Teaching EFL Listening via FUN WITH ENGLISH Books/7B/Lesson 12

Grade 7 牛津初中英语·同步听力(七下) FUN WITH ENGLISH 7B Chapter 11 Anqing Foreign Language School Lesson 12 Version 0.2

Lesson Objectives

 * Class will begin on time with everyone in their seats.
 * The Zoo chat will go for a while giving many students a chance to speak.
 * The textbook will go quickly and the students will do what they are supposed to be doing.
 * The Zoo activity will get the majority of the students speaking English and working together effectively.

Lesson Plan

 * Before Class
 * Get greetings powerpoint ready on the computer.
 * 3 Minutes before class begins, Mr. Brown's students are out of the room and my students get in their seats.


 * 1) Greeting: What's up?
 * 2) * Introduce/Reintroduce "What's the Craic?"
 * 3) Riddle
 * 4) * Why is 6 afraid of 7?
 * 5) Zoo Chat
 * 6) * What is a zoo?
 * 7) * Do you like zoos?
 * 8) * Why do people have zoos?
 * 9) * Do animals like zoos?
 * 10) * Would you like to live in a zoo?
 * 11) Textbook: Page 42 Let's get ready A&B
 * 12) * Play music
 * 13) * While the students are doing their work, bring them up 1 by 1 and discuss their grades.
 * 14) Textbook: Page 44 Let's listen 2
 * 15) Activity: Design your own zoo that animals will like.
 * 16) * Make groups of 4 or 5 students.
 * 17) * Have them answer three questions:
 * 18) ** What are 5 things animals like?
 * 19) ** How can you make a zoo animals like?
 * 20) ** What is the name of your zoo?
 * 21) Listening: Pop Music


 * Extra Time
 * Competetive Hangman

24 May 2010 AM Period 1 Grade 7 Class 1

 * Arrived 2 minutes before class, but I got everyone in their seats to start class.
 * 1) What's up
 * 2) * Did not go over "What's the craic?"
 * 3) Riddle
 * 4) * Only about 80% of the class understood.
 * 5) Let's get ready + music + grades
 * 6) * Students seemed to be interested in their grades but there was not a discernable impact on their behavior afterwards. Did not take too, too long to finish.
 * 7) Let's listen 2
 * 8) * Many of them were talking, but those who wanted to hear, heard and participated
 * 9) Build a zoo
 * 10) * They did not understand some of the vocabulary, but overall they seemed to be working.
 * 11) Pop music
 * 12) * Tried "Numb" by Linkin Park first, which did not get much of a response then Beat It which was the same.

Next Lesson

 * Another groups based activity with the same groups?
 * Stay patient.

24 May 2010 AM Period 3 Grade 7 Class 5

 * Class was a little noisy at the beginning, but on the whole a huge improvement from usual.
 * I arrived about 2 minutes before the bell and could not get them ready to go by the time the bell began.
 * 1) Greeting
 * 2) * Quite poor, almost none of them know "Yo! What's up?"
 * 3) Riddle
 * 4) * Got a lot of them thinking.
 * 5) Textbook let's get ready
 * 6) Let's listen 2
 * 7) Build a Zoo
 * 8) * A lot of them did not understand the instructions for the game in English, so in the break a Chinese colleague wrote the pinyin for me. It helped. A couple of boys were running around the room, but for a lot of them were working.
 * 9) Pop music
 * 10) * Listening to "Beat It!" got almost the whole class paying attention, which quite surprised me.

Next Lesson

 * A request was made for more Lady GaGa songs.

24 May 2010 AM Period 4 Grade 7 Class 6

 * Did not go the grades with all the students in class, but I did chat with a few.
 * Followed the same basic lesson plan as the two classes above.
 * The majority of the class worked quite well in the zoo activity. A couple of the boys who did not, I had sit by themselves, which went alright.

24 May 2010 PM Period 2 Grade 7 Class 4

 * Teacher stayed which helped me get everyone into seats and rows.
 * Took the picture which they were not especially excited about.
 * Zoo activity went fine aside from a few students who were running wild in the halls.
 * Did not do the grades with this class.

Next Lesson

 * Told one girl I'd bring in American comics for them.

Acknowledgments

 * I would like to thank all the 7th and 8th grade classes at Anqing Foreign Language School who had this lesson for their participation and feedback. I would also like to thank the Anqing Foreign Language School for allowing me to teach there.

Changelog
Version 0.2 23 May 2010