New lesson plan: Listening- The meaning of dreaming

Parastesh Firouzi

Listening- The meaning of dreaming - Pre- intermediate level

Listening- The meaning of dreaming
Pre- intermediate level

Description

In this lesson, the students are going to listen to an audio about a psychoanalyst talking to a patient about their dream.

Materials

Handout

Audio file

Handout

Audio file

Main Aims

To provide detailed listening practice using a text about the meaning of dreaming in the context of dreaming while asleep.

Subsidiary Aims

To provide specific information listening practice using a text about the meaning of dreaming in the context of dreaming while asleep

Procedure (37-47 minutes)

Warmer/Lead-in (4-5 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

In this stage, the students will answer the following questions in pairs: - Do you often remember your dreams? - Have you ever had the same dream more than once? - Have you ever dreamed about something that then happened? - Do you think dreams can tell us something about the future?

Pre-Reading/Listening (10-12 minutes) • To prepare students for the text and make it accessible

The students will be informed about the meaning of the following vocabularies (alongside their forms and pronunciations) and then they match the definition of the terms with the terms individually. Then they will check their answers in pairs and then with the whole class. suddenly- frightened- incredibly- freezing- interesting- interpretation

While-Reading/Listening #1 (5-8 minutes) • To provide students with less challenging gist and specific information reading/listening tasks

The students will listen to the audio (6.14), a psychoanalyst talking to a patient about his dream and then number the pictures 1-15. Then the students will check their answers with the whole class.

While-Reading/Listening #2 (10-12 minutes) • To provide students with more challenging detailed, deduction and inference reading/listening tasks

The students will listen to the audio track again and fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verbs. Then they will check the answers first in pairs and then with the whole class.

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

The students will discuss what the patient's dream means and match four of the things in his dream to interpretations 1-4 with the whole class. Then they will listen to tracks 6.15 and 6.16, check their answers in exercise 'd' and then discuss in groups what they think the meaning of picture 5 could be.