Lesson plan
School: No.11 Vladikavkaz Class for lesson implementation: 7
Topic
of the lesson: Communication. Listening to a lecture in a foreign language. Name of the teacher: Anetta Kuznetsova Developing listening skills The
aim
of the lesson: by the end of the lesson the Ss will be able to -listen and understand a humorous story about giving lectures in a foreign language
Objectives
: by the end of the lesson the Ss will be able to -find specific information while listening -discuss the contents and solve the problems given in the story -retell the story from the character's person -guess the contents from the title of the story -elicit the main idea of the story while listening to it.
Materials
used: Taped story "Laugh, Please" textbook English VII by O. V. Afanasyeva cards with phrases for matching New l-ge of the lesson: to give lectures, to make sure, to get the idea of, to keep smb happy, afterwards, to cope with, to go on well, spoken English, to make notes. Language to be revised: to practise, an interpreter, amusing, to allow.
LESSON PROCEDURE
№ Description of activity/step of the lesson Aim of the activity Patterns of inter- action Time 1. 2. 3. 4. Warm-Up. Answer the questions. -Have you ever listened to a story/a lecture in English? -What was easy/difficult? Why? -Did you understand everything? How much did you understand? -What did you do to understand it better? -Did you have to ask clarifying questions? -What was your impression of the lecture? of the speaker? Pre-listening activity. Vocabulary work. Match the phrases to their equivalents to make sure you know their meaning. Group work. Cards to dive lectures then to make sure to put down to get the idea of to have a success to keep smb happy to manage afterwards to understand to cope with to make a speech far more difficult to make smb happy spoken English to find out to go on well very difficult to make notes social English Choose the speaker. Present your ideas to the class. Guessing (predicting). Look at the title of the story "Laugh, Please" and try to guess what the story will be about. Discuss your ideas with the partners. Present your ideas to the class. Listen to the story and say why the famous writer was surprised. Compare your answer to your partner's answer and tell your answer to the class. Listen to the tape again and do the task Ex. 52a p. 45 in your textbook. Choose which of the two is true. Compare your answers to your partner's ones and tell your to lead the Ss into the communicative activity based around the topic "Communication. Listening to a lecture in a foreign language" to revise and practice some phrases the Ss will hear in the story to make understanding easier, to help the Ss to get the most out of what they are going to hear. to practice guess ing (predicting) the contents ac- cording to the title to practice to elicit the main idea of the story while listening to it. to find the specific info while listening to the story T-Class group work 3-4 groups of 3 Ss pair or group work individ. pair work individ 3-4 min 2-3 min 3-4 min 5-6 min
5. 6. 7. answers to the class. Choose the correct answer. Post-listening activity. Discussion. Discuss the following questions in groups. Ex 52B p. 45 Retell the story as if you're a famous writer an interpreter a Japanese student. Use the word-combinations of task 2 of this lesson. Assignment. Tell a story about some humorous situation you've experienced in communication. to practise in solving the problem while discussing the contents and the ideas of the story to practise in reporting the story from the character's person pair work group work individ 5-6 min 6-7 min 10-12 min 1-2 min Laugh, Please 1. The writer thought that writing books is _________ giving lectures. a)easier than b)as easy as c)more difficult than 2. The writer knew that most of the students _______________________. a)could understand English b)weren’t able to get the idea c) could understand Japanese 3. He asked __________________ to help him. a) one of the students b)his friend c) a professional linguist 4. At the end of the lecture the writer told________________________. a) a funny story b) a tragic story c) a boring story 5. The interpreter _________________________________. a) told the whole story b)made the story very short c)didn’t tell the story at all Text for listening Laugh, Please. Once there lived a famous writer who practised giving lectures to university students. At times he found it more difficult than writing books, especially when he talked to foreign students. Last year when the writer was visiting Japan he was invited to give a lecture to a large group of students. He knew that most of them could not understand spoken English. So he asked an interpreter to help him to make sure that the students would get the idea of what he was saying. His lecture went on very well. It seemed that the students didn't have a problem understanding him and made careful notes of the lecture. At the end of the lecture the writer, who liked to keep the listeners happy, told them an amusing story. The story was long and he stopped to allow the interpreter to translate it into Japanese. The writer was very surprised when the interpreter did this in a few seconds and all the students laughed loudly afterwards. When the lecture was over, the writer thanked the interpreter for his good work and then he asked him how he had coped with that long story so quickly, how he made it so short. "I didn't tell your story at all,' the interpreter answered with a smile." I just said, our lecturer has just told a funny story. You will laugh, please."