Tuesday 17 April 2012

Listening Skills - Weather

Class Level: Beginner                         Length of Lesson:  1hour

This listening exercise will use a short recording that is one-minute and thirty seconds in length of a weather report. The material has been edited for beginner level and includes several different kinds of weather for each day of the week.

Lesson type and subject: Listening
Materials: Recording, (there are many free materials on the internet, here is one example http://www.englishclub.com/speaking/weather-report.htm weather power-point presentation, overhead projector, sentence strips, aural cloze worksheet. 
Lesson objective: To learn new vocabulary and understand conversations to do with weather.
Assumptions: Students will understand how to include new vocabulary within previously understood sentence structures.
Anticipated problems and solutions:
1. Students may struggle identifying new vocabulary within the context of the recording.
2. Listen several times to the recorded material and include at least two different activities in the practice stage.
1. When giving information back to the class, students may struggle with the pronunciation of freshly learnt vocabulary.
2. Make sure to listen for mistakes and give the correct sound wherever needed except for the production stage (take notes).
Strategy 1:              Interaction Patterns T>S S>T                                 Timing 10 min.

Purpose: Present material and vocabulary using visual cues to prepare for a listening exercise.

Presentation
1. Start by introducing the topic and begin a brief discussion about what the weather is like outside. Elicit existing student knowledge by asking questions, is it hot or cold? Is it sunny outside? Is it snowing? Use mime and antonyms to aid comprehension.
2. Begin presentation depicting images of different kinds of weather. Discuss the pictures and elicit as much information from students as possible. What type of weather is this? Is it raining hard or soft? 

Strategy 2:              Interaction Patterns T>S S>T S>S                         Timing 25 min.

Purpose: Practice listening exercises so that students can recognise the details of a simple weather report.

Listening Practice and exercises
1. Start by listening to the recording. Afterwards get students to explain the main idea of the recording. Help them correctly identify that it is a weather report and lists weather for each day of the week.
2. Hand out strips of paper listing all the different types of weather that occurred on the recording. Instruct students to arrange the strips into the correct chronological order. Listen to the recording again whilst completing this activity. Feedback the answers to the class. Elicit corrections from students, help with any pronunciation errors.
3. For the third listening hand out the aural cloze worksheet. Instruct students to listen for the details and fill in the missing words. Listen to the recording again for this activity. Feedback answers to the class, again, elicit corrections from the students.

Strategy 3:              Interaction Patterns  S>S S>T                                Timing 25 min.   

Purpose: Design and present a weather report, students can autonomously demonstrate recently learnt vocabulary.

Produce and present a weather report
1. Split students into pairs,  instruct them to design their own weather report and detail the weather for each day. Encourage the use of simple adjectives to describe the weather, hot, cold, rain hard, light rain, thick fog. Hand out A4 paper.
2. In turn get the pairs to present their weather reports to the class. Encourage inactive students to ask questions about the report after it is finished. What will the weather be like on Tuesday? Is it raining on Sunday? 










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