Listening Lesson Plan

Blind Dates

Instructor: Annie	Level: Advanced	Students: 8	Length: 30 minutes

Materials:

- A picture of 'blind date'

- 'Love and relationship cloze' worksheets

- Pictures of 4 speakers

- Listening Scripts about 4 speakers

- Listening worksheets about 4speakers(dictation papers)

- White board and board markers

Aims:

Main aim : To enable students to improve their listening skills by having students talk about blind dates.

Secondary aim : Students will talk about blind dates by having students do the three-activity (Pre, Main, post) by having students do a work sheet.

1)Pre-activity : Having students talk about advantages and disadvantages to a blind date.

2)Main-activity : Having students do listening activity (listening to 4 different speakers and writing some dictation.)

3)Post-activity  : Engaging in a speed dating competition.

Personal aim : I want to improve my teaching pace and speaking pace.

Language Skills:

Reading : students will read 'love and relationship cloze' worksheet and Listening script.

Listening : students will listen to short speeches about speakers.

Speaking : students will be comparing or students will be talking to each other about who their compatible with.

Writing : students will be doing dictation.

Language systems:

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

- Function: self-PR and an advertisement for a lifetime partner.

- Phonology: stress and pronunciation of an word 'compatible'.

- Discourse: understand some pronouns which are related in previous sentence.

- Grammar: relative clauses (usage of who)

Assumptions:

Students already know:

how the class is set up and run (there will be 3 student groups at each table)

the teacher’s style of teaching and the pace of the course

all students are single and college graduates (Age 25 and up)

most students have been on a blind date

Problems	Solutions
1)students may not be able to follow the passage easily. 2)students may not be able to pick up details from the listening. 3)If time is short	1)Follow the task-feedback circle: let them listen to the tracks again until they get the gist of the content. 2)Chunk the listening (pause-play-pause-play) 3)Cut post-activity discussion short and only ask 2~3 students to share their opinions about what's most important in a lifetime partner.

Anticipated Errors and Solutions :

References:

Impact listening 3, unit 6“Choosing a Mate”

What you need to know about Idioms by Virginia Klein

LEAD-IN
Material: One picture of Blind date , Board, Pen. Time 2 min	set up whole class	Procedure: Hello, everyone. How was your weekend? (Showing the picture) Do you know what is it in this picture? Guiding questions 1. Have you ever meet someone for blind date? 2. If someone ask you to go on a blind date, what will you do?
Pre-activity Time 2 min 2 min	set up Whole class Individually	procedure: I. LOVE AND RELATIONSHIP CLOZE Instructions Ok, I will give you this paper, and after I say go, each of you will fill in these blanks with the words in there. And I will give you 1minutes to think about it. Icqs: 1. How many time you have? 2. are you working as a group? 3. Are you start when I give you this paper or when I say go? Check answers ____, Can you read the first two sentences? _____, Can you read other sentences? Ok, good job, thank you guys.
3 min 2 min	Whole class Individually	Ⅱ.Good and bad things about blind date instruction I will give you 1 minutes, and you will write down about one disadvantage and advantage about blind date. Icqs: 1.What will you do? 2.How many time do you have? 3. Are you working individually? Draw two circles while students write down. Check answers Times up! Ok, each of you in this side will write down disadvantage of blind date, and, this side of you guys will write down advantage of blind date. Please come out and write on the board. Ok, who wrote this for advantage? _______, why do you think this is advantage of blind date? _______, why do you think this is disadvantage of blind date? Any other ideas about advantages and disadvantages? (Ask questions and give some feedbacks)
Main Activity Material: worksheet(Listening Script, Dictation), Four pictures Time 10 min	Set up Whole class Groups Individually individually	Procedure: Ⅰ.Listening the script Instructions This is David. Can you describe about David? David is looking for someone who can be compatible with. I will read a script about him, and you will listen. This is 3 minutes long. (Give dictation work sheets.) Ok, I will read you one more time. Can someone come here and help me? Any volunteer? Ok, ____will pet me everytime when you say play or rewind. Check answers what did you hear from the script? tell me one thing, Ok, __________(Pick 3 people) you guys are one group... (repeat 3 times to each group) (Give different kind of picture and script to 3 groups) Ok, now you have to listen what the person introduce him(her)self for the blind date. One group members will read this script, and other group students will write down the information on the work sheet. Icqs: 1. Are you working individually? 2. What are you going to do? Check answers What did you learn about __? tell me one thing.
Post Activity Material: Tables, chairs and board. Time 9 min	Set up Whole class Individually	Procedure: Ⅰ. SPEED DATING instructions. (Make running motion) What am I doing?? Yes, related with that. Yes! speed. So this game called 'speed dating'. (Draw speed dating situation) Ok, set the table like this. And there is one announcer here in front of you. And he will notice you when the time is up. And 4 of you guys sitting on this side, and you will only listen. And the opposite side for this table, other 4 people will sitting down and only talk about the person who can be compitable with. Each person has 1min to talk and when the time is over, move to the next sit and repeat again. Icqs: 1.What are you going to do? 2.How many time you have? 3.(explicit icq) When the time is up, which way will you go? (Monitor the students and give time warnings) Ok, ___, Did you find anyone who can be compatible with? (Make unscramble word quiz) Can you say what this word is? All right~guys you done great gob. See you next time!