TP 5: Listening - Guilty Secrets
Upper Intermediate level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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For students to practice listening for gist in the context of a radio talk show in which three people share secrets.
Subsidiary Aims
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For students to become familiar with more informal vocabulary related to people sharing their guilty secrets.
Procedure (44-50 minutes)
-T shares a guilty secret through a picture story.
-Pre-teach vocab, ECDWS. Focus more on vocab that Ss struggle with. -T shows Ss 3 pictures for the 3 stories in the Listening task. -Ss predict what what happens in each story by looking at the pictures. -Ss discuss predictions in pairs.
-Ss listen to the 7 minute Listening task. -T stops in between each story. -Ss discuss as a whole group if their predictions were true.
-Ss listen again to the 7 minute Listening task. -T stops between each story and elicits answers about the specific information Ss are listening for. -T has AK available and only covers problem areas. Flexi Stage: -Vocabulary/Expressions- Students match the vocabulary to the pictures from the stories. -Ss discuss answers in pairs. - T shows AK and gives FB.
-T asks Ss about their thoughts on the stories. -Ss shares answers with the whole group. -T asks students what the T's guilty secret is. -Ss respond with answers about T's guilty secret. -T asks Ss to think about their guilty secret and share with 2 others in the break out rooms. -T asks Ss who has the most guilty secret. -Ss share what they learned about their classmates.