Activity 1: Warm-up · 5 minutes
Predicting the Topic
a) Aims
Ss activate prior knowledge about food and meals and predict the topic of the listening text from the unit title Food and drink.
b) Content
T shows pictures of breakfast, lunch and dinner dishes and asks: What do you usually eat for breakfast? How many main meals do you have a day? Ss then predict what the listening talk will be about, based on the title Food and drink.
c) Expected outcomes
Ss give 2–3 predictions in English, for example: 'The talk is about meals.' / 'The speaker talks about breakfast, lunch and dinner.' / 'The speaker describes her family's food.' Ss write the topic in their notebook.
d) Organisation
Teacher's activities
Students' activities
Teacher
Step 1: Task delivering
T shows the unit title Food and drink and the pictures. T asks: What do you see in the pictures? What is the topic of today's listening?
Students
Ss look at the pictures and the title, and think about the topic silently for 30 seconds.
Teacher
Step 2: Task performance
T asks Ss to work in pairs and tell each other what they usually eat for breakfast and lunch.
Students
Ss talk in pairs, for example: 'I usually eat rice and vegetables for lunch.' 'I have bread and milk for breakfast.'
Teacher
Step 3: Report and discussion
T invites 2–3 pairs to share their predictions with the class and writes the most likely topic on the board.
Students
Representative Ss say: 'The talk is about food and meals.' Other Ss add ideas, for example: 'It may be about mealtimes.'
Teacher
Step 4: Conclusion and assessment
T confirms that predicting from the topic helps Ss focus while listening, and introduces the aim: listen for the main ideas and details.
Students
Ss write the lesson title and the aim in their notebooks.