post-Listening (8-10 minutes) • To provide with an opportunity to respond to the text and expand on what they've learned

- Invite ss to answer question C.1. Demo for the ss; "I think Michael has the most incredible ability because it is very rare." Ask ss to tell their opinion to each other in groups. Monitor. - Ask ss to tell each other about a person with an amazing ability. Explain that it could be someone they know, someone they've seen on tv or simply their favourite super hero character/figure.