Advanced Listening Lesson Plans
These are the worksheets. The mp3 listening files have to be downloaded from the Listening Bank where you will also find the transcripts.
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Interview with an ActressTarget Language: Talking about positive/negative aspects of jobs, multiple choice listening exercise.Description: Recording of radio programme where theatre actress talks about her recent career. Vocabulary exercise which focuses on understanding the meaning with little context or clues. Note: This lesson has a bonus listening exercise at the end.
Duration: 45 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 4L1 mp3 file/info: Click here |
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The SETI InterviewTarget Language: Talking about UFO's/The Unexplained.Description: A radio program in which a scientist talks about UFO's/the search for extra-terrestrial life. Speaking before and after about this and other unusual phenomena. Note: This lesson has a bonus listening exercise at the end.
Duration: 55 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 4L2 mp3 file/info: Click here |
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The Pet CatererTarget Language: Unusual jobs, looking after animals.Description: A lesson based around an interview on a radio program about Dan Smith's unusual job. What are the benefits or downsides of doing an unusual job? Note: This lesson has a bonus listening exercise at the end.
Duration: 55 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 4L3 mp3 file/info: Click here |
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A Survival StoryTarget Language: Making decisions/prioritizing choices. Listening to radio program.Description: Listening based around radio program and story of woman's survival at sea. Pre- and post-listening speaking activities based around "what if?" questions.
Duration: 55 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 4L4 mp3 file/info: Click here |
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Online PerilsTarget Language: Using the internet, spam/viruses, etc. Listening to a radio program.Description: The listening here is an radio interview based around the "dark" side of the web: phishing, spam and viruses. Pre-listening vocabulary exercise looks at some internet terminology. Free speaking activity to finish the lesson with. Note: This lesson has 2 bonus listening exercises at the end.
Duration: 60-70 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 4L5 mp3 file/info: Click here |
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Turn Off That LightTarget Language: Talking about saving energy, listening to radio interview.Description: The core of this lesson is a 6m 45 second radio interview in which an expert on light pollution discusses the negative effects and possible solutions to city lighting becoming an environment issue. Students also discuss other ways of saving energy and their own opinions on light pollution.
Duration: 50 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 4L6 mp3 file/info: Click here |
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Read All About ItTarget Language: Listening to conversation about local newspapers, why people buy local newspapers.Description: The subject of this lesson is local newspapers. Students listen to two friends having a discussion about the merits of the local press. Students can then express their own opinions on the subject. Optional "editor" role play possible too.
Duration: 55 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 4L7 mp3 file/info: Click here |
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Anger Behind The WheelTarget Language: What causes road rage and what possible solutions there are to reduce it.Description: The listening in this lesson is a talk on the radio about road rage. There are two vocabulary exercises, looking both at single words and idioms. There is a role play at the end of the lesson. Note: This lesson has a bonus listening exercise at the end.
Duration: 60-70 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 4L8 mp3 file/info: Click here |
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Film FanaticsTarget Language: Going to the cinema, movie critics.Description: The theme of this lesson is the world of cinema and, in particular, the movie critic. Do we believe and follow their recommendations? Should we? This is a long and quite tough listening and there's also quite a lot of vocabulary work, as part of the listening exercises too.
Duration: 70 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 4L9 mp3 file/info: Click here |
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A Writer TalksTarget Language: An author talks about her latest book.Description: The lesson begins by asking students to think about the last book they read. In the listening, we hear an author talk about her writing process and her works. At the end of the lesson, students get a chance to write a short review of a book.
Duration: 95 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 4L10 mp3 file/info: Click here |
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Having Everything DoneTarget Language: The causative, doing work on a property.Description: The lesson opens by asking students to think about things they do themselves - and things they pay others to do. After some dictionary work, the listening comprehension exercises are based on a conversation between two friends, one of whom has inherited a property in poor condition.
Duration: 60 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 4L12 mp3 file/info: Click here |
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The Electric PageTarget Language: eBooks and eBook readers, technology vocabulary.Description: The listening for this lesson is a conversation between two friends (one more cynical than the other!) about ebooks and the devices that you can read them on. At the end of the lesson, you will set up a traditional debate where the class is divided into two halves and each will argue for or against a chosen topic.
Duration: 60 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 4L14 mp3 file/info: Click here |
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A Gripping ReadTarget Language: Reading & book reviews. Vocabulary of reviews.Description: The theme of today's lesson isn't so much reading, as book reviews, what importance your students give to book reviews, and the language of book reviews. The main listening content of the lesson are four reviews of novels and the final writing assignment is for your students to pen their own book reviews. Note: This lesson has a bonus listening exercise at the end.
Duration: 60 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 4L15 mp3 file/info: Click here |
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