Jorge Carreon Jorge Carreon

W8 Listening July 3 - Thursday
A1-B1 Vets Gen2 level

Materials

Abc Audio Clips
Abc Worksheets

Main Aims

  • Understand past tense sequencing through real-life storytelling

Subsidiary Aims

  • Identify actions and background interruptions using both past tenses

Procedure

Warmer/Lead-in (8-10 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

Ask students to think of the last time they were focused or working and someone or something interrupted them. Prompt questions: What were you doing? What happened? How did you react?

While-Reading/Listening #1 (8-10 minutes) • To provide students with less challenging gist and specific information reading/listening tasks

Students listen and answer: Who was involved? What happened? What made it funny, strange, or unexpected?

While-Reading/Listening #2 (13-15 minutes) • To provide students with more challenging detailed, deduction and inference reading/listening tasks

Procedure: Students listen again and complete: Left column: verbs and expressions used (past simple + continuous) Right column: what actions were happening when something else occurred Bottom: summary of the full story in their own words

Post-Reading/Listening (8-10 minutes) • To provide with an opportunity to respond to the text and expand on what they've learned

Procedure: Students receive jumbled events from the story and must: Reconstruct the sequence Retell the story in pairs Use at least 2 past continuous and 2 past simple structures

Feedback and Error Correction (13-15 minutes) • To provide feedback on students' production and use of language

Procedure: Students nominate words they heard but didn’t understand. Instructor: Boards each word Defines it, gives pronunciation, explains usage Optionally adds it to a class glossary page or board

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