This lesson takes a different approach to developing listening skills. It enables each student to participate at their own level. There are no questions with correct answers or incorrect answers, instead the students do a number of different tasks and attempt to extract information from the text. They are then able to read the text and check their own answers. The teacher should act as a guide and facilitator and only input language when students ask for it and clarify misunderstandings. The lesson has a number of prompts which help the students to build their own understanding of the text.
Topic: Discovering Sunderland
- To develop students’ ability to take information from quite a difficult listening text.
- To develop their deeper listening skills
- To develop students reading skills
- To find out a little more about a part of the UK
Plan components
Lesson plan: guide for teacher on procedure.
Worksheets: can be printed out for use in class.
worksheet - Word cloud images for listening activity
Audio files
Audio - Interview
Audio - Clip 1
Audio - Clip 2
Audio - Clip 3
Audio - Clip 4
By Nik Peachey
The plans and worksheets are downloadable and in pdf format - right click on the attachment below and save it on your computer.
Copyright - please read
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| Attachment | Size |
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| AMY.mp3 | 3.59 MB |
| clip1.mp3 | 130.24 KB |
| clip2.mp3 | 91.88 KB |
| clip3.mp3 | 105.35 KB |
| clip4.mp3 | 80.86 KB |
| Lesson plan: Sunderland | 415.38 KB |
| Worksheet: Sunderland | 985.97 KB |
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Comments
That's a good lesson. I have already download the materials. Recently I have done listening lesson for my students. Actually It was first time I have done it. To tell the truth only some of my students like it. Most of them had difficult with understanding albeit it wasn't difficult listening activity. But I want to do it anyway. I think they need to accustom to listen and understnd the native speakers and different accents. But Ihave a question .How an I make it more interesting for my students at least involve most of them? Pre listening, while listening and post listening activities acn make it more interesting. May be I should just use the easiest listening topics.