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Design a listening lesson

Text: Listening for opinion in a podcast interview: Woman's Hour, Childhood illnesses

Pre-listening.

Learners look at the blurb of the podcast and list 5 words they will hear. Game: make a sentence with these words and you need to say if the sentence is likely true or false.

Highlight the interview format and genre: who is the audience? why are they likely to be listening?

What kind of information will the interviewee provide about childhood illnessess, given his profession?

Learners write 5 questions they expect to hear.

Review the questions.

Accomodation: first listen to the interviewee/guest and comment on what you can tell from voice: age, gender, speed, speaking to expert/non expert. Do same for host.

Listening 1 - Were your questions answered? Yes/no.

Were any questions not answered? Quick research on internet and report back.

Listening 2 - Write the answer to the questions. Then check with pairs or with teacher.

Listening 3 - Listen and identify with raised hand when something was hard to process.

Listening 3 - decode Shorten down to 30 seconds - can this be done in the session? Which app is best to do this with? Listen for familiar words-which are hard to hear. Discuss why the citation form is different to the 'real form' and how the word behaves with others around it

After listening, work on another segment with gaps for content+function word. Anticipate what those words are. Listen and complete and compare to the transcript. Reflect on answers. What was different? Highlight any problems in sound recognition/decoding. Ask students to look up the meaning of the new word and make three sample sentences, From Text, From Dictionary, From self.

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