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Listening (Feelings)
Elementary A1-A2 level

Description

This lesson develops students’ listening skills through a short story about two people on holiday. Students first predict the context from the pictures, then listen for gist and specific information to identify how the characters feel. Finally, they discuss and retell the story using the target vocabulary in communicative speaking activities.

Materials

Abc English File Elementary p.18
Abc An audio
Abc p.18 pictures/ picture of a family on a holiday

Main Aims

  • Listen for gist and specific information in a short conversation/story to identify the characters’ feelings and understand the sequence of events.

Subsidiary Aims

  • Use vocabulary for feelings to describe the characters and retell the story with a partner.

Procedure

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

-Show a picture of a family on holiday (or use the first picture from the book). -Ask: •Where are they? •Are they on holiday or at work? •How do they look? •Do you think they’re happy? -Elicit a few ideas without confirming any answers.

Pre-Reading/Listening (8-10 minutes) • To prepare students for the text and make it accessible

-Pre-teach Vocabulary (only if necessary) Pre-teach only words that are essential for understanding the listening, such as: -holiday, hotel, map, road, dangerous, etc. (if students don’t know it) Use pictures, gestures, or simple definitions. -Prediction Students look at the pictures in Exercise 2a. In pairs, they discuss: •Where are they? •What is happening? •How do the people feel? •What do you think will happen? -Ask ICQs •Are you listening now? (No) •Are you predicting? (Yes) -Take brief class feedback.

While-Reading/Listening #1 (15-20 minutes) • To provide students with less challenging gist and specific information reading/listening tasks

Exercise 2a -Tell students they are going to listen to a conversation between John, Lisa, who are on holiday. They need to listen carefully and write how each person feels in each picture. -Ask ICQs. -play the audio -Pair check. Exercise 2b -Tell students they are going to listen again to check their answers from Exercise 2a. -Ask ICQs •Are you doing a new exercise? (No.) •What are you checking? (My answers to Exercise 2a.) -pair check -whole class feedback. Exercise 2c -Tell students they will listen to the final part of the story to find out how it ends. -Before playing the audio, ask: “Do you think it will have a happy ending?” -Elicit the answer from students. -Ask ICQs before playing the audio. -Students listen and answer Exercise 2c individually. -Pair check. -Whole class feedback. (Ask students to explain their answers by referring to what they heard in the recording.)

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

Retell the Story -Put students in pairs. -Ask them to look at the pictures from the story. -Students take turns retelling the story in their own words using the pictures as prompts. -Encourage them to use sequencing words: •First… •Then… •After that… •Finally… Briefly explain: “These words help us tell a story in order.” -Ask ICQs. -Monitor and provide help if needed. -Invite one or two pairs to share their story with the class. (If your students struggle, ask them: •What happened at the beginning? → First… •What happened next?” → Then…

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