“A cottage in the village”. Listening

Grades: 10-11                         

                               Listening “A cottage in the village”

Objectives: -   To develop listening, reading, speaking, writing skills;

• Students will be able to retell the story using the vocabulary of the recoding.  

Materials:        flashcards, recording.

                                                            PROCEDURE

Warming up: Pupils sit in a circle and greet each other wishing to be confident, happy, relaxed, motivated...

            Ex: -    How are you?

• I am great.
• I wish you to be….

Introduction :

* Explain to the students that they will be listening to the story about a man.

* Ask the students what they think the story will be about by looking at the picture 

   and the words on the board.

            (countryside, man, curiosity, house, voice, friendly, guy)

* Explain to the students that while listening the record, they will listen to the

   following phrases.

* Write the phrases on the board.

*Let the students to read the explanations of the phrases to understand their

  meanings.

Take over (curiosity)                       =              to have/gain a control of smth        

(Hair) stand on end                        =               to cause smb to be very frightened

Take to somebody (straight away) =              to start to like smb       

Turn down to be                             =              to find smth/to turn up

Activity 1:   Listen to the recording and choose the correct answer A/B/C                                                                                                      

1. Heard his neighbour’s loud voice.
2. Was scared when he saw the man.
3. Didn’t like the man in the end.

Activity 2:  - Split the group into two teams. While listening the recording the second time, the students match the cards.

-Play the recording again. Check the answers in groups, then in class.

Activity 3:  - Put the phrases into the correct order as for the recordings.

Activity 4:  - Students of two teams prepare the retelling of the story close to the text using phrases as a plan, adding additional information from the recording. They write their retelling on the poster and then represent it. The task is to present  more detailed information.