Activity 1: Warm-up · 5 minutes
Chores at home: getting ready to listen
a) Aims
Ss activate prior knowledge about household chores and predict the kind of information the listening will contain.
b) Content
T shows the picture-based question: 'Who does the chores in your family?' T asks Ss to write three chores on the board, then predicts the listening topic. T shows the question list of the listening tasks and asks Ss to predict what kind of information each question requires (a day, a person, a duration, a reason).
c) Expected outcomes
- A list of 3 to 5 household chores written by Ss, such as wash the dishes, sort the clothes, fold the clothes, clean the kitchen.
- A prediction: the listening is an interview with a student about chores in his family; the questions ask for days, people, durations and reasons.
- Ss understand that the question tells them what to listen for, not the answer.
d) Organisation
Teacher's activities
Students' activities
Teacher
Step 1: Task delivering
T asks: 'Who does the chores in your family? What chores do you do every day?' T shows the six new words and asks Ss to read them aloud with the correct /br/, /kr/, /tr/ blends in brother, crowded, try.
Students
Ss look at the picture and the words, then answer the question in pairs: 'I wash the dishes. My brother sweeps the floor.'
Teacher
Step 2: Task performance
T shows the question list and asks: 'Which questions ask about a day? About a person? About a time? About a reason?'
Students
Ss predict in pairs. Expected answer: 'The question on day asks for a day of the week. The question on how long asks for a time. The question on what mattered asks for a reason.'
Teacher
Step 3: Report and discussion
T invites 2 or 3 pairs to share their predictions and writes the key ideas on the board.
Students
Representatives report. Expected answer: 'We think the listening is about chores in a family. The questions need days, people, durations and reasons.'
Teacher
Step 4: Conclusion and assessment
T confirms the topic and explains: 'Read the question first, then decide what information to catch. Do not look at the answer options yet.' T introduces the aim of the lesson: to extract gist and specific information from an original recording.
Students
Ss write the aim and the strategy in their notebooks: 'Predict from the question; listen for the information needed.'