Listening
Upper intermediate, B2 level
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide students with listening practice in the context of traveling.
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide students with the vocabulary necessary to express the activities carried out while waiting at the airport.
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To provide students with pronunciation practice of the vocabulary in the context of traveling.
Procedure (41-51 minutes)
-Engage Ss in the topic by asking them questions and eliciting answers from them. -Ask Ss the following questions: -How do you prefer to travel? Why? -What was the last journey you made? Where did you go? -Have you ever had to wait a long time at an airport or a station? If so, why? -Discuss the answers as a group.
-Present the three vocabulary words that are seen in the text. (Do some shopping, people-watch, phone family, work or study) -Ask students to match the words with the meaning. -Ask students to identify the type of words (activities) and ask what tense the phrases are in, and what they would be like in a different tense. (past) -Separate words into syllables and identify the strongest one, then ask students to repeat the pronunciation of the words twice. Mark the stress on the board for them to see. -Ss are provided with a handout and asked to select the ones they have done to pass the time at an airport.
-Ss are given a handout with a fill-in-the-gap activity. They have one minute to read it. -Ss listen to the audio and fill in the gaps with the missing words. -Conduct open-class feedback.
-Ss are given another hand-out with a number of sentences. They are asked to identify whether they are True or False. -Ss have one minute to read the sentences. -Ss listen to the audio again and complete the hand-out. -Conduct open-class feedback.
-Give Ss a hand-out with a number of questions. Give them one minute to read them. -Imagine you are in Paris and you are taking a flight back home, but it got delayed several hours. What would you do in the meantime? -If money wasn't an issue, what else could you do? -Ask Ss to work in pairs. Have them discuss their answers. --Conduct open-class feedback.