Activity 1: Warm-up · 5 minutes
Predicting the Listening Task
a) Aims
Ss activate prior knowledge about volunteer activities in the community and predict the kind of information they will need to catch in the recording.
b) Content
T shows a photo-free list of three questions on the board: 'What do you know about volunteering in your community?', 'Why do schools ask students to volunteer?', 'If you hear an announcement about a volunteer event, what information do you need most?' Ss discuss in pairs for one minute, then T asks two or three pairs to share their predictions.
c) Expected outcomes
A list of predicted information types on the board, for example: number of people needed, time to arrive, who is in charge, and the deadline to apply. Ss realise that they should listen for these details rather than for every word.
d) Organisation
Teacher's activities
Students' activities
Teacher
Step 1: Task delivering
T writes the three questions on the board and says: 'Look at these questions. Work in pairs and think of the information you need to catch if you hear an announcement about a volunteer event.' T sets a time limit of one minute.
Students
Ss read the questions silently and understand the task.
Teacher
Step 2: Task performance
T circulates and listens to pairs, giving help with vocabulary when needed (volunteer (tình nguyện viên), community (cộng đồng)).
Students
Ss discuss in pairs. Possible answers: 'We need to know how many people are needed.' 'We need the time and place.' 'We need to know who is in charge and when we must apply.'
Teacher
Step 3: Report and discussion
T invites two or three pairs to share. T writes the predicted information types on the board in four columns: number, time, person, deadline.
Students
Ss report their predictions. For example: 'We should listen for the number of volunteers.' 'We should check the arrival time.'
Teacher
Step 4: Conclusion and assessment
T praises relevant predictions and says: 'Good. Before you listen, always predict the type of information. This helps you listen for gist and specific information.'
Students
Ss copy the four types of information into their notebooks.