A food festival

Introduction

When students are going to do a listening activity, it is useful to get them thinking about the topic of the listening beforehand. That way they can reactivate and extend their store of vocabulary. In this lesson, students first discuss the topic of food festivals, then they focus on their listening skills in preparation for part 2 of the B2 First listening test.

Through a series of activities students will become more aware of what to ‘notice’ in a gap fill listening exercise, enabling them to do the Listening part 2 more successfully.

Aims

• To encourage students to predict which parts of speech are missing in gapped texts.
• To familiarise students with part 2 of the Listening test of the FCE exam.
• To develop students’ listening skills.

Materials

• Lesson plan
• Worksheets (1, 2A, 2B, 3)
  Note to teachers: worksheet 1 is reproduced twice on the page to reduce paper usage. Cut in half and give one half to each pair. You may also wish to copy worksheet 3 on the back of worksheets 2A and 2B to reduce paper usage.
• Audio script
  The plans and worksheets are downloadable and in pdf format - right click on the attachment and save it on your computer.