Theme: Independence Day

Activity 3a

Objective: to practise listening for the main ideas

PP listen to the cassette and say that the children are talking about the play they are going to stage.

Tapescript

Pupil 1: OK, so now we know who is going to play each role. Let's think about the things we need. Pupil 2 :1 need some help. We need three big feathers for Liza's hat: one bright blue, another bright orange and the third bright red. They really must be very big so that people in the back row can see them.

Pupil 3: OK. I've already found a basket for flowers and a big old shawl for Liza to wear and I can make three feathers out of paper. Then I'll paint them blue, red and orange.

Pupil 2: There's one other thing. We'll need some beautiful light music for the last act and for the end when the audience claps. Pupil 1: That's going to be a roblem. Our cassette recorder is broken, so ...(voice fades) Activity 3 b Objective: to practise listening for detailed information

PP listen to the cassette a second time, copy the table into their exercise books and complete it.

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