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B1+ level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To develop students’ listening skills through the context of a sports-related story (about a referee), focusing on understanding key details, gist, and inference, and to review and clarify the correct use and differences between the past simple, past continuous, and past perfect tenses in narrative contexts.
Subsidiary Aims
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To give students practice in using narrative tenses to describe past events accurately and fluently, and to encourage peer-teaching to boost engagement and retention through collaborative grammar clarification.
Procedure
Write on board: "Who makes decisions when people disagree?" → Elicit answers: judges, teachers, parents, referees Ask: "Do you think referees have an easy job?" → Quick pair discussion "Have you ever seen a referee make a mistake?" → Share with class (brief)
Briefly go over new or tricky words from the listening (e.g., referee, decision, mistake, crowd, argue, fair play) Use CCQs and simple examples: Referee: “Does a referee play the game? (No) Does he decide the rules? (Yes)” Crowd: “Is it one person or many? (Many)”
First listen – General idea Play audio Question: “Why is the referee being interviewed?” → Students discuss and share their answers. Second listen – Detailed questions (in SB) Give them questions from the book Whole class feedback Ask: “Do you agree with how the referee handled the situation?” Post-Listening: "Have you ever been in a situation where you had to make a hard decision like a referee?" → Open short discussion
