Not only does this lesson allow learners to practise their listening skills by listening to other non-native speakers discussing the way they learn, it also gives them the opportunity to put what they hear immediately into practice. The activities here use the learning suggestions made in the extract and put them into a real learning context. The students will be encouraged to experiment with the learning strategies discussed in the audio with the end objective being to analyse their own learning styles. This lesson should be backed up with the continued use of the personalised learning tools created during the class and homework tasks. If you don’t have access to audio players, you can still do the lesson using the script of the audio text.

Topic: Idioms

Age: Teenage/adult

Level: Upper-Intermediate to Advanced

Timing: 60-90 mins

Aims:

• To apply listening skills to an audio extract of non-native speakers
• To raise awareness of personal learning styles
• To provide concrete learning aids to enable learners to better exploit their strengths for learning a language
• To expand vocabulary focusing primarily on idioms

Plan components

Audio files:

•  2.94 Mb Mp3 - Learning styles
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• Download audio script 25k pdf

Lesson plan: detailed guide for teacher including answers to tasks and suggestions for a wide range of follow-up activities

Download lesson plan 154k pdf

Worksheets: - exercises which can be printed out for class. The worksheets contain:

• Listening tasks
• A personal dictionary template
• Grammar cards
• Blank cards for a grammar game invention workshop
• Learner styles questionnaire
• Lesson feedback questionnaire

Download worksheets 90k pdf

For more information about this topic you can visit these British Council and BBC sites:

• http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/professionals-podcasts
• http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/business-and-work

Jo Bertrand, British Council, Paris

The plans and worksheets are downloadable and in pdf format. If you have difficulty downloading the materials see the download section of the Help page.

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