Activity 1: Warm-up · 5 minutes
Predicting the Content of the Interview
a) Aims
Ss activate their prior knowledge of school music events and predict the kind of information the listening requires from the questions.
b) Content
T shows a picture of a school music festival and asks: What happens at a music festival? Who usually takes part? Ss then read the questions in Exercises 2–5 quietly and decide what information they need to catch, for example times, names of acts, favourite performances or future plans. Ss do not look for the answers yet.
c) Expected outcomes
A list of 3–4 predictions on the board, for example: - The time when the first act begins.
- The name of the opening act.
- The performance Minh likes most.
- What Minh plans to do next year.
d) Organisation
Teacher's activities
Students' activities
Teacher
Step 1: Task delivering
T shows the picture and asks: What happens at a music festival? Who usually takes part? T asks Ss to read the questions in Exercises 2–5 silently and think about what information they must listen for.
Students
Ss look at the picture, answer the questions in whole-class discussion and read the questions silently.
Teacher
Step 2: Task performance
T monitors and encourages Ss to focus on the type of information (time, name, performance, plan), not on the answer options.
Students
Ss work in pairs and say what kind of information each question asks for, e.g. 'Question 2 asks for a time.'
Teacher
Step 3: Report and discussion
T invites 3–4 pairs to report and writes their predictions on the board.
Students
Ss report, for example: 'We think they will talk about the time of the first act and the best performance.'
Teacher
Step 4: Conclusion and assessment
T confirms that predicting the type of information helps Ss listen with a clear purpose and states that the listening will be checked later.
Students
Ss copy the key idea into their notebooks: Predict the information needed from the question, not from the answer.