Angela Angela

Strictly Confidential Lesson
Intermediate level

Description

In this lesson, students will practice speaking for fluency and listening for gist and specific information. The lesson starts with a discussion about spying and confidential information. This will be followed by gist listening with further listening for details. As a follow-up activity, students will do group discussions.

Materials

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Main Aims

  • To provide gist and specific information listening practice using a text about confidential information in the context of spying

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide fluency speaking practice in a conversation in the context of confidential information

Procedure

Warmer (2-3 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students.

• Before class, attach something that looks like a microphone to your clothes, e.g. at the lapel. • Tell the class that because of the new rule, the DOS (Director of Studies) is going to listen to all the teachers' lessons. The microphone won't pick up students' voices, but the school wants to check that teachers are doing good job. • Say that you expect that they won't listen in (• Elicit 'listen in') all the time - but you think they will probably monitor a few minutes of each lesson. • Ask SS if they think it is a good idea.

Lead-in (3-4 minutes) • To personalise the topic and engage the students' interest.

• Project Slide 1 with the question: Do other people have a right to know what you are doing? At work? In public places? At home? • Get SS to discuss the question in groups. • FB: elicit one or two responses.

Useful Language (2-3 minutes) • To highlight and clarify useful language for coming productive task.

• Elicit the vocabulary in the speaking task HO that may hinder SS' understanding of the task • Ask CCQs

Pre-Listening (7-8 minutes) • To prepare students for the text and make it accessible

• Open Slide 2. • Tell the class they are going to decide in groups which of the given pieces of information are the most confidential. • Ask ICQs to ensure the students understood the instructions. • Monitor the class to feed in language or provide any other help SS may need. Make notes of SS' mistakes for later DEC. • Do open class FB. • Open Slide 3. • Get SS to discuss which pieces of information the given people have the right to know. • Ask ICQs to make sure SS understood the instructions. • Monitor the class to ensure SS are on task and feed in language if necessary. • Do open class FB and DEC.

Listening for Gist (6-7 minutes) • To provide students with less challenging gist listening task

• Open Slide 4. • Tell SS they are going to listen to three people and answer 2 questions. • Get SS to turn their HO to 'listening' side. • Play the recording once. • Get SS to compare their answers in pairs. • Do open class FB (Slides 5-6)

Useful Language (4-5 minutes) • To clarify useful language for more challenging detailed listening

• Distribute Vocabulary Match HOs. • In pairs, get SS to match the words and phrases with the definitions. • Do open class FB.

Listening for Details (6-7 minutes) • To provide students with more challenging detailed listening task

• Project Slide 7. • Tell SS they are going to listen to the recording again and put the points about the new system in the correct order. • Get SS to read through the points first. • Play the recording. • Get SS to compare their answers in pairs. • For FB, project Slide 8 with the keys.

Follow-up Activity (7-8 minutes) • To provide SS with an opportunity to resond to the text and develop speaking fluency.

• Project Slide 8 with the question: Do you think it is a good idea for companies (or schools) to introduce systems like this? • Get SS in groups to discuss the question. • Monitor the class to provide help and collect some errors. • For FB, elicit some ideas from groups. • Do DEC

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