Pre-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.
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The Charity ShowTarget Language: Can/Can't for ability.Description: Lesson that focuses on abilities and talents. Students listen to two friends talking about a talent contest and the lesson ends with a communicative game using can and can't. Note: This lesson has a bonus listening exercise at the end.
Duration: 55 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 2L1 mp3 file/info: Click here |
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Diana's New JobTarget Language: Quantifiers, job vocabulary.Description: Some discussion about work and jobs is followed by a vocabulary exercise where students see work-related vocabulary in context. A listening based on someone's experience in a new job. Grammar focus is on quantifiers and lesson ends with countable/uncountable noun game. Note: This lesson has a bonus listening exercise at the end.
Duration: 60 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 2L2 mp3 file/info: Click here |
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The Job InterviewTarget Language: Present perfect, for/since, work experience.Description: Recording of a job interview in a lesson which focuses on present perfect to talk about life/work experience. Some work on for/since. Note: This lesson has a bonus listening exercise at the end.
Duration: 40 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 2L3 mp3 file/info: Click here |
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Vacation StressTarget Language: Word stress; tense review.Description: Leroy is on a European vacation and sends his family a "speaking postcard". Some work on word stress and a review of past simple, present continuous, going to future.
Duration: 60 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 2L4 mp3 file/info: Click here |
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The Inspector CallsTarget Language: Past Simple, Police/Crime Investigation vocabulary.Description: Listening lesson based on theme of alibis and police investigations. Speaking activities using past simple to talk about sequence of past events. Note: This lesson has a bonus listening exercise at the end.
Duration: 50 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 2L5 mp3 file/info: Click here |
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Best FriendsTarget Language: Talking about friends and friendship.Description: Talking about friends and what makes good friends. Some vocabulary and dictionary work and the lesson ends with a "moral dilemmas" speaking activity. The listening consists of two friends completing a friendship survey. Note: This lesson has a bonus listening exercise at the end.
Duration: 50 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 2L6 mp3 file/info: Click here |
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Bored BettyTarget Language: Vacation/holiday activities, adverbs of frequency, inviting and suggesting.Description: A lesson that focuses on functional language of suggesting/inviting. The listening is an informal conversation between friends as they try to plan what to do together.
Duration: 55 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 2L7 mp3 file/info: Click here |
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A Matter Of TasteTarget Language: Listening to conversation about modern art.Description: The subject of modern art never fails to provoke some nice lively discussion. The main listening comprehension exercises, based on a conversation between friends about a modern art exhibition, involve picture identification and multiple choice.
Duration: 55 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 2L8 mp3 file/info: Click here |
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Checking InTarget Language: Checking into a hotel. Role Play.Description: Using functional language that your students will often find useful, this lesson looks at the hotel check-in. After the two-part listening comprehension, students will role play a check-in themselves.
Duration: 50 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 2L9 mp3 file/info: Click here |
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Old FriendsTarget Language: Talking about old photos and friends.Description: Students are first invited to talk about (and possibly show) old family photographs and talk about how much they use a camera and how they use photos. The listening is a conversation between two friends and discuss all the people shown in a particular photo. Lesson finishes with a memory game.
Duration: 50 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 2L10 mp3 file/info: Click here |
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Kitchen CapersTarget Language: Giving instructions in the kitchen.Description: Two friends make chicken pie. Cooking vocabulary and a focus on the imperative verb form used in the conversation between the two friends. Note: This lesson has a bonus listening exercise at the end.
Duration: 60 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 2L11 mp3 file/info: Click here |
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Evening ClassesTarget Language: Deciding which evening course to do.Description: The subject of this lesson is evening classes. After an initial speaking activity, the listening has two friends looking at a brochure and deciding which course to do. The lesson finishes with a speaking activity based on functional language such as agreeing and suggesting.
Duration: 60 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 2L12 mp3 file/info: Click here |
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Choices ChoicesTarget Language: Deciding which computer to buy.Description: Two friends speak about the best computer to buy. The lesson begins with a speaking activity about buying gadgets and the difficulties that exist when choosing to buy such items. After two listening comprehension exercises, a final speaking activity ends the lesson.
Duration: 50 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 2L13 mp3 file/info: Click here |
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Images From The PastTarget Language: Describing old photos, talking about family history.Description: The lesson begins by getting students talking about the elder relatives in their families. The listening involves people talking about vintage photos, with listening comprehension exercises that focus on both detail and gist. The lesson finishes with an open speaking activity. Note: This lesson has a bonus listening exercise at the end.
Duration: 60 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 2L14 mp3 file/info: Click here |
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The Outrageous OfficeTarget Language: Past Continuous, Present Participles.Description: The opening of the lesson gets students thinking about what makes a good (and a bad!) office environment to work in. The listening makes a lot of use of the Past Continuous as one friend describes to another his difficult work situation. A final freer speaking activity allows students to practice the use of the past continuous that was consolidated during the earlier parts of the lesson.
Duration: 65 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 2L15 mp3 file/info: Click here |
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Possibility Of A StudyTarget Language: Discussing positive/negative points of a property, comparative adjective forms.Description: At the start of the lesson, there is some focus on real estate advertising and property vocabulary in general. The listening is a couple being shown around a house by a real estate agent and the grammatical focus is on comparative and superlative structures. To finish with, students work on selling their own hypothetical house!
Duration: 60 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 2L17 mp3 file/info: Click here |
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