TP 6a
A1 level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide gist and specific information listening practice using a text about an old man's youth in the context of past times
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide fluency speaking practice in a discussion in the context of past times
Procedure (32-53 minutes)
The task during this stage is to match the words from the quiz with their meanings. Teacher gives students handouts. Students work in groups of 3-4. Teacher gives a short instruction about the task and then students try to match the words their meanings. They share their ideas with other group.Teacher gives FB in the end.
Students work in groups during this stage to answer the questions in a quiz.. First of all, teacher groups the students and gives instructions. There are 10 questions in the quiz. Each question is projected onto the board one by one. Each group tries to answer the questions correctly in a limited time. Each question has to be answered in 30 seconds. The group which has more correct answers will be the winner.
Students talk about the picture in this stage of the lesson. They share their ideas about the photo shown: Who are they? What are they doing?Are they relatives? What are they talking about? First they discuss eachother in pairs then teacher nominate a student from each group to share their ideas. This must be a short but an effective stage to make the students more familiar with listening part.
Students listen to the audio file individually to find out the things they are talking about. The topics are projected on the board. During this stage, students listen for gist and general ideas of the audio file. Teacher observes the students to check whether they are on the task or not. After they finish listening and answering the question, they check their answers with the person next to them. Teacher gives FB in the end if necessary.
Students listen for specific details in this stage. So they need to focus on the audio file. They listen to the file twice. During the first listening, they try to complete Tommy's questions. In the second listening , they answer these questions.They answer all of these questions individually then peer check. In the end, teacher gives FB if necessary.
During this stage, firstly students try to talk eachother what Bill said about colour TV, TV programmes, dishwashers, planes, holidays, pocket money. After they share their ideas eachother, teacher gives FB. Then students go out of the classroom . They work in groups 3 to find out what Bill would say about these topics :Computers, mobile phones, fast food, theme parks. The names of these topics are out of the classroom on the walls. Each group chooses a topic. Each group has one topic. They discuss eachother, share their findings with whole class.