New lesson plan: The same but different

Mahsa Mehrolhassani

The same but different - Upper Intermediate level

The same but different
Upper Intermediate level

Description

In this lesson the students will focus on their listening skills. The tasks will provide the students with information about women's roles. The lesson will provide some critical thinking and lead to a debate in men and women roles in their country.

Materials

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Sentence order, Detailed listening questions, Discussion questions

Main Aims

To provide gist and detailed listening practice using a text about men lie and women cry in the context of roles of men and women

Subsidiary Aims

To provide fluency speaking practice in a discussion in the context of men and women roles

Procedure (45-55 minutes)

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

Write career, marriage, family on the board. tell the student to brainstorm the different opinions men and women have about these 3 topics. Elicit some ideas.

Pre-Listening (10-12 minutes) • To prepare students for the text and make it accessible

The students work in small groups. The students think of typical male and female roles in their country. they take notes on a scrap paper. They then swap the paper with the groups, compare and explain what they have written. Elicit some from the students and put the most common roles on the WB.

While-Reading/Listening #1 (10-12 minutes) • To provide students with less challenging gist and specific information reading/listening tasks

Write ' Why men lie and women cry'. Ask the students to guess what the listening is going to be about. Give the students exercise 1, tell the students, to look at the sentences and give their opinion about these sentences to their partner. explain that they are going to listen to Naomi, Polly and Matt discussing the roles of men and women. They listen and put the sentences into the correct order they talk about them.

While-Listening #2 (14-16 minutes) • To provide students with more challenging detailed, deduction and inference reading/listening tasks

Distribute exercise 2. Ask the students to look at the 7 questions. Explain that they will listen to the track again and work individually to complete the task. Give the students 2 minutes after listening to peer check and complete their answers. Monitor but don't intervene. If needed play the recording one more time. Give a paper ball to a student, nominating him/her to provide the correct answer. Provide the correct answer if its answered false. The student throws the ball to whoever he/she wants to nominate for the next sentence. Continue until all the sentences are corrected.

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

The students are told to stand up and get in line according to their names in alphabetical order. Ex: Ahmet, Caner, Emine, Ipek, Sevgi, Yasin, etc. Put the students in to groups of three. (Ahmet, Caner, Emine --- ipek, Sevgi, Yasin,) Give each group the discussion questions. The groups discuss their opinions, supporting their ideas and asking follow up questions to their group members for further understanding. Join group discussions, prompt ideas if needed. If time, write ' Women without her man is nothing' the students look at this sentence and are told to put punctuation. ex: women, without her man, is nothing (importance of man)/ women; without her, man is nothing.(importance of women) discuss the different meaning that arise.