Unit 4 : SCHOOL EDUCATION SYSTEM - LISTENING
I. Objectives:
1. Educational aim: Students should know about someone’s background.
2. Knowledge:
- General knowledge: Students talk about someone’s background.
- Language
- New words: Words related to someone’s education.
3. Skill: Listening for gist and for specific information
II. Method: Integrated, mainly communicative
III. Teaching aids: Board, tape, cassetteplayer, chalks, textbook and notebook
IV. Procedures:
Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
Warm-up: (4 minutes)
- Ask Ss some questions about their studies at school.
1. What school subjects are you good at?
2. Which ones do you enjoy most/least in your class?
Explain why.
Pre-listening: (9 minutes)
- Ask Ss to look at “Listen and repeat”
- Read and ask students to listen
- Let students listen again and repeat.
- Write some words on board and ask students to read
them aloud.
- Let they work in pairs
- Listen and correct mistakes
While-listening: (20 minutes)
Task 1 (10 minutes):
- Ask students to read the questions quickly.
- Guide students the requests of the task.
- Let students listen twice.
- Write on board from 1 to 6 and call some students to
come and write their answers.
- Let them listen again and correct.
Task 2 (10 minutes):
- Teacher introduces the task “Listen again and answer the
questions”.
1. When did Gavin think he listed to the teacher well?
2. How did Gavin find the exams?
3. Why couldn’t Gavin pass the exams easily?
4. Why did Gavin say he didn’t think his school days were
the best time of his life?
- Read or turn on the tape script again once or twice
- Help students give the correct answers
Post-listening: (10 minutes)
- Teacher introduces the task “Work in pairs. Talk about
the results of your current exams at school and what you
- Listen to the teacher
- Answer the questions:
- Work in pairs
- Listen and understand the
meanings of those words.
- Read the questions quickly.
- Listen to the listening script.
- Answer the questions.
Answer:
1. Jenny/ Gavin
2. Gavin
3. Jenny
4.
5. Jenny/ Gavin
6.
- Look at the task 2 and listen to
the teacher
- Read the questions and try to
understand them
- Listen to the tape script
- Give correct answers:
1. When he enjoyed the subjects
2. He found it very difficult.
3. Because they were difficult for
him to do in a short time.
4. Because he went away to
boarding school when he was quite
young and he didn’t like that. So