W7 Listening June 26 - Thursday
A1-B1 Vets Gen2 level
Materials
Main Aims
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Develop listening skills through real-life vet-related warnings or advice
Subsidiary Aims
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Recognize and record key vocabulary for emergencies and care instructions
Procedure (50-60 minutes)
Procedure: Ask students: What are some things that commonly go wrong with pets? What do you do in those situations? Board ideas: vomiting, wounds, heatstroke, choking, fear/aggression. Optional: Show 2–3 flash images (dog eating chocolate, cat stuck, bleeding paw) and ask students to describe or guess the advice.
Task: Students listen and identify: What is the general situation? What are the key pieces of advice? They do not write yet. Pair check after listening.
Procedure: Play again. Students take structured Cornell Notes: Left column: emergency actions, verbs, advice (e.g., keep the pet calm, apply pressure) Right column: what situations or symptoms they relate to Bottom: one full-sentence summary using a zero or first conditional
Procedure: Students work in groups of 3. Each chooses one symptom from the listening (or a teacher prompt) and must: Describe what happened Summarize what the speaker advised Add one new warning or suggestion of their own They present as a quick report to another group or the class.
Procedure: Each student writes: 1 phrase they learned (e.g., use a towel, check for a pulse) What emergency it connects to One zero or first conditional sentence using that phrase Instructor reviews a few aloud, focusing on clarity and proper structure.
