Listening Lesson Plan

Title: Blind Date

Instructor:

Ben

Level:

Advanced

# of students:

9

Length:

40 mins.

Materials:

A picture for guessing the title of today’s lesson

9 worksheets of ‘beginning relationships(fill-in-the-blanks)

4 paragraphs of one script for each group

9 idiom worksheets

Aims:

To enable Ss to improve their listening skills by having Ss listen to the others’ experience about the ‘blind date’

Ss will talk about blind date by pre-activity(advantages&disadvantages), Main-activity(listening to 4 speakers and writing applications) and Post-activity(idioms worksheet)

(personal aim) I want to manage well the timing of class.

Language Skill:

Listening: Ss will listen carefully to the 4 different speakers.

Speaking: Ss will speak about whom they are looking for in the speed dating competition.

Reading: each student will read 3 sentences by sentence of the paragraph.

Writing: Listening to the speakers, Ss will be doing dictation of their profile.

Language Systems:

Phonology: sounds from some words

Lexis: Vocabulary and some idioms

Discourse: matching each sentence with idioms

Assumptions:

Ss already know...

the teacher’s style of teaching and how the class set up & run

Most of ss have their own experience of blind date or know what the advantages and disadvantages are.

Ss can understand the rule of the blind date competition

the way of matching sentences with idioms

Anticipated Errors and Solutions:

Problems	Solutions

References:

Lead-in

Materials: visual(a photo of blind date)

Time:

5 mins.

Set up:

Whole class

Greeting

Hello, everyone! How was your weekend? (ask and listen to the ss freely)

OK, very good. I hope you took a rest well in your weekend.

Eliciting

(Let ss watch the picture of blind date and try to elicit their thinking about the picture)

Now, guys! let’s look at this picture. What might be this? Yes, it’s ‘blind date’.

Today’s title of the lesson is the ‘blind date’.

Is there anyone who has experienced the blind date? How was that?

(Listen carefully to Ss)

Thank you for sharing your experiences! Now we will think about the topic with the worksheet.

Pre-activity

Materials: worksheet(fill-in-the-blanks), board and marker

Time:

10 mins.

Set up:

indivisual work

in pairs

fill-in the blanks on worksheet

I will give you 1min to fill in the blanks, and you are going to work as indivisual. you have to start when I say go, ok?

ICQs	What are we going to do? How many times do we have? Are we working as groups or indivisual?

2. Discuss about the advantages and disadvantages of the blind date.

Now, let’s speak ‘blind’ ‘date’ (for creating groups). Ok, the ‘blind’ is on this side and ‘date’ is on the other side. let’s discuss about the advantages and disadvantages of the blind date. I’ll give you 5mins to discuss and after discussing, we are going to write down on the board. Let’s start!

CCQs with ‘competible’

Main activity

Materials: Listening script(by 4 paragraphs for each group), listening worksheet

Time:

15 mins.

Set up:

3 groups in the whole class

Instruction:

- making 3 groups and giving a paragraph(about the speaker’s profile) for each group

while one group reads their script, the others fill the profile(it’s like dictation)

one student doesn’t have to read more than 3 sentences.

after the activity finishes, I ask the ss about the information they catch up.

Demonstration:

First, I’m going to read the 1st speaker’s profile and you guys listen carefully!

(Ss just listen. And after finishing reading...)

Now, I’ll read this again more slowly, so everybody fills the speaker’s profile on your worksheet.

(after demonstration, the groups do the activity in a whole class according to the instruction)

(Q-A with Ss)

Post activity

Materials: Idioms worksheet

Time:

10 mins.

Set up:

pair work

Instruction:

Let’s have a activity! Match the first part of each sentence with the second part containing idioms.

I’ll give you 5mins and you work in pairs.

After finishing, one student write down the answer on the board.

you start when I say go!

ICQs	What are we going to do? How many times do we have? Are we working as groups or indivisual?

(after finishing activity, I check the answer and give some error correction and explanation about the idioms)

Closing:

We did good job today! Did you enjoy our activities? I hope you did. We will continue to work more next time, so I hope to see you in the next class.

Do you have any question? (If they no, close the class)

Then, see you tomorrow!