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Pre-reading activities
Tasks
Time
Activity procedure
Justification
Materials
Comments
To give students the
chance
to
recall
relevant scripts and
approach the dialogue
with
a
positive
attitude.
A
picture
showing
the
outside of a
hotel
and
another
one
showing a hotel
room
Some children
might not have
similar
experiences so
the teacher will
not have to
take this for
granted.
Task
1
6 min
Students look at some
photos of a hotel which
they have to identify
and discuss with the
teacher
their
experiences from such
a place.
Task
..2
5 min
Pairwork
Making guesses gives
Teacher announces that students a purpose for
students will listen to a listening and makes
dialogue and asks them them
listen
with
to try and make guesses certain expectations
about the place, the These
facilitate
topic
and
the comprehension..
relationship of the
participants.
They
discuss their guesses in
pairs
While-reading activities
Task
3
5 min
Task
4
5 min
Children
work
individually.
First they are informed
about what is expected
from them to do. Then
they listen to the
dialogue.
The
information requested
is of a very general
nature so the children
will not have to listen
to every detail.
Jigsaw listening. In
each pair student A
listens and fills in the
table with information
about the man while
student B fills in the
other
table
with
information about the
room.
Some guesses
will be not
correct but the
teacher accepts
any reasonable
ones.
Knowing the task The tasks and
before listening gives the
tape
a purpose for listening recorder
and
limits
the
listener’s attention to
what is requested. The
questions are of a
general nature so the
students approach the
text as a whole.
Children listen for
detail so they have to
concentrate
on
specific information.
They
listen
for
different pieces of
information.
This
creates an information
gap which will help
them create a realistic
dialogue in task 5
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