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This lesson plan focuses on developing integrated receptive skills and vocabulary using the poem "The Listeners" by Walter de la Mare. The main aims are listening for gist and developing dictionary skills. The teacher will have students listen to the poem three times while drawing what is described, will pre-teach old English vocabulary, and have students research unfamiliar words in dictionaries. Students will work in groups to title the poem and present their drawings, with the teacher monitoring and providing help.

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Lesson Plan Ordering

This lesson plan focuses on developing integrated receptive skills and vocabulary using the poem "The Listeners" by Walter de la Mare. The main aims are listening for gist and developing dictionary skills. The teacher will have students listen to the poem three times while drawing what is described, will pre-teach old English vocabulary, and have students research unfamiliar words in dictionaries. Students will work in groups to title the poem and present their drawings, with the teacher monitoring and providing help.

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Lesson Plan

Focus: Integrated receptive skills & lexis (using ‘The Listeners’ by Walter de la Mare)
Main aim: Listening for gist / development of dictionary skills
Level: B2 (FCE candidates, near to their exam)
Timetable fit: After finishing textbook topic on ghost stories to supplement final exam practice
before FCE exam
Teacher then hands out a copy of the poem with the real
title on it to each student for comparison.
Teacher gives students a blank piece of paper and some
coloured crayons. Teacher asks students to listen to the Giving instructions
poem read aloud three times, and to draw the place and
events described.
3 Teacher writes several old English words on the board Anticipated
with modern English equivalents. language problems
(Students need to know these to understand the poem Pre-teaching
but they are not target language.) vocabulary
Students make a poster to show their findings to their Project work
classmates. Teacher visits the groups and helps where Monitoring
necessary.
Teacher now asks students to find and circle a maximum Intensive reading
of three words or short phrases they don’t know but that
they think are important.
After the last reading and drawing, teacher asks each
pair to think of a title for the poem.
Teacher reorganises the class into groups of two or three Change of
people, gives each group a learner’s dictionary, and asks interaction pattern
each group to choose one word from the board to Learner autonomy
research.
8 Teacher writes groups’ titles on the whiteboard and the Whole-class
class comments on each. feedback
Teacher tells students they are going to listen to a poem Setting the scene
by Walter de la Mare, written over 100 years ago.
Students display their work on the classroom walls, look Peer teaching
at other groups’ posters and ask questions about them.
Teacher asks students what their favourite poets and Lead-in
poems are. Generate interest
Personalisation
Teacher reads poem aloud three times with a short
pause between each reading to check students’ Gist listening
progress. Students draw pictures.
13 Students research their word in the dictionary, using Reading for specific
the context to make sure it has the information
same meaning as it does in the poem.
Between readings, students compare their pictures in Peer checking
pairs and discuss reasons for any differences between
the pictures.
Teacher asks class for the words and phrases they’ve Choral drill
circled and writes them on the board in three columns:
verbs, nouns and adjectives/adverbs. Teacher says the
words aloud and the class repeats a few times.

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