Theme: Profiles of Outstanding People.
Grade: 7.
Duration: One class period.
The objectives of the lesson:
- to practise listening for details
- to develop speaking skills on the basis of the text
- to activate students background knowledge in order to help them predict likely vocabulary in a given text
- to develop critical thinking
Materials
- Presentation “Bill Gates”;
- audio-visual equipment;
- handouts.
Procedures
I. Beginning of the lesson
1) Greetings
2) Introducing the aim and the contents of the lesson
II. Pre-listening activities
1) A short discussion T → CL about well-known people, reasons why they are famous.
2) Developing skills of unprepared speech. (Slide 2) T → CL
T: Look at the man. Can you guess who he is? What is he famous for? / What do you know about him?
3) Revision of the words “Appearance” using the table “Appearance” on the blackboard. P1P2 → CL
Appearance
| general appearance: | handsome, good-looking, pretty, attractive, beautiful, plain, ugly |
| age | young, middle-aged, old, in his early/mid-/late thirties |
| height | tall, short, of medium height |
| build | fat, plump, well-built, slim, thin, of medium build |
| eyes | green, blue, grey, big, small |
| hair | short, long, wavy, curly, straight, fair, light/dark brown |
| other features | beard, moustache, glasses, broad shoulders, full lips, friendly smile, dark/light complexion, bald, wrinkles, freckles |
T: Look at the picture of B.Gates (Slide3) and describe him.
4) Predicting of the content of listening (P1P2) using handouts.
T: What information about B.Gates do you think you will hear? Add the words to the chart.
III. While – listening activities
1) Listening for gist understanding. (P1P2)
T: Listen to the CD, look at your charts and mark what you’ve predicted correctly.
Comprehension check P1P2P3→CL T: What wasn’t mentioned? e.g. I heard about .... but I didn’t hear about ...
2) Listening for specific information. (P1 )
T: Listen for the second time and fill in the table.
Full name |
William Henry Gates....... |
Born |
28 October....... in Seattle, the...... |
Early Life |
very intelligent, especially good at .......... and Science parents sent him to Lakeside, a ......... school finished school in ........... |
Later Life |
went to Harvard started Microsoft in ...... with his....... Paul Allen married Melinda French in ....... wrote The Road Ahead in ........ |
Character |
ambitious, ........... generous |
Likes |
......., golf, reading about science |
Plans |
to ........almost all his wealth |
Comprehension check (Slide 4)
IV. Post-listening activities
1) Developing speaking skills using the presentation “Bill Gates”
(P1, P2, P3 ,.....) and (P1 P2 → CL)
T: Look at the presentation, and use the information in the table to talk about Bill Gates’ early life; later life; his character and plans.
V. Home work
Speaking about B.Gates and/or the other outstanding person using the table.
The lesson is planned on the material of ENTERPRISE 2 by V. Evans – J. Dooley.