Listening    Speaking      Reading    Grammar   Writing

Topic:

What's your Dream Job?

Instructor: nick	Level: Advanced	Students: 12	Length: 50 Minutes

Materials:

-  Newspapers, magazines or other references.

-  Scissors, glues, office supplies.

-  Laptop & projector

-  Listening worksheet (12 copies each)

-  White board, board markers

-  Idioms worksheet (12 copies)

Aims:

- To learn vocabulary and expressions for describing one's character and relationships by        completing an idioms matching worksheet

- To learn vocabulary about occupation in various field by looking at the pictures and the        articles in the newspaper and magazine.

- To practice listening to real-life speech of people with various accents.

- To be able to pick up details from the fast-paced real-life talk by answering details

questions on a worksheet

- To practice speaking by discussing with group members.

- To know what dream job is by doing the activity.

Language Skills:

- Reading: Idioms worksheet, Reading articles in newspaper or magazine.

- Listening: The speakers' interview about themselves and what is the dream job for them

- Speaking: Speech about what's their dream job and why, comparing opinions

within groups

- Writing: creating life with their dream job

Language Systems:

- Lexis: Idioms used in describing people's personalities and various situations

- Function: share opinions about what people think of dream job.

Assumptions:

Students already know:

- How long the lesson will take.

- Some of the students know about dream job project

Anticipated Errors and   Solutions:

- Students may not be able to follow the passage easily

-> Follow the task-feedback circle: let them listen to the tracks again until they get the

gist of the content

- Students may not be able to pick up details from the listening

-> Chunk the listening (pause-play-pause-play)

- Students may not be able to choose their own dream job

-> They don't have enough information. Show them some example's from the internet.

- If time is short

-> Cut post-activity discussion short and only ask 2~3 students to share their opinions

about what's characteristic of dream job.

- If students finish their tasks earlier than anticipated

-> Share idea about dream job of me with students.

References:

- American reality TV show "Dream job" from ESPN

- BBC the news program

- Idioms from Refining composition skills by HEINLE company

Lead-In
Materials: Laptop & projector
Time	Set Up	Student Activity	Teacher Talk
5 min	Whole class	- Looking at the picture - Listen to teacher	Hi guys, how was your weekend? Have you heard about dream job project? look at the picture. How do you think what it is? (Elicit the idea about dream job) All right, we are going to listen to some people who are challenging for their dream job. Before getting start, we will learn some idioms.

Pre-Activity
Materials: Idioms Worksheet, Board, magazines and newspapers
Time	Set Up	Student Activity	Teacher Talk
10min	Whole class	- Filling the blank of the idiom worksheet - Sharing opinions each other. - Searching idioms from the magazine and newspaper	Instruction Work group of 4. Fill the blank in the worksheet by using magazine and newspaper. You have 6 minutes to do this. CCQ How many students each group have? How much time do you have? - Go through the idioms one by one (using board) - Elicit the meaning from students - Explain the meaning if necessary

Main Activity
Materials: Laptop & projector , Magazines and newspapers , Scissors and glues , Listening work sheet ,
Time	Set Up	Student Activity	Teacher Talk
10min 15min	Whole class Individually Groups Whole class	- Listen to the news - Note key words - Answer the questions - Listen to the interview - Answer the questions on the worksheet - Prepare presentation - Present presentation - Check the answers with class	1. Listen to the news Introduction Listen to the news and try to catch key words. What do you think about dream job? What is dream job project in the news? CCQ What are you supposed to think about? After once they listened to the news, ask their opinions and key words. Then play same news with video. Question & Answer - What is dream job project? - What is dream job? - Why the job in the news considered as dream job? 2. Listen to four different people Introduction Listen to the speakers one by one with the video. Answer the questions on the worksheet as you listen. Work individually. CCQ What are you supposed to do? Are you working alone? Play interview 1. Let students write answers as they listen. Do you need to listen again? - yes > play interview 1 again - no > play interview 2. (Follow the same cycle until finished with interview 4) Now group of 4 take one interview and make agreement and prepare for presentation. You can use pictures from magazine and newspaper related to the interview. All groups present their presentation. Check the Answers as a whole class after the presentations.

Post Activity
Materials: Magazine & newspaper , scissor and glue
Time	Set Up	Student Activity	Teacher Talk
10min	individually Group	- Making their own dream job - Asking student's dream job - Sharing their own opinion. - Note their homework	Intruduction What is your dream job? why? make your own dream job using pictures or article in the magazine or newspaper. you have 6 minutes to do it. CCQ What are you supposed to do? For how long? Ask classmates dream job and ask why. Conclude lesson Elicit today's idioms for students Give homework Searching idioms that you learned today in books , magazine or newspaper. Good job today guys. See you tomorrow!