Listening Comprehension
Elementary level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide detailed listening practice using a text about children in the context of stereotypes around gender and color
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide fluency speaking practice in a conversation in the context of stereotypes around gender and color
Procedure (49-62 minutes)
The students will be asked what toys they played with as they were growing up. Did they only play with cars, construction toys and toy weapons, or dolls, stuffed animals and dress-up clothes or both? How do they think gender affects the kind of toys children grow up with?
The students will be informed about the meaning, from and pronunciation of the following vocabularies used in the text by clarification, and then they will try to fill the gaps with the vocabularies individually. They will check their answers with the whole class. Delicate - Influence - Package (verb) - Emerge
The students will listen to track and try to answer the following questions: 1. What is surprising about dressing children in pink or blue? 2. Do Alison and Natasha agree about the color of children's toys?
Students will be asked to read the questions on page 32 part d and then the audio file will be played again. The students need to choose options a,b or c for each question. They will have 2 minutes to check their answers in pairs then we will check the answers with the whole class. Students will need to say why they have marked each sentence True or False and they will need to support their ideas if they come up with different answers.
Students will be asked to talk to each other in groups of 3 or 4 about what are some of the ways they think is best to raise children. According to tradition, or free from stereotypes?