New lesson plan: TP-2- Listening Lesson

Alev Turhan

TP-2- Listening Lesson - Intermediate level

TP-2- Listening Lesson
Intermediate level

Description

In this part of the lesson, the learners will have a listening text to be supported by speaking and reading activities where they are going to learn how to use descriptive adjectives and making comparisons.

Materials

Coursebook exercise handout

Pictures of animals

paper cuts for vocabulary

Grammar point "use of comparison word 'like'"

Coursebook exercise handout

Pictures of animals

paper cuts for vocabulary

Grammar point "use of comparison word 'like'"

Main Aims

To provide specific information and gist listening practice using a text about how to describe personality and making comparisons in the context of having one's own pets

Subsidiary Aims

To provide fluency speaking practice in a discussion in the context of having pets.
To provide gist and scan reading practice in describing personality and making comparisons using a listening text about "Can pets and their owners become more alike over time".
To provide clarification and practice of descriptive adjectives in the context of describing personality and making comparisons.

Procedure (48-49 minutes)

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

I will show a bag of toy animals and ask the class to guess “what is inside”? After guessing, i will let them take one for each randomly from the bag. Let them tell me the name of the animal they picked; to check whether they knew the names correctly.Then I will take all the animals out (if any left) of the bag eliciting what are they called. From the pile of animals, I will select and put just the pets on the T's desk and try to elicit the word “pet”. After eliciting, i will make them discuss the questions in the coursebook ex.1 in pairs. I will take some general feedback.

Pre-reading stage (5-5 minutes) • To prepare them for the reading text.

I will make three groups of students. Hand out the text with questions (folded from the 3rd exercise and the reading text covered). Ask them to discuss in groups the statements in ex. 2a (one question for each group), and guess whether the statements are true or false. I will not take feedback here and pass to the first reading stage.

While reading stage (5-5 minutes) • To make a reading for gist in order for the Ss to have a general idea about the text.

In this stage, I will make the first reading for gist and take a quick feedback on ex. 2a.

Post- reading stage/Clarification (5-5 minutes) • Try to understand if they figured out the descriptive and comperative expressions in the text.

I will ask the meaning of the words "alike" and "personality" to check how much they know about the topic. Try to elicit the answer. I will ask, how does the passage describe the relationship between the pets and their owners (here I intend to elicit here “by using or making comparisons"). If time permits, here I can mak a brief explaination about the comparisons: use of "like". I will give an handout with examples to clarify the point

Pre-listening stage (7-8 minutes) • To provide them with the vocabularies in order to prepare them for the listening.

In pairs, I will ask their ideas and make them discuss ex.3. I will not let them unfold the paper yet. Then I will stick the pictures of the animals (in ex.4) on the board. I will try to elicit the answer and write names of each on the board according to their answers. Now make them unfold the paper and let them check whether their guesses are true or false. I will ask learners if they can guess what kind of personality any of the animals might have. I will give some vocabulary of traits to prepare them for the listening. Find out if anyone has one of these animals and what they are like. This will set the context for the listening. (Here I am planning to play a game: I will write YES - NO categories on the board and stick some descriptive adjectives randomly around of the board that I believe they do not know. I will try to find out how many adjectives they know from the list and categorize them under YES; the ones they do not know under NO. And by miming I will try to elicit the meaning of the adjectives. Here I am planning to call some learners to do the miming as well).

While-listening stage (5-5 minutes) • To make a gist listening to have a general idea about the text.

I will do the first listening in ex. 5 for main idea, and while listening I will make them do the matching in ex.5a.

Post-listening stage (6-6 minutes) • To listen the text in detail and try to check whether they were able to catch the personality adjectives and comparative expressions.

I will do the second listening for detail, and while listening I will make them pay attention to the descriptive adjectives used in the text and answer the questions in ex.5b in pairs.

Exposure (5-5 minutes) • To check their understanding of the expressions and adjectives used in the text, and the clarify some grammatical point.

While on discussion, I will write the chart in the ex. 6a on the board and some of the adjectives used in the text. After practicing this chart together, they will check the script in pairs to see how the statements in the chart is used in the listening text.

Production (5-5 minutes) • To make them use the new vocabulary in their own sentences.

We will do the gap-filling exercise in ex.6b in pairs. I will write the questions on the board so that they will come and fill it on the bowrd. By doing so, they will be able to practice the expressions used in the chart. As for the speaking part ex.7, I will make them pick someone they want in the class, and talk about each other. During the discussion i will be monitoring them. Then I will take feedback by asking each pair what they have learned from one another.