Teaching EFL Listening via FUN WITH ENGLISH Books/8B/Lesson 12

Grade 8 FUN WITH ENGLISH 8B Chapter 14 Anqing Foreign Language School Lesson 12 Version 0.2

Lesson Objectives

 * I will talk with all the students individually about their grades and they will understand where they are and where they can go next.
 * The students will listen and complete the textbook activities quickly.
 * The majority of the class will get involved in the charities around the world activity.
 * The song will attract their attention.

Before Class Starts

 * If time, walk around and mingle with the students before the bell rings. (King)
 * Get the computer working and ready to go.
 * 3 Minutes before the bell get the students who have to go to the other class out, and the students in my class in their seats.

Greeting: USA What's up?

 * Yo! What's up? Not much, you? Not much.

Riddle

 * Why is 6 afraid of 7?

Textbook: Page 54 Let's get ready A & B

 * While the students are doing this, play some music.
 * Call them up one by one to tell them their grades and discuss quickly what they can do next.
 * Talk about the song before going over the answers.

Textbook: Page 56 Let's listen 2 A & B

 * In part A you will be choosing True or False, in part B you will be writing the years.

Activity: Charites Around the World (Mr. Brown)

 * Now you are going to make a charity.
 * I will make 6 teams.
 * Teams need to be made before class begins.
 * Each team will make a charity to solve one problem.
 * Problems:
 * Not enough food
 * No clean water
 * War
 * People are sick
 * People have no education
 * People have no jobs
 * You will think of 8 ideas to solve your problem, and write them on this paper.
 * Give them a copy of the paper.
 * Put a song on while they are writing.
 * Maybe make them come to the front of the class to speak?

Listen: "Numb"

 * Listen to the song and look at the lyrics, write down what is missing.
 * Discuss the meaning.

Extra Time
Game: Number of Letters? (Mr. Brown)
 * Make two teams.
 * Tell them to make a word that begins with one letter, e.g. D, and has 6 letters.
 * Go back and forth between the teams making the words.

24 May 2010 PM Period 1 Grade 8 Class 9

 * Gave the students their grades. Do not know how helpful they were.
 * Got nothing from "What's up?" when I asked.
 * I was exhausted this period.
 * I didn't have their handout for the world charity activity, so I adapted by having them write on the back of the grade 7 activity sheets.
 * One thing a whole lot of classes did in this activity was look to the book for charity ideas.

12 May 2010 Notes
What Could I Have Done Better?

What Did I Do Well?

What Did I Learn?

What Did My Students Get From The Lesson?

'''Were the Lesson Objectives Achieved? Why?'''
 * I will talk with all the students individually about their grades and they will understand where they are and where they can go next.
 * The students will listen and complete the textbook activities quickly.
 * The majority of the class will get involved in the charities around the world activity.
 * The song will attract their attention.

How can I Improve the Lesson?

26 May 2010 AM Period 1 Grade 8 Class 1

 * Got to class only a minute before the bell so I didn't get all the students into their seats.
 * 1) Riddle
 * 2) * Moderate response.
 * 3) Let's get ready with grades
 * 4) * Didn't chat so long this time, just told them and then moved on.
 * 5) World Charity
 * 6) * Having them work just with the people around them where they were sitting went better.
 * 7) * Asked one of the top students after class if the activity was good/bad/so-so she said "so-so".
 * 8) Numb with lyrics missing.
 * 9) * Not that well received.

Next Lesson

 * Go over their answers to the "World Charity".

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 0.3 17 Feb 2011
 * Removed copyright notice and published it on Wikiversity.
 * Version 0.2 23 May 2010
 * Version 0.1 11 May 2010
 * Written during my weekly meeting with Mr. Brown at Shaliwen coffee shop.