Elementary: Listening Lesson Plans

Description: Before listening to a cinema's recorded message giving information about movies and times of screening, students get to practice speaking about movies and movie genres. Information gap exercise also included. Note: This lesson has a bonus listening exercise at the end.

Description: Practice of using adverbs of frequency and a recording of a fictional rock star talking about her daily routine. Note: This lesson has a bonus listening exercise at the end.

Description: Can be used as an ice breaker with a new class or a class that hasn't had the chance to get to know each other very well. Focus on using present simple questions to find out about other students in the class. After a listening, lesson ends with a very active game. Note: This lesson has a bonus listening exercise at the end.

Description: Some practice at cooking vocabulary. The students listen to two friends making apple pie and do some work on quantifiers such as many, much, a lot and a little. Note: This lesson has a bonus listening exercise at the end.

Description: This lesson gives some practice at formation of questions and gives students ample speaking practice and the opportunity to speak about their reading habits. The listening consists of a woman carrying out a survey about reading habits.

Description: The listening here is a conversation between two friends on a flight from New York to Los Angeles. After an initial discussion about the merits of air travel, the listening exercises are an event re-ordering and a true/false exercise. Some work on past simple forms to finish with.

Description: Two friends have a conversation about a family member coming to visit. Students then look at the grammar of future plans and the lesson finishes with a speaking activity.

Description: After an initial vocabulary exercise on which stores we visit for different products, the main listening section of this lesson consists of a customer in a department store speaking to a store assistant and asking where different items can be found. Memory game to finish with. Note: This lesson has a bonus listening exercise at the end.

Description: The lesson opens by asking students what they know about famous people. The first listening activity is a useful note-completion exercise and the second listening activity is more grammar-focused, on the third person interrogative form of the Present Simple tense. This grammar focus continues in the lesson as students look at the third person interrogative structure, then do a jigsaw speaking activity.

Description: Students brainstorm good and bad ideas for a good night's sleep before listening to someone interviewing a woman in the street about her sleep habits. There is some grammar focus at the end on the present simple questions forms that are used in the listening.

Description: At the beginning of the lesson, students talk about what there is to see in their own towns. There is some practice at following directions on a map, before students listen to a "spoken" pen-pal letter where a friend talks about her hometown and says how to find her house. The lesson finishes with some freer spoken practice at giving directions. Note: This lesson has a bonus listening exercise at the end.