Teaching EFL Listening via FUN WITH ENGLISH Books/8B/Lesson 12

Lesson Objectives

I will talk with all the students individually about their grades and they will understand where they are and where they can go next.
The students will listen and complete the textbook activities quickly.
The majority of the class will get involved in the charities around the world activity.
The song will attract their attention.

If time, walk around and mingle with the students before the bell rings. (King)
Get the computer working and ready to go.
3 Minutes before the bell get the students who have to go to the other class out, and the students in my class in their seats.

While the students are doing this, play some music.
Call them up one by one to tell them their grades and discuss quickly what they can do next.
Talk about the song before going over the answers.

In part A you will be choosing True or False, in part B you will be writing the years.

Now you are going to make a charity.
I will make 6 teams.
- Teams need to be made before class begins.
Each team will make a charity to solve one problem.
- Problems:
  - Not enough food
  - No clean water
  - War
  - People are sick
  - People have no education
  - People have no jobs
You will think of 8 ideas to solve your problem, and write them on this paper.
- Give them a copy of the paper.
Put a song on while they are writing.
Maybe make them come to the front of the class to speak?

Game: Number of Letters? (Mr. Brown)

Make two teams.
Tell them to make a word that begins with one letter, e.g. D, and has 6 letters.
Go back and forth between the teams making the words.

Gave the students their grades. Do not know how helpful they were.
Got nothing from "What's up?" when I asked.
I was exhausted this period.
I didn't have their handout for the world charity activity, so I adapted by having them write on the back of the grade 7 activity sheets.
- One thing a whole lot of classes did in this activity was look to the book for charity ideas.

What Could I Have Done Better?

What Did I Do Well?

What Did I Learn?

What Did My Students Get From The Lesson?

Were the Lesson Objectives Achieved? Why?

I will talk with all the students individually about their grades and they will understand where they are and where they can go next.
The students will listen and complete the textbook activities quickly.
The majority of the class will get involved in the charities around the world activity.
The song will attract their attention.

How can I Improve the Lesson?

Got to class only a minute before the bell so I didn't get all the students into their seats.

Riddle
- Moderate response.
Let's get ready with grades
- Didn't chat so long this time, just told them and then moved on.
World Charity
- Having them work just with the people around them where they were sitting went better.
- Asked one of the top students after class if the activity was good/bad/so-so she said "so-so".
Numb with lyrics missing.
- Not that well received.

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).
- In this lesson it was his idea to create the different charities around the world for the students to try and help.
Marjorie King provided some feedback on my last lessons, that was built into this lesson. (King)

Version 0.3 17 Feb 2011
- Removed copyright notice and published it on Wikiversity.
Version 0.2 23 May 2010
Version 0.1 11 May 2010
- Written during my weekly meeting with Mr. Brown at Shaliwen coffee shop.