Edén Barrales Edén Barrales

Opposites
A2 level

Description

In this lesson, students learn about the opposites through task base learning on a listening about a short story named "the lion and the mouse". The lesson starts with a game where students must follow the instructions the teacher says. This is followed by a song and a short story for them to listen and watch. Finally there are some exercises about listening comprehension.

Materials

Abc Listening comprehension. Listening for details. gap filling
Abc Listening comprehension. Multiple choice
Abc matching pairs

Main Aims

  • To provide in the context of a short story about a lion and a mouse
  • To provide clarification of opposites in the context of short story "The lion and the mouse"
  • To provide review of opposites in the context of fary tale

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide detailed listening practice using a text about The lion and the mouse in the context of opposites

Procedure

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

Students and teacher play Simon says

Exposure (2-3 minutes) • To provide a model of the task and highlight useful words and phrases

students will listen to a song and follow the instructions

clarification (4-6 minutes) • To provide an opportunity to practice target productive skills

students will solve an exercise about the vocabulary on the song

practice (6-8 minutes) • To provide an opportunity to practice the target language

Students throw an imaginary ball and make an action, the student who catches the ball must say the action

Exposure (2-3 minutes) • To allow student to listen to the vocabulary in context

students listen, watch the video, and read a short story.

practice (3-5 minutes) • To clarify thegeneral idea of the listening

students answer a question about the general idea of the listening

Exposure (5-8 minutes) • To provide students with practice of the task language

students will listen again to the story, this time with no letter on the video

Practice (8-10 minutes) • To provide clarification of the details of the story

students will fill the blank spaces with the word they heard

cooler (3-5 minutes) • To provide students to practice the target language

students will correct the mistake in a sentence

Report (3-5 minutes) • To provide students the oportunity to talk about how they feel and what they learnt

Teacher ask students to say somethings they liked, disliked and can improve

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