Teaching Practice 4
Upper-Intermediate, B2 level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To develop students' skills of listening for gist and detail in the context of a comparison between modern life and the past by different speakers
Subsidiary Aims
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To enable students to understand some vocabulary items from the listening to make generalisations
Procedure (35-47 minutes)
T writes 'Modern life is ... than in the past' on the board. Ss work in pairs to complete the sentence and think of three examples to support it. T gets feedback and writes them on the board.
Ss listen to check if they have the same ideas as the speakers (Listening ex. 1). Ss check their answers in pairs. T takes some feedback.
Ss listen again and decide if the statements about the speakers are true (T), false (F) or the listening doesn't say (DS). Ss check their answers in pairs. T takes feedback.
Ss work in pairs and underline the words which are used to talk about making generalisations. T takes feedback.
Ss work in pairs and insert the missing word in each sentence. T takes feedback. T highlights the meaning and usage of the phrases in feedback.
Ss look at the sentences that they've studied in Language Focus 1 and discuss which statement(s) they agree/disagree strongly and about which statement(s) they can make the most generalisations. Ss prepare their ideas with examples to support them and find exceptions. T takes some feedback on whether their ideas are the same.