Andrea Tapia Andrea Tapia

Listening Jobs
Pre-intermediate level

Materials

Main Aims

  • To provide listening practice for gist and detail in the context of jobs and interests

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide clarification and review of job words in the context of looking for a job. To provide fluency speaking practice in a roleplay dialogue in the context of looking for jobs.

Procedure

Warmer/Lead-in (3-5 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

Elicit from Ss what kind of job they would like to have in the future and why. Ask if they have ever had a part-time or summer job.

Pre-Reading/Listening (5-7 minutes) • To prepare students for the text and make it accessible

Meaning: Show G-Slide, with different jobs. Ss need to match the jobs to their descriptions. You can make a lot of money doing this. (accountant) This can be dangerous (fireman, firefighter) You have to study a long time to do this. (doctor) You can work at home. (writer) This is a job where you can really help people. (nurse) You have to be very patient to do this. (psychologist) You have to be good at languages to do this. (Translator) You have to be very good with kids to do this. (nanny) Form Clarify that all of these are nouns (profession/job titles) and usually appear after the verb ‘to be’ or after action verbs like ‘become’ or ‘want to be’. Point structures: "He is a doctor" → (noun after verb to be) "She wants to be a writer" → (verb + infinitive + noun) "My aunt works as an accountant" → (verb + preposition + article + noun) Pronunciation: Ss will repeat each word after the teacher. They will need to identify how many syllables each word has. They will be asked to mark the stressed syllable. aCCOUNtant (3) FIREfighter (4) DOCtor (2) WRIter (2) psyCHOLogist (4) transLAtor (3) Choral and individual drilling

While-Reading/Listening #1 (5-6 minutes) • To provide students with less challenging gist and specific information reading/listening tasks

Tell students they will listen to four people talking about themselves about their interests and possible jobs. Show them the picture of the 4 people. Ask students to read the interests and try to guess which person will have each interest. Play audio once, and ask students to match the correct person with the correct interest. Did they guess correctly?

While-Reading/Listening #2 (7-9 minutes) • To provide students with more challenging detailed, deduction and inference reading/listening tasks

Show Ss the slide with some phrases with gaps. Highlight the missing words in the sentences. Tell Ss they will listen a second time and complete those gaps. Ask Ss to find their named slides and give you the thumbs up when they have done so. Play audio again and let them complete their slides. Put Ss in BORs to compare answers. Show answers on penultimate slide.

Post-Reading/Listening (15-18 minutes) • To provide with an opportunity to respond to the text and expand on what they've learned

1. Show the students the slide of Useful Language. Check vocabulary for comparing ideas and agreeing and disagreeing. Ask students to think on a possible job suitable for each person. Say why and share ideas with your classmate. Give 5 minutes to let students discuss in breakout rooms if possible. 2. Check answers and ideas in group. 3. Put students again in groups. Ask students to talk about what do they look in a job? Which would be their perfect job. Talk about interests, possible jobs and reasons. Ask them to use the useful language as much as they can.

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