Topic: Listening Skills - Festivals

Goal: teaching grammar and vocabulary through a listening task

Aims:
1. To apply skills and strategies of successful listeners by predicting parts of speech that are missing in a gapped text.
2. To familiarize themselves with the listening test for foundations by practicing note-taking
3. To develop vocabulary by making use of context clues as well as identifying previously learned vocabulary

Session Time Topics/activities Resources

Lesson 1 20 minutes Activity 1: Warm-Up: https://bubbl.us/

Listening 1. Pair work: students work in pairs. They log into a concept mapping website
1 hour 50 and elicit ideas of types of dishes they would see in festivals around the Students may refer to
minutes (1 world. reading passage from
session) 2. Group work: students work in groups and compare lists until they agree on a their reading class
final list per group.
3. Students share their answers on google docs for everyone to see. https://www.google.co
4. Whole-class: using what they put up in google docs, the class will agree on m/docs/about/
final list and discuss why they agree or disagree with the list.
40 minutes Activity 2: Grammar and Vocabulary Introduction (this could be review if the words Gap fill worksheets
have been practiced during previous classes) made by the teacher,
1. The teacher writes the vocabulary words on the board. Students are asked to adapted by using the
elicit what part of speech each word is. reading passages and
2. Whole-class practice/modelling: Practice using context clues and part of adding in their
speech of the missing word what the missing word might be. Then we vocabulary words and
practice looking at the vocabulary word and writing what the part of speech parts of speech they
is. need to know,
3. Independent practice: Students are divided into two groups. Group 1 get a gap specifically:
fill worksheet with gaps for the vocabulary word but the part of speech given. conjunctions,
Group 2 get a gap fill where the vocabulary word is given but the part of connecting words
speech is missing.
4. When students are finished, they compare answers within their own group.
5. When theyre done, students from Group 1 partner up with students from
Group 2 to check their answers.
6. Note: students do not see each others work, they have to speak their answers
and the partners have to listen and write. They can check for each other only.
7. Whole-class check
30 minutes Activity 3: Content: Listening Practice Audio link or cd (2
1. Students are given a worksheet with questions available. They are asked to different ones on the
skim and scan the paper and predict answers. This is done as a whole-class same topic of festivals)
activity.
2. Whole-class activity: teacher tells the students they will play a game: the Note-taking
teacher will play the recording. When the students hear the answer they think worksheets for group
is correct, they need to raise their hands. The teacher will count group points work
for the group that raises their hand exactly when they hear the answer.
3. Independent Practice/Assessment: This time the teacher gives them a new Note-taking
note-taking sheet. Students skim through the questions independently for a worksheets for
given time. The teacher plays the recording and the students must write their assessment + answer
notes. The students must then transfer their answers to the answer sheet. sheet
4. Partner check - students exchange papers and the class corrects the answers
together. The teacher replays the audio when there is confusion or argument,
or when more than half the class has the wrong answer.

10 minutes Activity 4: Wrap-Up and Reflection Listening reflection

1. Students are asked to fill in a listening reflection sheet that has questions like: worksheet
 a. Today we listening to
b. I like/do not like this topic because: Blog for sharing
c. What we listened to made me think of _____ reflections:
d. Something new I learned: http://www.wikispaces.
e. Something I could do better in: com/
f. Next time, my goal is to:
2. Students share their reflections on a wikispace for others to read and comment on.
Students must comment on at least two of their classmates reflection, offering advice
or sharing their own experience.

They have Project/Activity for the end of the week: Reading passage on
until the end 1. Students work with partners. They are given a reading passage which could topic of festivals
of the week, be an extract from what they read during reading or writing class.
but it should 2. Students use the text to make their own gap-fill activity, taking out a few Voice recording app:
ideally take vocabulary/grammar-related words from the text. https://itunes.apple.co
them 20 3. Students make an audio recording of their text using a voice recorder app. m/us/app/voice-
minutes They have to try to make it as close to perfect as possible. recorder-
4. At the end of the week pairs share their gapped texts and guess which words free/id685310398?mt=
are missing. 8
5. Finally, each pair plays their recording and the pair that got the gapped text
listen and check their answers.