New lesson plan: 45 minute listening-based lesson plan

Asmaa Mohamed Abdallah Ali Khamees

45 minute listening-based lesson plan - beginners level A1 level

45 minute listening-based lesson plan
beginners level A1 level

Description

In this lesson students learn more about booking a table in a restaurant through listening to an audio based on a phone call between a customer and a restaurant officer. This lesson will go throughout many stages: 1- warm-up/ lead-in: to prepare students for the listening. 2- pre-listening: to make the audio more accessible. 3- while-listening 1: to provide students with less challenging task (listening for gist). 4 While Listening 2: to provide students with more detailed listening. 5- post-Listening: to give the students to respond to the listening productively.

Materials

blank papers and pens

blank papers and pens

Main Aims

To practice listening for gist by checking predictions and asking questions. to practice listening for details by answering questions. - To learn how to communicate in booking a table in a restaurant.
By the end of this lessons, Students will be able to

Subsidiary Aims

- To practice conversation skills by discussing the audio main points with group members.

Procedure (45 minutes)

warm-up (5 minutes) • To make sure that students are prepared to the lesson

-T greets Ss and asks how are you today? -T shows Ss a picture of a restaurant and asks them whats your favorite kind of restsurants? -T shows Ss a photo of pictures and words together on one line to decode (picture of a book +ing beside it and a picture of a table and letter N and a picture of restaurant -T asks students can you guess what's today's session about? -T listens to the Ss discussions to elicit the topic " booking a table in a restaurant". -T writes the topic on the board and discuses the the meaning of word "book" in this context.

Pre-reading (5 minutes) • to make the listening audio more accessible.

-T gives Ss certain forms of times and asks Ss to put them in the correct group in a chart (Ss work in pairs). -T asks students CCQ's to check their understanding of the given activity.

While-listening 1 (10 minutes) • Listening for gist.

-T gives Ss a sheet contains 6 multi choices questions. -T gives Ss 3 minutes and asks Ss to read the questions carefully to get the answers from the record. -T plays the audio. -T asks Ss to answer the questions. -T monitors Ss and checks the answers.

While-listening 2 (15 minutes) • To provide Ss with more chalenging details in the listening Task

-T gives Ss six sentences to arrange the same order as the phone call in the listening activity. -T asks Ss to read the Ss well. (4 minutes) -T plays the record. -T asks Ss to arrange the sentences. -T monitors and checks if Ss got the answers easily, she discusses the answers with them. -If Ss have difficulties to get the answers, T says no problem if you didn't get the right order and plays the audio one more time. -T checks Ss' answers in the white board. T underline and extracts the expressions used in the phone call like ( can ...I? how many...?what time...?is it possibl...? is it ok...?) and elicits from Ss when these expressions are used (the meaning).

Post-listening (10 minutes) • Communicative activity encourages Ss to apply what they have learnt in the listening task..

-Ss work in pairs to make a similar phone call to book a table in a restaurant using the expression used in the listening task and discussed together. T monitors the Ss to encourage , evaluate Ss during their speaking task and corrects the errors. -T gives Ss feedback and thanks them.

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