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Özge Aydemir, Listening Lesson
Intermediate, B1/B2 level

Description

In this lesson, students will practise their receptive skill of listening integrated with the productive skill of speaking in the context of an interview with an English chef. The lesson will start with a lead-in to engage the students with the context which will follow a vocabulary teaching stage. After a prediction task, students will be provided with while listening tasks. Next, controlled speaking and freer speaking practices will take place as post-listening tasks.

Materials

Main Aims

  • By the end of the lesson, students will have improved their receptive skill of listening along with sub-skills of listening for gist and listening for details in the context of an English chef.

Subsidiary Aims

  • By the end of the lesson, students will have practised and improved their productive skill of speaking targeting fluency in the context of an English chef and English&Turkish food.

Procedure

Stage 1- Warmer/Lead-in (3-5 minutes) • To set lesson context, engage students and raise interest in the topic.

T asks the ss if they have ever tried English food. T tells the class to watch a video about English food and talk what they think about it in their pairs. Ss watch the video, talk in pairs, T monitors and there's W/C F/B.

Stage 2- Pre-Listening / Pre-teaching vocabulary (5-6 minutes) • To prepare students for the text and make it accessible, to reduce barriers to understanding the audio and the tasks.

T divides the class into teams and sets the task. T asks possible ICQs. Ss race to collect the words and the matchig meanings on the walls in the classroom. T monitors. When the ss finish, they check the answers of the other groups. Then, there's W/C F/B.

Stage 3- Pre-Listening / Prediction task (3-4 minutes) • To raise interest and set a reason for listening.

T shows pictures of the English chef Kevin Poulter and asks ss to guess who he is and what his job is. In order to arouse curiosity and interest, T asks the ss to discuss in pairs what they think the listening will be about related to this chef. Ss discuss, T monitors. There's W/C F/B.

Stage 4- While-/Listening #1 / Sequencing (7-8 minutes) • To provide students with less challenging gist listening tasks.

T tells the ss that they are going to listen to an interview with the English chef Kevin and sets the task. T tells the ss to orders the pictures in the HOs as they listen. T asks possible ICQs. T gives the folded HOs. Ss look at the pictures. T plays the audio. Ss check answers in pairs and there's W/C F/B.

Stage 5- While-/Listening #2 / Answering the questions. (10-12 minutes) • To provide students with more challenging detailed, deduction listening tasks.

T pairs the ss up based on their preferences of food. (sweet / salty / sour) T tells the class that this time they will listen to answer questions about Kevin. T tells the class to unfold their papers and have a look at the questions before they listen. Ss listen to the audio and write the answers. Ss check in pairs. T monitors. T plays the audio again if necessary. Ss check in pairs again. T gives the A/K HOs. Ss discuss the answers in groups.

Stage 6- Post-Listening / Controlled practice (7-8 minutes) • To provide with an opportunity to respond to the text and expand on what they've learned. To give ss a chance to practice speaking based on their understanding of the text.

T tells the ss to remember the questions the interviewer asks. T tell the class to complete the missing words in the questions. T gives the HOs. Ss complete the questions and check in pairs. T monitors. T boards the A/K. T tells the ss to imagine they have a Turkish restaurant in another country and interview each other by using the questions in the HO. T monitors. Ss switch roles. T monitors. There's W/C F/B.

Post-Reading/Follow-up / Freer-speaking practice (5-6 minutes) • To provide with an opportunity to practise fluency speaking and expand on what they have learned.

T pairs the ss up again based on preferences of Mc Donald's and Burger King. T sets the task gives the instructions. T tells the ss to pass their COs clockwise so that each pair can discuss more than one topic. T asks possible ICQs. T gives each pair a CO question to discuss. (Do you think and English restaurant would be a success if it opened in Izmir? Why / Why not? Do women worry more about their diet than men? Can you often eat better in cheap restaurants then expensive ones? Are vegetarians healthier than man who eat a lot of meat? Do you think women are better chefs than men?) Teacher monitors. There's W/C F/B.

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