TP2-LP-Jorge Gaitan
Pre-Intermediate level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide gist and detailed listening practice using a text about hardships and challenges faced by some celebrities in the context of their lives before being famous
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide review of general lexis in the context of celebrities' lives
Procedure (39-46 minutes)
Ask the students if they're interested in celebrities and to name two celebrities they know.
Present four words that will come up in the text that are important for the students' understanding of the text. Check if they know the vocabulary already and provide an example phrase in which each word can appear. Check each word's pronunciation and form.
Show the students the people to whom the text refers and the problem's they have faced. Give them two minutes to make predictions about which problems apply to each person. Give them three minutes to read the text. Ask if they predicted correctly and show them the answers.
Show the students questions that require reading the text in more detail to answer. Give them four minutes to read the text and take note of their answers. After reading, send them to breakout rooms for five minutes to discuss their answers in pairs. Call them back to the main meeting and go over each question's answer.
Present two questions for discussion and send students to breakout rooms again for five minutes to talk to each other. Monitor groups and take note of errors in their speech. Call students back to the main meeting for feedback and to point out some of the errors they made, with their respective corrections.