Lesson Plan #9 - Listening

Narrative:students come from various different backgrounds and speak different languages. They have a variety of educational levels in their native language.

Rationale: listening to songs is one of the best ways to learn English and pick up new words as well as identifying grammar structures.

Goal: students will be able to listen to key words and target language in basic conversations and understand what their meanings are.

Objectives:

-       Students will be able to tell their classmates their favorite music and genres.

-       Students will be able to match vocabulary words to their definitions in English.

-       Students will be able to make a prediction about the song they are about to hear.

-       Students will able to complete the lyrics after listening to the song twice.

-       Students will able to answer detail questions about the song.

-       Students will be able to identify the tenses from the song.

Materials: computer with Internet access or CD player, vocabulary cards, lyrics handout, cloze handout, question handout, pictures

Procedure:

1.   Introduction (15 minutes): teacher passes the lyrics handout to students and have students read it. Teacher asks students what they think about the song. Students turn to their partner and ask each other about what their favorite music is and who is the singer. Students describe their feeling about the songs they like to listen to. Do them make them feel sad, happy, relieved, or inspiring?

2.   Presentation (25 minutes): teacher plays the song “What a Wonderful World” by Louis Armstrong and students listen to it twice. Teacher reviews key vocabulary words from song with picture cards (e.g.: world, hands shaking, blue sky with clouds, rainbow, red roses, trees, babies crying).

3.   Pre-teach vocabulary (15 minutes): teacher lists all vocabulary words from the song on the board and students have to match them with the definitions.

4.   Prediction (5 minutes): based on lyrics students have seen and the song they have listened, students are expected to know what the song is about.

5.   Activity (30 minutes): teacher collects back the lyrics handout and passes the cloze handout to students. Students are given a chance to listen to the song one more time and while listening they fill out the missing word on the handout. Then, students are given a question handout to answer the questions based on the song.

 Evaluation:

-       Teacher assesses students’ ability to describe what the song is about using adjectives

-       Teacher monitors as students discuss their favorite music with a partner.

-       Teacher evaluates students’ ability to identify the vocabulary words.

-       Teacher assesses students’ ability to predict what the song is about.

-       Teacher monitors as students fill the missing words on the lyrics handout.

-       Teacher monitors as students answer questions about the song.