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A1+ (Elementary) level

Description

In this lesson, students practice listening for gist and listening for detail and they also learn some vocabulary related with work/school-life balance. The lesson starts with discussing three pictures and it's followed by learning new vocabularies related to the topic and the students discuss the some sentences given to do more speaking earlier in the lesson. Students practice listening and at the production stage, students are given a questionnare.

Materials

Abc Board
Abc Matching Handout
Abc Pictures
Abc PPT
Abc Projector
Abc Slips of paper
Abc Questionannaire
Abc Soars, Liz&Joe (2011) New Headway Elementary Student’s book 4th edition, Oxford University Press
Abc Board
Abc Pictures
Abc PPT
Abc Projector
Abc Matching Handout

Main Aims

  • • To provide Ss with practice in listenning for gist, specific information and detail in the context of work-life balance

Subsidiary Aims

  • • To provide Ss with practice in speaking for fluency

Procedure

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

T- show three pictures showing different types of people after school. Ask them to choose which one best describes themselves and why and if they have a good school-life balance. Ss discuss the questions with their pairs.

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

T-introduce them 5 new word collocations and discuss with their pair if they know their meanings. Ss are given 5 pictures and 5 word collocations and they try to match the pictures with the words in groups of 3. (3 min) T-projects the correct answers on the board and ask CCqs to clarify their meanings. T-model some of the collocation and use back cha n drilling technique and drill the word collocations and show the stress. In this stage if there is enough time, T- gives HO1 to discuss the statement according to themselves with ther partners ( to get them to be more familiarize with the collocations).

While-Reading/Listening #1 (5 minutes) • To provide students with less challenging gist and specific information reading/listening tasks

T-show the picture of Dr Susan Hall and ask Ss what her job is. T- ask SS to look at the picture and the word collocations they have studied and try to guess in groups of 3 what she is going to talk about. Then T-play the audio and when it finishes, ask Ss to check if their predictions were correct and gives HO 2 and ask them to choose the best option.

While-Reading/Listening #2 (13 minutes) • To provide students with more challenging detailed, deduction and inference reading/listening tasks

T-give HO3 fill in the gaps questions are on it. Ss with their pairs read the question first and try to guess what can be written there. T-plays the audio twice and when it finishes, Ss check their answers with their friends first. While they are checking T-post the answers on the walls and get the Ss to stand up and check their answers and when they have their seats , T- asks for reason/ justification for the answer. If Ss still don't understand, show them the transcript and get them to find the answer.

Post-Reading/Listening (14 minutes) • To provide with an opportunity to respond to the text and expand on what they've learned

T-give the questionnare and Ss read the questions. T- shows an example to help the Ss and do the first one for SS T-ask Ss to work in groups of 3 and wirte wh- questions. After checking them, T-ask Ss to stand up and find their partner and ask those yes/no and Wh- questions to them and write their answers on the correct coloumn on the paper. Give them 3 minutes fot this. After they finish, they have their seats and with a different partner they discuss the information on the questionnare and score the friend that they have interviewed. * his/her school-life balance is very good * his/her school-life balance is good * his/her school-life balance is not good. T-elicits the SS whose school*life balance is not very good. T-ask Ss to work in groups of 3 and write advice for those poeple and they share their ideas on the board. If time. T- have a feedback/error correction session

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