Pre-Intermediate
Listening
These are the worksheets. The mp3 listening files have to be downloaded from the Listening Bank where you will also find the transcripts.
Title: The Charity Show
Target Language: Can/Can't for ability.
Description: Lesson that focuses on abilities and talents. Students listen to two friends talking about a talent contest and the lesson ends with a communicative game using can and can't.
Duration: 55 minutes.
Lesson Plan: 2L1
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Title: Diana's New Job
Target Language: Quantifiers, job vocabulary.
Description: Some discussion about work and jobs is followed by a vocabulary exercise where students see work-related vocabulary in context. A listening based on someone's experience in a new job, which also includes several quantifiers. Grammar focus on quantifiers and lesson ends with countable/uncountable noun game.
Duration: 60 minutes.
Lesson Plan: 2L2
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Title: The Job Interview
Target Language: Present perfect, for/since, work experience.
Description: Recording of a job interview in a lesson which focuses on present perfect to talk about life/work experience. Some work on for/since.
Duration: 40 minutes.
Lesson Plan: 2L3
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Title: Vacation Stress
Target Language: Word stress; tense review.
Description: Leroy is on a European vacation and sends his family a "speaking postcard". Some work on word stress and a review of past simple, present continuous, going to future.
Duration: 60 minutes.
Lesson Plan: 2L4
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Title: The Inspector Calls
Target Language: Past Simple, Police/Crime Investigation vocabulary.
Description: Listening lesson based on theme of alibis and police investigations. Speaking activities using past simple to talk about sequence of past events.
Duration: 50 minutes.
Lesson Plan: 2L5
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Title: Best Friends
Target Language: Talking about friends and friendship.
Description: Talking about friends and what makes good friends. Some vocabulary and dictionary work and the lesson ends with a "moral dilemmas" speaking activity. The listening consists of two friends completing a friendship survey.
Duration: 50 minutes.
Lesson Plan: 2L6
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Title: A Matter Of Taste
Target Language: Listening to conversation about modern art.
Description: The subject of modern art never fails to provoke some nice lively discussion. The main listening comprehension exercises, based on a conversation between friends about a modern art exhibition, involve picture identification and multiple choice.
Duration: 55 minutes.
Lesson Plan: 2L8
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Title: Old Friends
Target Language: Talking about old photos and friends.
Description: Students are first invited to talk about (and possibly show) old family photographs and talk about how much they use a camera and how they use photos. The listening is a conversation between two friends and discuss all the people shown in a particular photo. Lesson finishes with a memory game.
Duration: 50 minutes.
Lesson Plan: 2L10
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Title: Kitchen Capers
Target Language: Giving instructions in the kitchen.
Description: Two friends make chicken pie. Cooking vocabulary and a focus on the imperative verb form used in the conversation between the two friends.
Duration: 60 minutes.
Lesson Plan: 2L11
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Title: Evening Classes
Target Language: Deciding which evening course to do.
Description: The subject of this lesson is evening classes. There is an initial speaking activity during which students talk about what type of course they'd like to do. The listening has two friends looking at a brochure and deciding which course to do. The lesson finishes with a speaking activity which requires students to use functional English such as agreeing and suggesting in order to come to a decision about which class to do together.
Duration: 60 minutes.
Lesson Plan: 2L12
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Title: Choices Choices
Target Language: Deciding which computer to buy.
Description: Two friends speak about the best computer to buy. The lesson begins with a speaking activity about buying gadgets and the difficulties that exist when choosing to buy such items. A pre-listening vocabulary exercise helps students with some computer jargon. After two listening comprehension exercises, a final speaking activity ends the lesson.
Duration: 50 minutes.
Lesson Plan: 2L13
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