TP2 - Listening - Work and Studies - Elaine Yalcin
Pre-intermediate level
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide Ss with practice in listening for gist, specific information and detail in the context of lifelong learning
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide Ss with review and practice of vocabulary related to work and studies
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To provide Ss with practice speaking for fluency in the context of work and studies
Procedure (38-51 minutes)
- Re-introduce self and greet Ss. - Project the images of the ex1 on the board. Ask Ss about the pictures. Elicit from the Ss some answers. - Project the chart image on the board (HO1) Instruct Ss. Ask two Ss to demonstrate the exercise. PW - T gives Ss HO1 and they answer the chart. General w/c FB
- Brainstorm the word: studies. Elicit some ideas from the students. Write them on the board. - PW - T projects exercise 7a on the board - (elicit the meaning before giving the HO) and gives the HO2. Duration: around 3 minutes. *Monitoring: Don't interfere but write down the mistakes from the Ss for Error Correction at the end of the lesson. w/c FB - elicit the answer from the students, DRILL each vocabulary and MARK the STRESS on the board. T gives Ss a written record of the vocabulary (with marked stress and examples) to take home - HO3
- Set the context of the listening T writes on the board 'Lifelong Learning' Elicit ideas of meaning from the Ss. - Based on ex2 - T draws a timeline on the board and tells that in the past people usually, after finishing studies, just started working and that was it. Now things are changing. T tells a personal anecdote about her father, that after working for 15 years went back to the University for a degree in P.E. - T asks Ss: why do you think he did it? Why do people want to continue learning? w/c FB - Elicit some answers from Ss.
- T introduces the characters: Luis, Pierre, and Margaret. T instructs and gives the HO3. - listening ex. 3 - SOLO - PW - Ss check their answers w/c FB - elicit answers from the Ss.
- Ex 4a - Instruct and ask Ss to try to answer in PW (duration: 3 minutes) Play again the listening and check the answers together with the Ss.
- T remembers the anecdote of her father to the Ss: he worked and was a university student at the same time. - T projects the HO5 on the board: Find someone who studies English at ITI and... Ss go around the classroom trying to find Ss who fulfill the statements. Duration: 2/3 minutes. Monitoring: don't interrupt Ss. Write down their possible mistakes to error correction. w/c FB
-T writes down some good language and some errors that were heard while monitoring. Elicit the correct version from the Ss.