English Lesson Planner | Listening - sports stars and advertising (comparatives)

Mara Gerety

Listening - sports stars and advertising (comparatives) - Pre-Intermediate level

Listening - sports stars and advertising (comparatives)
Pre-Intermediate level

Description

In this lesson, students listen to a dialogue between marketing professionals about sports stars, and discuss their favorite and/or the most famous athletes in their countries, with the grammatical focus being on comparative forms.

Materials

New American Inside Out Pre-Intermediate, Kay and Jones, 2009, Macmillan, CD-ROM

New American Inside Out Pre-Intermediate, Kay and Jones, 2009, Macmillan, pg 42

New American Inside Out Pre-Intermediate, Kay and Jones, 2009, Macmillan, CD-ROM

New American Inside Out Pre-Intermediate, Kay and Jones, 2009, Macmillan, pg 42

Main Aims

To provide gist and detailed listening practice using a text about sports stars and advertising in the context of celebrities

Subsidiary Aims

To provide practice of comparatives in the context of sports celebrities

Procedure (30-41 minutes)

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

Introduce topic of sports and celebrities, ask students to think about who are some famous athletes in their home country or athletes they personally like, then tell their partner about it. I will be sitting down for this!

Prediction and Gist Listening (3-5 minutes) • To prepare students for the text and make it accessible

Students first look at the row of sports stars and dates of birth at the top of the lesson page and, working in pairs, guess which athlete has which birthday. I play the first short listening exercise and they check their answers.

Pre-teach Vocabulary (5-6 minutes) • To prepare students for the text and make it accessible

Review/pre-teach the following words/phrases appearing in the longer dialogue: good-looking, "the face of" something, champion, get in touch with someone.

Listening #1 - Gist (3-5 minutes) • To provide students with less challenging gist and specific information reading/listening tasks

Explain the task before hitting play: listen for the general idea, and find out who the advertisers choose to be "the face of" their new energy drink.

Listening #2 - Detailed (8-10 minutes) • To provide students with more challenging detailed, deduction and inference reading/listening tasks

Explain the task before pressing play: students work alone to complete the sentences in the workbook, using the comparative. Pair check and feedback.

Freer Practice - Fluency (8-10 minutes) • To provide with an opportunity to respond to the text and expand on what they've learned

Students work in pairs, list famous sports stars in their countries and complete some of the sentences from exercise 2 with those names. (Not too much of that.) They choose one athlete from their list to advertise a new sports car, present it to the class and explain why they chose him or her.