guilty secrets
Upper-intermediate level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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The aim here is to improve the students’ ability to listen for gist and specific information, and to understand referencing and key phrases.
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide an opportunity for Ss to share their opinion about the guilty secrets and share their story.
Procedure (45 minutes)
T first elicits the meaning of 'guilty secrets' . T tells Ss about her guilty secret to contextualize the term. T shows Ss some photos related to the following listening track. Ss try to guess the guilty secrets in groups. T asks Ss to share some of them with the class.
T teaches some blocking words in the listening track.
T asks the Ss to read the statements and listen to the recording and find out why they are wrong. Ss share their answers with their partners.
T ask students to read the questions first and then listen to the recording . T checks the answers with the whole class. T shows Ss some phrases and asks Ss to say which story do they refer to.
T Provide Ss with some questions to discuss in groups. (slide 11)