Group:: Day, Mother's Day, Halloween, Christmas's Day, Children's Day)
Group:: Day, Mother's Day, Halloween, Christmas's Day, Children's Day)
: October 27th, 2011 : 60 minutes : A 20 student class of intermediate level : Improving listening skills for English majored students :
Students
General Objectives Specific Objectives:
Graph all the basic information about some special days (Valentines Day, Fool Aprils Day, Mothers Day, Halloween, Christmass Day, Childrens Day)
Skills: listening for gist and details, taking notes Get some tips for multiple choice questions : Communicative approach. :
Approach Materials
Textbook: Jack C.Richard, Expanding Tactics for listening Second Edition (2005),
Assumption: students have already had some basic information about special days and can get the meaning of the new words. Anticipated problems:
Students dont like the topic. Students dont take part in group works. Students didnt prepare for the lesson
Procedures:
Time 10
Activities Teachers Pre - Listening Stabilization and Introduction: Greeting Teacher: Keep quiet and listen to the teacher. Be eager to watch a video clip - Watch the clip and take notes. - Dear students, Im glad to see you again. Before starting the lesson today, I would like you to watch a video clip and write down how many days can you see and something special for this day. - Play the video without any stop for the first time. Students
Notes
- Ask the students what they can see in the clip and speak - Discuss in group in 1 out. minute and give some
Getting ready: - Deliver the handouts - Receive and read through the handouts. -Let them work in pairs, discuss and match the words on the - Discuss and find out the left column to the explanation on the right one. answers
-Ask the students to give the answers and check by the -Give the answers to the power point. teacher and check.
New words: - Now we move to our main part today, it is listening to Look at the picture and what people are talking about. First of all, now look at you answer the questions of the
TASK 2: (handout page 51, let students listen to in 2 or 3 times) A. 1st and 2nd time listening: 2 -Now look at the board and tell me which group is the winner. Wow, congratulation on Group ; but, dont worry. We still have chance to level up your score in this part. We come to the next task. People are talking about how they celebrate their birthdays. Do they stay at home or go out. Check the correct answer. Can you get what you are going to do? Yeah, great! Similarly, you also listen to the task 1 time and have to take notes and after listening, discuss in your group in 1 more minute. And then I will also call Number 1, you ring your bell and tell me the answer as well as the clues. Before listening, can you tell me what can you see in the picture? 8 Ok, Ready? Ya, lets listen. Look at the handout and listen to the speaker, take notes and choose the correct answer. ANSWERS: 1. Stays home 2. Goes out 3. Goes out 4. Stays home 5. Stays home 3 6. Goes out Discuss in group, ring bell after the teacher speak out the number, give answer and reasons to gain the score. Look at the pictures and express ideas. Look at the board and tell the answer.