Module teaching and integrating language skills lesson 1

Objective: to raise participants’ awareness of real-life listening situations and their typical сharacteristics
Time: 25 min
Materials: board, markers, recordings 1 and 2, CD player, handouts 1 and 2

►Procedure:

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  (2 min) Ask participants to brainstorm real-life situations where people listen to other people in their native language.
  
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  (3 min) Collect ideas on the board.
  

Possible answers: Radio news, Interviews, Instructions Gossip/chatting,Telephone conversation Story-telling

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  (5 min) Distribute handout 1 and ask participants to look at the pictures in the handout. Ask the following questions:
  

~ What kind of listening situations are presented in the pictures? (Who are the speakers? Where are they?)
~ What are they talking about?

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  Accept any answers.
  

Possible answers: Picture 1:two men talking in a café in Uzbekistan, probably they are friends, one might be a foreigner, another is a local young man, they might be talking about the weather, their jobs, films, books, etc. Picture 2:receptionist and guest in a hotel, the guest wants to check in.

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  (5 min) Tell participants that they are going to listen to two different listening situations and be ready to answer the questions. Allow 30 seconds for participants to look at the questions.
  
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  Play the tape.
  
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  (5 min) Collect the answers.
  

Possible answers: 1. Listening text 2 - Picture 1; Listening text 1 - Picture 2; 2. Listening text 1 - conversation in a hotel between a receptionist and a guest; listening text 2 - conversation between two men about favorite books in a café; 3. Listening text 1 is specifically designed for classroom purposes because the speakers are using complete sentences, repeating slowly, etc. Listening text 2 is an authentic text because there is a background noise, there are fillers, hesitations (erm, eh, etc.) or incomplete sentences

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  Tell students that real life listening material which is not specifically designed for use in the classroom can be called authentic listening material.
  
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  (5 min) Put participants in pairs and distribute handout 2(the tape scripts). Ask them to highlight clues that helped them to decide which of the texts is authentic and which is not.