New lesson plan: Annoying sounds lesson

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Annoying sounds lesson - Upper-intermediate level

Annoying sounds lesson
Upper-intermediate level

Description

In this lesson, students will listen to a text about annoying sounds and do gist listening, finding specific information and detailed listening activities.

Materials

Vocabulary activities, Discussions, Comprehension questions, Statements to put order,Listening audio

Vocabulary activities, Discussions, Comprehension questions, Statements to put order,Listening audio

Main Aims

To provide gist, specific information and detailed listening practice using a text about annoying sounds in the context of sound

Subsidiary Aims

To provide fluency speaking practice in a discussion in the context of sound

Procedure (33-44 minutes)

Warmer/Lead-in (2-3 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

Teacher asks students to say some sounds that make them annoyed when they hear. To model, she gives her own annoying sound as example. She gets answers of students.

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

Students do the 2 vocabulary activities in the book (page: 154) and then they compare their answers in pairs. Teacher elicits and writes the answers on the board. Next, teacher elicits parts of speech of the same vocablary. She asks some personalising questions about the vocabulary and she drills them.

While-Listening #1 (6-8 minutes) • To provide students with less challenging gist listening task

Students listen to the text and talk about the main idea of it in pairs to choose among the options that the teacher gives. Teacher elicits the correct main idea.

While-Listening #2 (5-7 minutes) • To provide students with more challenging detailed finding specific information listening task

Students listen again to number the topics in the order they are mentioned (exercise C, p: 155). They compare their order in pairs and then teacher shows the correct order to them so that they can check.

While-Listening #3 (6-8 minutes) • To provide students with more challenging detailed listening task

Students listen again to do 5 multiple choice comprehension questions. They compare their answers when they finish. Teacher elicitis the correct answers

Post-Listening (6-8 minutes) • To provide with an opportunity to respond to the text and expand on what they've learned

Students discuss the last 2 questions in exercise E (p:165) in pairs for 3 minutes. Then they change pairs and discuss the same questions for 3 more minutes to find out how much their friends think the same as them