Activity 1: Warm-up · 5 minutes
Predicting the listening task
a) Aims
Ss activate prior knowledge about World Heritage sites and predict the kind of information they need to catch in the recording.
b) Content
T shows the photo of Tràng An and asks Ss: What is heritage? Why do we preserve heritage sites? Then T shows the four questions of the listening task and asks Ss to predict the kind of information each question needs (a property type, a year, a deadline, an activity), not the answer.
c) Expected outcomes
- Ss state that heritage means things passed down from the past that people preserve.
- Ss list the four information types: property type, inscription year, deadline, activity of the class.
- Ss understand that numbers and dates may refer to different things (a year, a deadline, a time).
d) Organisation
Teacher's activities
Students' activities
Teacher
Step 1: Task delivering
T shows the photo of Tràng An and asks: What is heritage? Why do we preserve heritage sites? T says: Before listening, look at the four questions and predict what kind of information you need, not the answers.
Students
Ss look at the photo and the questions, and think about the type of information each question needs.
Teacher
Step 2: Task performance
T gives Ss 1 minute to discuss in pairs and monitors. T prompts: Which question needs a year? Which needs a day of the week?
Students
Ss discuss in pairs. Expected answer: Question 3 needs a year; Question 4 needs a day of the week; Question 2 needs a property type; Question 5 needs an activity.
Teacher
Step 3: Report and discussion
T calls on 2 pairs to share their predictions and writes the four information types on the board.
Students
Ss report: We need the type of property, the year, the deadline and what the class is doing.
Teacher
Step 4: Conclusion and assessment
T confirms the predictions and reminds Ss: Numbers can refer to different things, so separate a deadline from a time or a year. T introduces the lesson aim: Extract gist and specific information from an original recording.
Students
Ss write the lesson aim in their notebooks.