YLE Starters Listening Part 1 Teachers Notes

Description This activity gives students practice in demonstrating their understanding of prepositions and of classroom objects. This activity also provides useful practice for Speaking Part 1. Time required: Materials required: 10 15 minutes Classroom objects e.g. pen, pencil, book, ruler, eraser, desk YLE Sample Papers downloaded from the website: https://www.teachers.cambridgeesol.org/ts/exams/younglearnersandforschools/ylestar ters Starters Listening Part 1 recording downloaded from the website: https://www.teachers.cambridgeesol.org/ts/exams/younglearnersandforschools/ylestar ters to introduce students to Part 1 of the Starters Listening paper and to the task type. to enable students to respond physically to instructions.

Aims:

Procedure 1. Introduce the activity by asking students first to clear their desks. Then ask them to take out at least six classroom objects and put them on their desks e.g. Put a blue pencil, a red pencil and a green pencil on your desk. Put an eraser on your desk. Put a pen on your desk. Put your English book on your desk. Put a ruler on your desk. 2. Either use this set of instructions or write your own, making sure that your instructions include a preposition of place. Give each instruction one by one and let students move the object before giving the next instruction. Demonstrate using a set of instructions to make sure students know what to do. E.g.: Put the pen between the blue pencil and the red pencil. Put the ruler in your English book. Put the eraser under your English book. Put the green pencil on your English book. 3. Tell students to put all the objects on one side of their desks. Elicit and then write sentence prompts you used on the board, e.g. Put the (eraser) (under) the (book). Elicit the prepositions you used, check students understanding by asking for demonstrations and then write them on the board.

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4. Make pairs. EITHER: Students take turns to give each other instructions and move the objects. Ask one to pair demonstrate the activity first for the rest of the class to see. OR: Students put up a book between them so they cant see each others desks. Student A arranges the objects on his/her desk. Then he/she gives instructions for Student B to arrange the objects in the same way on his/her desk. Ask one pair to demonstrate the activity first for the rest of the class to see. When student A has given all the instructions they compare their desks. Then they change roles: student B arranges the objects and tells student A where to put his/her objects.

5. Tell students to place their book in the centre of the desk and the objects around the book. Give instructions, as in step 2. This time students dont move the objects. Instead they mime drawing a line from the object to where it should go. E.g. for the instruction Put the pen between the blue pencil and the red pencil, students put a finger on the pen and then move their finger and then place it between the blue pencil and the red pencil This gives them practice with the task in the test. 6. Hand out Sample Task. Tell students to look carefully at the pictures before they listen and to think about where things might go. Tell students to take out a pencil and a ruler. 7. Make sure students realise that: they draw lines from five of the objects pictured the objects in the pictures are not all from the same word family, e.g. in this sample task they are not all classroom objects.

8. Play the recording or read the tapescript aloud to the class. If you read it aloud, read it twice. 9. Ask students to check their answers in pairs. Then check with the class.

Additional information The listening text for this part is a dialogue between a male and female speaker. The recording is always heard twice.

Suggested follow-up activity Students arrange the objects on their desks as they choose. Then they write a description in their notebooks e.g. The blue pencil is next to the ruler and make a drawing of their desk under the text.

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YLE Starters Listening Part 1 Answer Keys

Key to Sample Task Lines should be drawn between: 1. Clock and between two pictures on wall 2. Book and under table 3. Phone and on mat 4. Camera and in cupboard 5. Shell and on table next to robot

Tape script for Step 9: (Original can be found on Page 9 of the Sample Papers, which can be downloaded from https://www.teachers.cambridgeesol.org/ts/exams/examsforschools/ylestarters)

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YLE Starters Listening Part 1 Sample Task

(Original can be found on Page 4 of the Sample Papers, which can be downloaded from https://www.teachers.cambridgeesol.org/ts/exams/examsforschools/ylestarters)

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