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Listening - A2 level

Listening
A2 level

Description

In this lesson the students are going to listen to a psychoanalyst talking to a patient about his dreams.

Materials

American English File 2

Audio File

Pictures

American English File 2

Audio File

Pictures

Main Aims

To provide detailed listening practice using a text about dreams.

Subsidiary Aims

To provide fluency speaking practice in a conversation in the context of communicating about dreams

Procedure (37-50 minutes)

Warmer/Lead-in (5-7 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

The students will be asked if they often remember their dreams. Do they think that dreams can tell us about the future?

Pre-Listening (6-8 minutes) • To prepare students for the text and make it accessible

The students will be informed about the meaning of the following vocabularies used in the text by trying to match the meaning of the words with the vocabularies individually. They will check their answers in pairs and then with the whole class.

While-Listening #1 (5-7 minutes) • To provide students with less challenging gist and specific information reading/listening tasks

The students will see the picture 1-5 in page 50 and listen to track and number those pictures in the correct order and try to answer the following questions: Where was he in his dream? What did he see on the tree when he was in the garden? The answers will be checked with whole class. Students will need to support their ideas if they come up with different answers.

While-Listening #2 (8-10 minutes) • To provide students with more challenging detailed, deduction and inference reading/listening tasks

Students will be asked to read the questions on page 50 part c and then the audio file will be played again. The students need to fill the blanks with a correct form of the verb. They will have 2 minutes to check their answers in pairs then we will check the answers with the whole class. they will need to support their ideas if they come up with different answers.

Post-Reading/Listening (13-18 minutes) • To provide with an opportunity to respond to the text and expand on what they've learned

Students will be asked to talk to each other in groups of 3 or 4 about these following questions: 1.Have you ever had the same dream more than once? 2.Have you ever dreamed about something that then happend? 3.Do you think dreams can tell us anything about the future?