Lesson Context:

This is the second listening activity from Unit 5.  The general topic (humor) has been introduced in the previous lesson.  Examples of jokes were also introduced in the previous lesson.

Materials:

• Reflect Listening and Speaking 5 p.82-85
• Blooket: Reflect L&S 5: Unit 1-4 + Unit 5 Video 
• Board Race: Board Race Unit 5 video vocabulary 
• Youtube Video: Make Sure He’s Dead 
• Paraphrase Word Grab 
• Feedback on Paraphrase Word Grab 
• Transcript: Wrong Words 
• Quizlet 
• Kahoot 
• Discussion Questions on Humor 

Timing

Lesson Stages

Stage Aims

10 min

Dealing with Late Comers / Review Vocabulary 

Play the Blooket game

• This game recycles all the vocabulary cumulatively studied in the course thus far, so it’s a way to keep the vocabulary from previous lessons from being forgotten
• Because students can join the game at any point, it’s a non-disruptive way to deal with students trickling in late

10 min

Review Vocabulary from Previous Lesson 

Board Race

• In contrast to the Blooket game, this game focuses only on the vocabulary from yesterday’s lesson.  Reviewing the content of the previous lesson aids acquisition into long term memory

5 min

Lead-in 

Teacher reminds students of some of the jokes that we looked at yesterday.  In pairs, students talk about a joke that they like

• Activate interest in the topic
• Activate schemata related to jokes and joke telling

5 min

Orientation to the text 

Play the video with the volume off.  Students predict what is in the video.  Teacher helps elicit where necessary

• Prepare students for the listening text
• Confirm that students are familiar with the topic of the listening text

10 min

Listening for Gist 

Play the recording

Students complete Activity B on page 84

• Practice listening for main ideas
• Allow students to get the main idea of the text before listening for further detail

10 min

Paraphrase Sentence Grab

Play the listening again. In pairs, students grab the paraphrase 

• Listening for detail

10 min

Transcript: Wrong Words

Students correct the wrong words in the transcript, and then listen to check their answers

• Transcript exercises assist with bottom-up listening

30 min

Vocabulary:

Teacher directs students attention to the vocabulary words that are in their transcript (superior, ridiculous, inferior) and clarifies the meaning with CCQs.    The rest of the vocabulary is then clarified by the matching activity on page 76.  Following this a quizlet game.  Then the sentence activity on exercise B on page 76-77.  Then a Kahoot Game 

• Exploit the task for relevant vocabulary

30 min

Communicative Follow Up

Discussion questions related to humor

• Students practice communicating on a topic related to the listening.