Listening to Happiness
Pre-Intermediate level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide specific information and detailed listening practice using a text of street interviews in the context of happiness
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide fluency speaking practice in a conversation in the context of happiness
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To provide clarification of potentially unfamiliar vocabulary from the text in the context of happiness
Procedure (45 minutes)
-show slide 1 -tell Ss: “Look at the picture. Talk to your partner about how they’re feeling and what is happening in the picture. You have 1 minute.” “The picture and questions are in the chat box.” -send Ss to BORs in pairs for 1 min -monitor Ss in BORs for content and misunderstandings -send Ss back to the main room -nominate a Ss who had the correct answer in monitoring, ask S: “How are they feeling?” -nominate another S, ask S: “What is happening in this picture?” -elicit the word ’happiness’ after ‘happy’ ccqs: Is ‘happy’ an adjective, noun, or verb? (adjective) What is the noun form for ‘happy’? (happiness)
-show slide 2 -tell Ss: “Let’s take a look at some vocabulary related to happiness.” -elicit the meaning of each word through CCQs and show the definition -elicit word stress of each word and show phonemic script -model and drill chorally (individually if needed) -elicit part of speech of each word and show them on the board -ECDW for each word should take about 2 min
-show slide 3 -tell Ss: “Let’s listen to some people in London talk about happiness. Please take a minute to read the question to yourself.” -ICQs: Please take notes on what makes them happy, does everyone have something to write with? (yes) What do you need to write? (yes or no) -play listening text (3 min) -tell Ss: “Now please check your answers with your partner for 2 minute in BORs.” -send Ss to BORs in pairs for 2 min -monitor Ss for correct answers and problematic questions -send Ss back to the main room -show answer key and go over any problematic questions heard in monitoring
-show slide 4 -tell Ss: “Now let’s listen again. This time please take notes on why these things make them happy. Please take a minute to read the questions to yourself.” -ICQs: Are all the numbers in question 1 going to have an answer? Are they all going to say why? (no- some say why and some do not so listen carefully!) -play listening text (3 min) -tell Ss: “Now please check your answers with your partner for 3 minute in BORs.” -send Ss to BORs in pairs for 3 min -monitor Ss for correct answers and problematic questions -send Ss back to the main room -show answer key for question 1 and go over problematic questions seen in monitoring (replay PART of the text if needed) -tell Ss: ”Please write your answers for question 2 in the chat box” -nominate a Ss with the correct answer in the chat box to share their answer and show answer on the board
-show slide 5 -tell Ss: “Now it’s your turn to do an interview about your ideas on happiness. Half of you will be asking the questions, the interviewer, and the other half will answer the questions, the interviewee.” -tell Ss who will be in group 1 and group 2- write the groups in the chat box -tell Ss: “Please read the instructions for your group for a moment in silence.” ”In BORs, please discuss with your group and complete the activity together for 3 minutes.” -ICQs: Group 1, how many questions do you need to make? (2-3 questions) Group 2, are you making questions? (no) are you talking about what makes the people from the video happy? (no- what makes YOU happy) -send Ss to 2 BORs for interviewers and interviewees for 3 min -send each group their instructions in the chat box of their BOR -monitor Ss for language use and misunderstandings -send Ss back to the main room -tell Ss: “Now in pairs, interviewers from group 1, please ask your questions. Interviewees from group 2, please answer their questions.” -ICQs: Group 1 interviewers, what questions are you asking? (the questions you made in BORs) Group 2 interviewees, are you going to talk about your happiness or your partner’s happiness? (YOUR happiness, about YOU) -send Ss to BORs in pairs (interviewer+interviewee) for 4 minutes -monitor Ss for correct language use, language errors, content, and misunderstandings -send Ss back to the main room -tell Ss: “Please write in the chat box, 1 thing you said or heard that makes us happy. Something DIFFERENT from the video.” (1 min)
-tell Ss: “Please read what your peers wrote in the chat box. Do you agree with any of them? Why does this make you happy?” -nominate Ss to share their opinions in the chat box answers and why these things make them happy -show slide 6 -tell Ss: ”Now let’s look at some sentences I heard during the previous activity.” In pairs, discuss how to correct these sentences for 2 min.” -send Ss to BORs in pairs for 2 min -monitor Ss for corrections and sentences they cannot correct the right way -send Ss back to the main room -nominate Ss and elicit the corrections for each sentence (3 min)