In the neighborhood
B1 level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide gist and detailed listening practice using a recording script about In the neighborhood in the context of neighborhood problems
Subsidiary Aims
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To give students the opportunity to practice their TL and personalize the topic through speaking in order to practice their fluency.
Procedure (29-45 minutes)
At this stage, I will start the class with some photos of neighborhood problems showing them on the projector in order to active Ss' existing knowledge of the topic and I will ask the students "what do you think of these photos", they will be asked to share their opinions with their group. Then, I will have some feedback answers from them.
I will start the lesson with a personal story about my friend who lives in an area of Istanbul, his area is noisy, has a lot of bars and no parks. this story will encourage the students to predict more about today's topic, after telling the story, I will ask the students "what do we called the area that we live in" after getting the right answer. I will start the while listening tasks.
At this stage my main aim is listening for gist, so I will tell the students, I will give them a handout about listening task in order to listen for one time and put the picture A-E in order according to what the five people say about their neighbors and they will answer individually. I will ICQ. After listening they will check their answers with their peer. While they are checking, I will show the answers on the WB and tell them to compare them.
At this stage my main aim is listening for detail. I will tell them that I will give them another listening task in order to answer the questions in HO that I will give it to them before they will listen to it. after I give them the HO, they read the questions for 1 min. I will ICQ. Then I will pass the HO to the students wait for a minute and then I will play the recording for one time, after they listen to it, I will give them 30 seconds then I will play it again and after they listen to the script , I will tell them to check their answers with their peer. While they are checking the answers I will show the answers on the WB.
I will start at this stage with a question, but before of that, I will explain the meaning of pollution and rubbish then I will ask the students to think about the problems in their neighborhood and make 4 sentences using too much, too many, (not) enough and they are going to use the words/phrases from the box. After I tell them about the question, I will show it on the board in case they forget it then I will tell them to write their ideas individually. I will ICQ. Then I will give copy of the box include the words. After that, I will ask them to compare their answer with their group and ask each other what are the three biggest problems in their neighborhood and I will monitor them while they are talking with their group. Finally, I will give them a question "what are the solutions for these problems" and if I enough time, I will correct the problems that I heard during the monitoring of the speaking activities.