New lesson plan: Telephone bills

Mabroka M Milad El_shukri

Telephone bills - Intermediate level

Telephone bills
Intermediate level

Description

In this lesson students will be given three pictures and will be asked to discuses or guess what is going on in each pictures . After that students will be asked to listen and answer one question about each picture why are they unhappy(gist listening question) Students will listen to each recording separately and check their answers with their partners afterwards at the end of this stage (while listening task 1) Students will be given an answer key to check their answers.Then, Students will be given 10 sentences and will be asked to to match them with the person who said them , they will after that listen to the conversations to check their answers .Students will be asked to discuses and try to match some phrases taken from the listening to their meaning A or B . Students have already developed an understanding of the text through the while listening stages so it's beneficial to test their understating of some words/phrases used in the text .If time allows Ss will be given two discuss two questions in groups .

Materials

pictures

pictures

Main Aims

To provide gist and detailed listening practice using a text about problems with phone and phone bills in the context of Complaining

Subsidiary Aims

To provide practice of guessing new words from context through group discussion .

Procedure (33-47 minutes)

Warmer/Lead-in (3-5 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students and elicit the main topic of the lesson which is Telephone bills

T greets Ss and ask them about their weekend. T asks Ss to stand up and make a big circle . T shows Ss an envelope and shows them what is written on it (Today's lesson is.... ) and make facial expression to arouse Ss's interest to know the main topic of the lesson . T asks Ss to open the envelope and see what is inside . T whispers (what do you think it is ?) to the student next to her (Mujgan= I assume that she will get the answer because she is one of the smart students ) and ask her to whisper her answer to the person next to her until it reaches the last person who will be next to the teacher on the other said. T then will ask the last person to say what he/she heard. If the same sentence/words were produced .( Telephone bills ) then main aim of the game will be successfully achieved.

Pre-Reading/Listening (10-12 minutes) • To prepare students for the text and make it accessible

T asks Ss to sit down and look at the picture and elicit the word ( complain ) what do you think he will do , will he (T elicits complain) If Ss didn't get the answer I will put it in a context to clarify it (yesterday I had dinner at the restaurant but the food was bad , I wanted to complain so I made a complaint ) T asks Ss some CCQs Did I like the food ? (no) what did I do ? (complain / made a complaint ) T writes the word on the board (when you want to complain /kəmˈpleɪn/ (V) you make a complaint (N) T drills the word with the class T puts Ss in groups of three . T shows Ss HOs that contain three pictures. T tries to elicit the answers from the Ss. What is going on in the pictures ? Are they happy ? T gives Ss the Hos and ask them to guess ? 1.who are they? 2. what is each person unhappy about ? T Ss work T monitors Ss share some interesting guesses with the class.

While-Reading/Listening #1 (10-12 minutes) • To provide students with less challenging gist and specific information reading/listening tasks

T asks Ss to listen and answer the question and see if their guesses were true? T plays the recording and pauses after each conversation . T asks Ss to check their answers after each conversation T provide Ss with an answer key .

While-Reading/Listening #2 (6-10 minutes) • To provide students with more challenging detailed listening tasks

T shows Ss the Hos and ask them to try to match the sentences to the person who said them by writing the first letter of his/her name next to the sentences . Ss work. T monitors. T tells Ss to listen to each conversation and check their answers. T asks Ss to check together. T monitors and decides whether or not an open class feedback is needed.

Post_Listening (2-5 minutes) • To provide with an opportunity to respond to the text and expand on what they've learned

T puts Ss in pairs and give them Ho that contains words/phrases from the recording that they have listened to during the while listening stage and ask them to discuss and decide what the words/phrases mean from the context. and then match the words/phrases with thier meaning A or B.

If time allows (2-3 minutes) • To give students an opportunity to react to the content of the text that they have listened to .

T asks Ss to discuss two questions ? Have you ever complained about anything you have bought ? if so what happened ?