New lesson plan: Listening Comprehension

Kimia

Listening Comprehension - Intermediate level

Listening Comprehension
Intermediate level

Description

In this lesson the students are going to listen to a boy describe the five most dangerous animals in the North America.

Materials

handout

Audio

handout

Audio

Main Aims

To provide detailed listening practice using a text about animals in the context of dangerous ones in North America

Subsidiary Aims

To provide fluency speaking practice in a conversation in the context of experiences encountering dangerous animals

Procedure (35-47 minutes)

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

the students look at the pictures of the five most dangerous land or sea animals in North America. Then they will be asked Which do you think is the most and least dangerous?why?

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 used in the text by trying to match the meaning of the words with the vocabularies individually. They will check their answers in pairs and then with the whole class. swim, ocean, surf, ponds,ft as a measure, fractions (a half, a third, a quarter, a fifth)

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 track and try to fill the animals name in the gaps.

While-Reading/Listening #2 (8-12 minutes) • To provide students with more challenging detailed, deduction and inference reading/listening tasks

Students will be asked to read the sentences on page 70, part c and then the audio file will be played again. The students need to fill the sentences. They will have 2 minutes to check their answers in pairs then we will check the answers 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

Students will be asked to talk to each other in groups of 3 and ask Are any of these animals dangerous where you live? Have you ever had a bad experience with any of them?