Listen & Discuss U9
Grade 9 level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide gist listening practice using a text about describing people in the context of all kinds o people
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide fluency speaking practice in a conversation in the context of describing people
Procedure (45-55 minutes)
Look at the pictures. 1. Compare the people and the situations in the pictures to the ones in your town. 2. Match the pictures to the descriptions below. Write the letters in the circles.
Have students discuss the first introductory question. Ask: Can you see any of these things in our town? Which ones? Which things have you never seen?
Play the audio. Have students listen and repeat the sentences. a Ask: Do the sentences describe what is happening now or sometime in the past? How do you know?
Then have students match the sentences with the pictures. Make sure they write the letter for each sentence in one of the circles. Discuss answers as a class.
Play the audio for the model conversations. Students listen and repeat. a Have students ask and answer questions in pairs about the people in the pictures, being sure to switch roles.