Listening - Family Photos
Elementary level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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By the end of the lesson, students will have been better able to listen for gist and specific information in the context of the family photos.
Subsidiary Aims
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By the end of the lesson, students will have been provided with a fluency speaking activity in a conversation in the context of the family photos.
Procedure (32-45 minutes)
- Start first with greetings to the students. - Personalise the topic by talking about myself and my brother who is working abroad. - Ask the students to answer the 3 questions in pairs for 2 minutes. * Do you have photos of family and friends with you? * Where do you have them on your phone or in your wallet? * How do you often look at them? - Nominate some students and ask them whether they had things in common.
By using the MPF, to clarify the meaning, pronunciation, and form: - Ask the students about the following words after you show them realia/photos or the item Itself. Model & drill while you're pronouncing the words, then write it at the end on the Whiteboard. * Wallet: Meaning: Realia/ photos. Drill it, then write it on the board to show the stress. * Sad: Meaning: realia/showing sad faces. Drill it, then write it on the board to show the Stress. * Happy: Meaning: realia/showing happy faces. Drill it, then write it on the board to show The stress. * Voicemail: meaning: use elicitation/miming, pronounce, then drill it and then write it on The Whiteboard.
- Present to the students the activity after you set the task - Give instructions & Ask ICQs about the activities if needed. - Answer one as a demo with them. - Ask them to work in pairs to check their answers together. - Give the answer key to save time if needed or show it to them on the projector. - The activities are less challenging and will gradually get more difficult. It's a preparation for the next level of While Listening 2. - Feedback will be provided whenever needed.
- The activities here gradually got more challenging and requested more detail. - There are some more challenging listening activities (tasks) in this stage. - Ask the students to check their answers in pairs. - Feedback will be provided whenever needed.
- Divide the class into students A & B: - Ask student A to speak, to B freely for 3 minutes about a family member or a relative who Lives and works in another country. - After the 3 minutes are finished, then student B will start talking the same to student A About any family member who is working or living in another country. - Ask the student to talk about who is he/she? - What does he do in that country and what's his/her profession? - How often do you talk to him/her? - Do you keep his/her photos on your mobile/wallet? While they're talking, monitor the students and make notes without any interruption. After the two students, A & B finished talking to each other, then, I'll give the feedback either verbally or write some notes on the Whiteboard.