Unit 1: Communicating in English Week 1 I. Aims and objectives - Improve St’s listening comprehension skills: Listening for details , Listening for main idea - Clarify types of listening test - Be able to listen to conversations about greeting and describing people then rearrange the conversations, match the pictures…. II. Materials: - Textbook: Let’s talk 1, Listen in 1 - Hand-out: sample of conversations, word games about describing people. III. Procedure: 1. Organization: 2. New lesson: Unit 1: Communicating in English Teacher’ activities Sts’ activities &Work arrangement Warm up: (3 mins) + rises some QS to help Sts concentrate on their lesson - Do you all know each other? - How many people do you know well in the class? - How can you get information when you meet a stranger? - What information do you want to know at the first meet? + Tells Sts what they are going to study Pre-listening: ( 10 mins) 1. Brainstorm -Provide Sts useful words/ phrases related to the topic - ask Sts to work in groups of four or five, make a brainstorm map and list as many Qs as they can if want to get to know others - check their work and correct Stranger: name, age, interest, family, school, favourite subject, hometown, job… 2. Word game -ask Sts to change the group -deliver them handouts, ask them to group all the words into theme and give more word in each theme Whole class Individuals Work in groups Point out all the theme/ Qs that relate to the topic Take note Change the group Do the word game - check their work and provide suggestion While-listening: (22 mins) Task 1: ask Sts to listen to the conversations and rearrange its order -check their work: Conversation1: 3-1-4-5-2 Conversation 2: 3-5-2-4-1 Task 2: ask sts to listen to a radio interview, tick the Qs that the DJ asks the fashion designer. -ask Sts listen for the first time and check the Qs only -correct their work: 1-b, 2-a, 3-a, 4-b, 5-a, 6-b. -ask Sts to listen the second time and answer the Qs - correct their answer: 1. Toronto 2. In Europe 3.2 brothers &3 sisters 4. French 5. mainly in France 6. All kinds of music Task 3: ask Sts listen to two conversations and fill in the blanks: -check their answer: City’s name: New Rochelle Zip code: 10801 Man’s first name: Edwin Man’s last name: Horowitg Cat’s name: Tiny Post-listening: (9mins) -ask Sts to make an interview to find out personal information Homework (1 min) - ask Sts to finish HW: Listen in 1 - Unit 1 - Tasks 5, 6, 7 - prepare for the next lesson Play the game Take note Take note Individual Take not Individuals Pair work Take note