Listening lesson
low level level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide gist and specific information practice and develop students' listening skills by introducing a listening audio for students.
Subsidiary Aims
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To integrate students'receptive skills and encourage their listening discrimination.
Procedure (36-45 minutes)
* The teacher activate students’ schema by showing them a penguin’s picture (pic1) to activate students’ schemata. “Do you know this animal’s name?” “Where do you think it lives?’’ “ Have you seen one before?” “How do you think it is different than other birds?” “From the title “lala penguin goes shopping to in japan” What do you expect to watch and what information you expect to listen to in the video?”
*pre-listening • The teacher then gives students the purpose of the listening task: • “You will watch a video and then will answer some questions concerning the video, take notes to help you gather general information about the topic” • • Activity 1: • * The teacher pre - teaches some vocabulary before playing the tape: • >Neighbor : person living next door. • *Antarctica: north icy pole. • * Yard: house garden. • Hose: long tube for watering.
Whilst listening: *listening for gist • The teacher plays the video for the first time • Then the teacher discusses the video with the students asking gist questions : “Why do you think Lala penguin is special than other penguins?” “Is it smart as people?” “what does it eat?” “why do all people love Lala?” “What does it do everyday?” “Do you think it is harmful?” *Activity 2 *Aim: listening for specific information ( to complete the text): Mode of interaction : T-S * The teacher plays the video again, hands out transcript of the audio with empty gaps; asking the students to fill in the gaps while listening.
*listening for details: Activity 3 Mode of interaction : T-S where the teacher gives instructions/ Then S where they answer the quiz alone / S-T while revising the answers. * The teacher shows the students a multiple choice quiz, then plays the video one more time and asks students to answer the quiz. (activity3) *The teacher then divides students into pairs to check their answer. To get a feedback
*post listening: Activity 4: Aim: to give free written practice to integrate between writing and information heard *mode of interaction: SS/ T-SS • The teacher divides students into pairs and asks them to write 3 facts about penguins learnt from the audio.and asks them to compare their work. •