lesson plan english 11 unit 8 listening

T may play the tape one more time for Ss to catch the difficult phrases.. - T introduces the listening passage: Today you are going to listen to 2 people talking about how the New Year i

ENGLISH 11

UNIT8: CELEBRATIONS

LISTENING

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Teaching date

I Objectives:

By the end of the lesson, students are able to:

- develop the listening micro-skill of intensive listening for specific information

- give their own opinion about the similarities and differences

between New Year holiday in Vietnam and Japan

II Anticipated problems :

Ss cannot catch the difficult

phrases from listening at first

time

T may play the tape one more time for Ss to catch the

difficult phrases

Some Ss can’t complete the

task at the first time they listen T might want to let Ss to listenone more time and pause at the

answers for them to catch

III Teaching aids : Blackboard, textbook, chalk , videocassetle,

projector

IV Procedure:

Stage Time Activities Interaction

Pre-listening

10 mins

I Warm-up :Guessing game

- T divides class into 2 groups : A &

B

- Rule of the game: Each group sends a representative to play the game He or she will go and stand in the front of the class with their back facing the board T will write a word/phrase which was learnt from the previous lesson on the board

Other Ss from each group have to explain the word without mentioning

it or translating it into Vietnamese so that their representative can guess the word The student with the quickest and correct answer will get

1 point for their group Ss take turn

to be the representative After some turns, the group with more points will be the winner

-Ss listen to the rule and play the

T↔SS SS↔SS

game together

Words / phrase: Thanksgiving, Mid-autumn festival, grand, pray,

agrarian, lucky money

- T introduces the listening passage: Today you are going to listen to 2 people talking about how the New Year is celebrated in Japan Before you listen, do the task on page 94

- T asks Ss to work in pairs to guess which of the activities on page 94 the Japanese often do on their New Year’s Day

- T calls some Ss to give their

answers and write them on the

boards

Pre-teaching vocabulary

- T helps Ss to pronounce the words given in the book

-T reads aloud first and asks Ss to

repeat in chorus and individually.

- T elicits some words taken from the listening passage:

Shrine: a place where people come

to worship because it is connected with a holy person or event(đền thờ)

Longevity: long life(tuổi thọ)

+ synonym of “ longlife”

Pine trees: (cây thông) What is this

tree called?

Constancy: (bền lòng, kiên định)

How can I say “ sự kiên định” in

To represent: to be a symbol of sth

(tượng trưng cho)

- T may get Ss to make sentences with the words and gives corrective feedback

While-listening

20 mins

TASK 1

Instruction: You are going to listen

to 2 people talking about how the New Year is celebrated in Japan

Listen and tick the things you hear

- Before Ss listen and do the task, T asks them to read through the

statements

-Ss read through the statements

-Then T instructs them to use some strategies to do the task:

+ First, read through the statements

to understand them and underline key words For example, the key words in the first statement are : put

on, special, clothes + Listen to the tape and pay

T↔SS SS↔SS

attention to the key words

+ Tick the things they hear in the appropriate boxes

- T plays the tape once for Ss to do the task

-Ss listen to the tape and find the answers

- T asks for Ss’ answers and writes them on the board

- T plays the tape the second time for Ss to check their answers

-Ss listen to the tape in the second time

- T asks Ss to work in groups of 4 to compare their answers

-Ss work in groups to check and compare the answers

- T checks Ss’ answers by calling on some Ss

- Suggested answers:

+ They put on special clothes

+ Housewives prepare special foods + They go to a shrine

+ They drink rice wine

+ They watch television

+ They eat a special meal.

TASK 2

Instruction: You are going to listen

to the tape again and answer the Qs

- Before Ss listen to the tape again to

do the task, T asks them to try to answer the Qs with the things they remember from the previous times

of listening

-Ss try to remember ans answer the

Qs

- T plays the tape again for Ss to do the task

-Ss listen to the tape again

- After playing the tape, T gets Ss to work in pairs and check their

answers

-Ss work in pairs to check the

answers

- T calls on some pairs to give the answers and elicits feedback from other Ss

Suggested answers:

1 Because they want to get rid of the dirt of the old year and welcome the new year

2 From television or the radio

3 Kimonos or special dress.

4 No, New Year is mostly celebrated among family only

Post-listening

15 mins:

Activity 1:

-T asks Ss to work in pairs to compare the aspects of the Vietnamese New Year with those of the Japanese one

Aspects: + preparations

+ foods and clothes + activities on New Year + people to celebrate with

- Before Ss take part in the activity,

T provides the transition signals/phrases to talk about the similarities and differences between

2 things

Suggestion:

Simmilarities Differences Similarly, A different view

is

SS↔SS

likewise, However

whereas, In contrast,

Like On the contrary

On the other hand

-Ss work in pairs to discuss the topic

-T goes around to offer help and collect Ss’ mistakes

- T calls on some pairs to present their answers

- T elicits feedback from the class and gives final comments T may also correct the mistakes he/she has collected

-T asks the Ss to learn by heart all the new words

Activity 2:

-T provide Ss with a model listening tape about the comparison between

Vietnamese New Year and Japanese one

-T gives each Ss a paper containing the tapescript and some missing words

-Ss are required to listen to the audio and fill in blanks

-After listening, T will check answer with class

Homework: Ss learn more about

customs and traditions in several holidays around Vietnam