Doaa Hussien Hassan Ayesh Doaa Hussien Hassan Ayesh

Listening skills
Grade 8 level

Description

In this lesson , students will practise to read for gist , listen for specific information , narrate their bad travel experiences, summarize other's travel experience , activate their schema through an open discussion at the beginning of the sesssion of someone who is a having a terrible time in his flight , review some words and phrases about accidents and disasters.

Materials

Abc Students book
Abc Smart board
Abc Picture of a traveller
Abc Students' copybooks
Abc Pens
Abc Speakers
Abc Audio C.D. recording

Main Aims

  • To provide specific information listening practice using a text about listening practice of traveller's bad experiences.

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide fluency and accuracy speaking practice in a personal travel experience.
  • To provide process and product writing practice of narrating the man on the recording experience from a different prespective
  • To provide gist and scan reading practice using a text about a bad holiday experience.
  • To provide review of of holiday bad experiences .
  • To activate Ss' schema of words and phrases .
  • To activate Ss' schema of their travel experiences.
  • To provide specific information listening practice using a text about of travel experiences.

Procedure

Warmer/Lead-in (3-5 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

Teacher will present a picture of a traveller's bad experience during a flight and will start asking Ss questions: Do you think he is enjoying the flight? Describe his feelings, Describe the man sitting infront of him in one word, What about the other passengers,do you think they are enjoying their flight? How would you feel if you were in that traveller's place and have you ever had such a bad experience? Teacher will elicit Ss answers and let them expect what the topic they are going to listen to is about.(bad travelling experiences)

Pre-Reading/Listening (10-12 minutes) • To prepare students for the text and make it accessible

Teacher will divide Ss into groups and ask them to read the text for gist on page 28 and and answer the questions, then scan the same text to justify their answers , then the teacher will elicit their answers and give his feedback. Teacher will ask Ss to work in groups and try to figure out the meanings of the phrases and words in exercises 2 and 4 as they have already been covered before in the previous lessons , then check their answers by looking up for these words/phrases at the word list at the back of their books.

While-Reading/Listening #1 (10-12 minutes) • To provide students with less challenging specific information listening tasks (multiple matching)

Teacher will ask Ss to read the statements A-H , listen to words and phrases that mean the same as this will help match each speaker to what they said, them play the recording and Ss individually listen and complete the task (2 -page 28) Teacher will elicit Ss' answers.

While-Reading/Listening #2 (14-16 minutes) • To provide students with more challenging specific information listening tasks.(True or False statements)

Teacher will ask Ss to read statements from 1-10 and draw their attention that they will hear the story of a man called Toby who got caught in a tsaunami, then teacher will play the recording and Ss work individually and complete the task (4-page 28) . Teacher will check their answers.

Post-Reading/Listening (8-10 minutes) • To provide with an opportunity to respond to the text and expand on what they've learned

Teacher will ask Ss to narrate a travel experience of their own to the class.(speaking activity), then he will ask Ss to work in pairs and write a summary of Toby's experience as if it was a news article , then present it to the whole class. Teacher ,meanwhile , will monitor and scaffold Ss.

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