Intermediate: 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.
|
You've Changed!Target Language: Using present perfect to describe changes.Description: Students talk about and describe people they know well and, after listening to a conversation between two friends who chat about how their lives have changed, talk about how their family and friends have changed. Note: This lesson has a bonus listening exercise at the end.
Duration: 55 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 3L1 mp3 file/info: Click here |
|
Sports RoundupTarget Language: Sports vocabulary/expressions.Description: Some sports vocabulary taught before students listen to a sports roundup programme on the radio. Includes exercise dealing with verbs/expressions often found in English when talking about sports.
Duration: 45 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 3L2 mp3 file/info: Click here |
|
Haybridge HallTarget Language: Financial/economic vocabulary, country houses and tourism guides.Description: The core of the lesson is a recording of an automated "tourist guide" giving information about a country house. Some vocabulary work on financial and economic words. Board game to finish with. Note: This lesson has a bonus listening exercise at the end.
Duration: 55 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 3L3 mp3 file/info: Click here |
|
Online TroubleTarget Language: Online shopping, vocabulary.Description: Students listen to a telephone conversation between a website customer and the online support staff. They also learn some useful vocabulary connected with shopping online and using the internet. Note: This lesson has a bonus listening exercise at the end.
Duration: 55 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 3L4 mp3 file/info: Click here |
|
The Parent-Teacher MeetingTarget Language: Question Tags, some educational vocabulary.Description: Students practise using question tags, then listen to a conversation in a school between a teacher and the mother of one of the students. Note: This lesson has a bonus listening exercise at the end.
Duration: 40 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 3L5 mp3 file/info: Click here |
|
The Answering Machine ComplaintTarget Language: Use of dictionary, formal and informal letters, writing a letter of complaint.Description: Some intial dictionary work is followed by a recording of an answering machine message from a complaining customer. Students do some follow-up work on letters of complaint. Note: This lesson has a bonus listening exercise at the end.
Duration: 60 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 3L6 mp3 file/info: Click here |
|
Love Is In The AirTarget Language: Questions without the auxiliary 'do'.Description: This lesson tackles the tricky problem of subject/object questions. A warmer on famous couples leads onto work on questions without the auxiliary "do" and a listening about how a couple met. Note: This lesson has a bonus listening exercise at the end.
Duration: 70 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 3L7 mp3 file/info: Click here |
|
Here Is The NewsTarget Language: Present Perfect to introduce news.Description: A news bulletin listening which focuses on using the present perfect tense to talk about recent events and a couple of exercises to consolidate. Note: This lesson has a bonus listening exercise at the end.
Duration: 80 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 3L8 mp3 file/info: Click here |
|
The Room MatesTarget Language: Should/shouldn't, Living together and "house rules".Description: Students talk about problems that arise when living with other people. The listening is a couple of friends discussing some problems they are having - with the apartment owner laying down a few do's and dont's! Some grammatical focus on using should/shouldn't to give polite orders.
Duration: 75 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 3L9 mp3 file/info: Click here |
|
Democracy In ActionTarget Language: Politics vocabulary.Description: Student talk about politics in general and in their country before listening to a dialogue between a politician and a would-be voter. Some useful vocabulary concerning politics.
Duration: 45 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 3L10 mp3 file/info: Click here |
|
EavesdroppingTarget Language: Listening for gist, listening for clue words.Description: This lesson focuses on the very important issue of improving your students' listening for gist and getting students to thinkk about where and when they find listening difficult in English. The listening involves students listening to two people in different situations where the subject matter is not obvious. Note: This lesson has a bonus listening exercise at the end.
Duration: 30 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 3L11 mp3 file/info: Click here |
|
All About VanuatuTarget Language: Giving & understanding statistical data. History of a country, statistics, fact, etc.Description: Some work on the phrases used when giving statistics & dates is followed by a listening in which someone talks about the island nation of Vanuatu. This is a good listening lesson for doing work with students on listening for specific information.
Duration: 60 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 3L12 mp3 file/info: Click here |
|
Global ChangeTarget Language: Functional language, talking about the environment, climate change.Description: Students are asked about some well-known controversial topics at the outset, before listening to a heated discussion between two friends about climate change and how real it is. The lesson focuses on some vocabulary related to environmental topics and the functional language of expressing your opinion and getting your point across.
Duration: 60 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 3L13mp3 file/info: Click here |
|
The Home FortTarget Language: Home security vocabulary, phrasal verbs and modal verbs.Description: The theme of this lesson is home security and how we can be safer in our homes. After a brainstorm warmer, the pre-listening focuses on phrasal verbs which the students will hear. There is also some work done with modal verbs that are used in the listening. The lesson finishes by getting students to use modal verbs to give advice about home security.
Duration: 80 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 3L14 mp3 file/info: Click here |
|
Far From The OfficeTarget Language: Talking about work routine, unusual jobs.Description: The lesson opens with a warmer based on very unusual jobs. Students get a chance to talk about their own work situations before the main listening part of the lesson: three people talk about their unusual jobs. The lesson finishes with a general speaking activity inspired by the listenings.
Duration: 45 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 3L19 mp3 file/info: Click here |
Secure registration from $29. Join today.
