Lesson plan - Unit 12: The asian games listening skill

LESSON PLAN
UNIT 12: THE ASIAN GAMES
Listening Skill
1. Objectives:
- Skill: After the lesson, Ss will be able to develop such listening skills as listening for specific information and detailed information.
- Language: Ss will be able to build a wider range of vocabularies related to the topic and can talk about athlete they know or like.
2. Assumed knowledge: 
Students have already known some basic vocabulary items and have had some background knowledge of the Asian Games. 
3. Teaching aids: 
Textbook, blackboard, chalk, cassette tapes.
4. Procedure: 
4.1. Settlement: Check Ss’ attendance (2m)
4.2. Lecture (43 m)
Time
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
8m
Pre-listening
Asks Ss to look at the pictures on p.141 and answer the questions:
1. What are the names of these sports? (from the left to the right and top to bottom)
High jump, swimming, gymnastics and long jump.
2. Have you ever watched sports like these on television?
3. Which sport(s) do you like best? Why?
- Explains new words and asks them to read after the teacher.
1. coming live 
2.freestyle 
3. to land 
4. Gymnasium - Gymnast 
5. Bar
6. Vichai
7. Lee Bong-ju
- Listen to the instruction and the questions.
- Answer the questions.
- Read the words out loud.
20m
While-listening:
* Task 1 (10m)
- Asks Ss to look through all questions in task 1 to check whether there are any new words.
- Asks Ss to listen to the tape once to do task 1.
- Asks Ss to discuss the answers in groups and exchange the answers.
-Calls some Ss to write down the answer on the board.
- Then, replays the tape and pause at the sentence where the answer is revealed for Ss to check by themselves easily.
Key:
C 
A
B
B
D
Task 2(10m)
- Asks Ss to listen to the tape again and do task 2.
- Checks with the whole class and asks Ss what they hear in the tape to answer the questions.
- Lets Ss listen again if necessary. 
- Key:
1. 10.15 (It’s 10.15 and it’s time for “The Asian Games report”)
2. 6 (in the first 3 days they have won 6 gold medals)
3. 2 (this is the 2nd time he competed in the long jump at the Asian Games)
4. high jump
5. disappointed
-Listen to the instruction.
- Read though all questions.
- Listen to the tape and do the task individually.
- Discuss the answer in groups.
- Write down the answer on the board.
- Correct the answer.
- Listen to the instruction.
- Listen to the tape and do task 1 individually.
- Answer the questions and give evidence.
15m
Post- listening:
* Activity 1: (6m)
- Asks Ss to work in group of 4 to fill in the blanks with no more than three words.
The programme was on at.(1). It was "The Asian Games Report". The most important event was the women`s 200-metre.(2). The Japanese, Yuko got the gold medal. She made a new world record time of..(3). By the third day, the Japanese athletes had won (4) gold medals. In the Gymnasium, Lily, the Chinese gymnast won the gold medal with an average of(5) points. Lee Bong-ju, a Korean athlete, won the gold medal in the.(6) event at the distance of 8.9 m. The last event mentioned was(7). Vichai from Thailand still failed at his third attempt. He felt very(8) as he couldn`t do what he himself had wished
Key: 
(1) 10.15
 (2) freestyle
 (3) 1 minute 58 seconds
(4) 6 gold medals
(5) 9.5 points
6) long jump 
(7) high jump
8) disappointed 
- Asks some Ss to go to the board and write down the answer.
- Check the answers.
**Activity 2: (9m)
- Asks Ss to work in groups of 4 and talk about a famous athlete they know.
Suggested questions:
What is his/her name?
How old is he/she?
When did he/she begin playing the sport?
Where did he/she train?
What are his/her achievements and success?
- Goes around and helps Ss.
- Calls some pairs to tell their athlete in front of the class.
- Gives feedback.
- Listen to the instruction.
- Work in groups of 4 and do activity 1 
- Write the answers on the board.
- Check the answer.
- Listen to the instruction.
- Discuss in groups. 
- Make presentation on what they have prepared.
- Listen and give feedback.