Gayth Aawdelkareem Gayth Aawdelkareem

Receptve skills- Listening
Intermediate level

Description

In this lesson, sts practice listening in a context of interviews with university students who are about to graduate.

Materials

Abc Gap-fill and table-fill handouts, board , screen

Main Aims

  • To provide gist, specific information and detailed listening practice using a text about Future forms in the context of radio interviews with graduate students

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide fluency speaking practice in a discussion in the context of future plans and ideas

Procedure

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

1- Teacher starts the class by welcoming the ss. Then after, teacher asks students who are employees '' Have you found a job easily after graduation?', ss are nominated randomly to answer. 2- Teacher asks ss to discuss in pairs '' Is it easy for students to find jobs in Egypt? Do they start their careers immediately? What else might they do? 3- Students reflect their answers back to the teacher. 4- teacher sets the context

Pre-Reading/Listening (5-6 minutes) • To prepare students for the text and make it accessible

1- T creates a context in which his friend Ali is a fresh graduate from The School of Business and Management. He was so lucky to have been accepted by Coca-cola company to spend three months in the company to give him a general idea about how the work goes and what the manager does, yet unfortunately he is not paid for that. Then asks '' What can we call Ali in the company?" Then after T CCQs ss for the word'' trainee manager'' by asking the following: a- Is Ali the manager? b- Does he train people? c- Is he getting trained? 2- T models ''trainee manager'' then drills, chorally and individually. 3- T boards the word and asks for its stress, syllables and part of speech 4- T displays a picture of a graduate student on the screen asks the ss What did she have? (relating to past vocabulary lesson if needed). and then displays another picture of another student and asks '' What is he doing''. lastly T CCQs the ss by asking the following: Is he still studying? Did he receive his certificate? 5- T models '' to do a degree'' and then drills, chorally and individually. 6- T displays the logo of ''Adidas'' on the screen then asks if they like the brand. then after, T asks what does the company manufactures and sells. T asks '' What do we call that type of companies which sells shoes,t-shirts,jackets..etc" 7- T models'' clothing company'' then drills, chorally and individually. 8-T shows a newspaper to the class and asks about whether they read it daily or not. T asks the ss about the job title of the person who works to write these newspapers. T asks about the industry of reporting news and making articles. T asks about the educational field that prepares students to work as reporters and article writers. 9- T models ''Journalism'' and then drills, chorally and individually. 10- T boards the word and asks about stress, syllables and part of speech.

Listening task1 -gist (5-6 minutes) • To provide students with less challenging gist and specific information listening tasks

1- T sets the task by telling ss that now they are going to listen to six radio interview recordings that were done with graduate students. 2- T chests the table-fill handout and clearly instructs the ss that they have to answer only one question'' What have they been studying?' on the table in front of each graduate's name. 3- T ICQs the ss by saying; a- Are we looking for detailed information about the graduates? b- How many questions are we going to answer? 4- T distributes the handouts. 5- T plays the recordings and sits to wait for the ss to answer. 6- T puts the ss in pairs and tells them to discuss their answers. 7- T monitors the students while they discuss their answers to check understanding. 8- The ss be nominated to give contend feedback.

Listening task 2 -for detail (7-8 minutes) • To provide students with more challenging detailed, deduction and inference listening task

1- T sets the task by telling ss that now they are going to listen to six interview recordings again. 2- T chests the table-fill handout and clearly instructs the ss that they have now to listen carefully and fill in the other column ''plans/ideas for future career'' 3- T distributes the handouts. 4- T plays the recordings and sits to wait for the ss to answer. 5- T puts the ss in pairs and tells them to discuss their answers. 6- T monitors the students while they discuss their answers to check understanding. 7- The ss be nominated to give contend feedback.

Listening task 3 -for detail (7-8 minutes) • To provide students with more challenging detailed, deduction and inference listening task

1- T sets the task by telling ss that now they are going to listen again to the six interview recordings to search for some details. 2- T chests the gap-fill handout and clearly instructs the ss that they have to fill in the gap while they listen to each of the recordings again. 3- T distributes the handouts. 4- T plays the recordings and sits to wait for the ss to answer. 5- T puts the ss in pairs and tells them to discuss their answers. 6- T monitors the students while they discuss their answers to check understanding. 7- The ss give an open class contend feedback.

Post-Reading/Listening (11-12 minutes) • To provide with an opportunity to respond to the text and expand on what they've learned

1- T groups the ss into two groups '' Interviewers'' and ''Interviewees'' 2- T tells the ss that now they are some interviews going to be conducted. The interviewers have to ask the interviewees about their one-year, ten-year and thirty-year plans for their job, family and housing. and then , roles will switch. 3- T chests the table which interviewers are going to use and tells them where to fill-in answers 4-The ss take 5 minutes then switch roles. 5- The ss reflect their answers to the T.

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