Module teaching and integrating language skills lesson 1

MODULE1. TEACHING AND INTEGRATING LANGUAGE SKILLS
LESSON 4

Theme

Introducing real life aspects of listening

Warm-up (optional) Chinese Whispers
Time: 10 min
Materials: none

►Procedure:

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  (8 min) Tell participants that they are going to play a well-known game “Chinese Whispers”. Put participants in 2 groups and ask them to stand in two lines.
  
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  Ask participants standing first in the line to come up to you. Read quietly or whisper (do not show the written version) a statement (it can be a proverb or saying), for example, Make hay while the sun shines. Ask them to go back and whisper this statement to the next participant. Each participant should pass the statement he or she has heard on to the next participant in a whisper. Note that the statement should only be whispered once each time.
  
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  Ask the last participants in the lines to say the statement out loud in order to check whether they got the correct statement.
  
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  (2 min) Ask participants the following questions:
  

~ What was important in this game?
~ Was it difficult to listen to each other? Why/why not?

Possible answers: 1. Listening carefully; memorizing 2. It was difficult to listen to the statement as it was out of any context; it was whispered quickly.

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  Finish the activity by saying that the session will be focused on real life aspects of listening.
  

Activity 1 Listening situations in real life