Objectives for today:
Listening comprehension - extracting the main information, recognition
Speaking - interviewing and describing an event
Listening comprehension - listening for main information, inferring attitudes
We went straight to p. 74 and they began the initial discussion with a partner a memorable event that they had both been to. They then listened to four people speaking about a memorable event. We listened to them one at a time and discussed the questions as we went, which basically looked for the main information from the texts. They then identified which phrases came from which listening text. I put special emphasis on the way "just" was used and also the use of "absolutely" in a number of sentences.
On p. 75 the sts then began the speaking task. We worked through the useful language. They worked with a different partner this time, and interviewed each other on a memorable event from their lives. Some of them later shared their partner's experience, and there were some very interesting ones - a concert in Italy, a carnival in Veracruz, and even working with Habitat for Humanity in Tabasco. This impressed me. The sts did well interviewing and using the language presented.
We had to skip "Awkward Social Situations" as there was not time to do both that and also listen to the song. So then we listened to the song "Knockbacks in Halifax", explaining the vocabulary knockbacks, Halifax, Northern Lights, Sydney, Geelong, bluenose, bitter. One of the students explained the Northern Lights. I got the students just to listen to the song with the words, and then they discussed what was going on in the song, how the singer felt about being in a disco in Halifax, and what happened between him and the girl. They enjoyed the song.
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