Teaching EFL Listening via FUN WITH ENGLISH Books/7B/Lesson 12

Lesson Objectives

Class will begin on time with everyone in their seats.
The Zoo chat will go for a while giving many students a chance to speak.
The textbook will go quickly and the students will do what they are supposed to be doing.
The Zoo activity will get the majority of the students speaking English and working together effectively.

Before Class
- Get greetings powerpoint ready on the computer.
- 3 Minutes before class begins, Mr. Brown's students are out of the room and my students get in their seats.

Greeting: What's up?
- Introduce/Reintroduce "What's the Craic?"
Riddle
- Why is 6 afraid of 7?
Zoo Chat
- What is a zoo?
- Do you like zoos?
- Why do people have zoos?
- Do animals like zoos?
- Would you like to live in a zoo?
Textbook: Page 42 Let's get ready A&B
- Play music
- While the students are doing their work, bring them up 1 by 1 and discuss their grades.
Textbook: Page 44 Let's listen 2
Activity: Design your own zoo that animals will like.
- Make groups of 4 or 5 students.
- Have them answer three questions:
  - What are 5 things animals like?
  - How can you make a zoo animals like?
  - What is the name of your zoo?
Listening: Pop Music

Arrived 2 minutes before class, but I got everyone in their seats to start class.

What's up
- Did not go over "What's the craic?"
Riddle
- Only about 80% of the class understood.
Let's get ready + music + grades
- Students seemed to be interested in their grades but there was not a discernable impact on their behavior afterwards. Did not take too, too long to finish.
Let's listen 2
- Many of them were talking, but those who wanted to hear, heard and participated
Build a zoo
- They did not understand some of the vocabulary, but overall they seemed to be working.
Pop music
- Tried "Numb" by Linkin Park first, which did not get much of a response then Beat It which was the same.

Class was a little noisy at the beginning, but on the whole a huge improvement from usual.
I arrived about 2 minutes before the bell and could not get them ready to go by the time the bell began.

Greeting
- Quite poor, almost none of them know "Yo! What's up?"
Riddle
- Got a lot of them thinking.
Textbook let's get ready
Let's listen 2
Build a Zoo
- A lot of them did not understand the instructions for the game in English, so in the break a Chinese colleague wrote the pinyin for me. It helped. A couple of boys were running around the room, but for a lot of them were working.
Pop music
- Listening to "Beat It!" got almost the whole class paying attention, which quite surprised me.

Did not go the grades with all the students in class, but I did chat with a few.
Followed the same basic lesson plan as the two classes above.
The majority of the class worked quite well in the zoo activity. A couple of the boys who did not, I had sit by themselves, which went alright.

Teacher stayed which helped me get everyone into seats and rows.
Took the picture which they were not especially excited about.
Zoo activity went fine aside from a few students who were running wild in the halls.
Did not do the grades with this class.

I would like to thank all the 7th and 8th grade classes at Anqing Foreign Language School who had this lesson for their participation and feedback. I would also like to thank the Anqing Foreign Language School for allowing me to teach there.

I get many ideas from Stuart Brown. (Mr. Brown).
Marjorie King provided some feedback on my last lessons, that was built into this lesson. (King)

Version 0.2 23 May 2010