Elementary: Listening Lesson Plans

These are the worksheets. The mp3 listening files have to be downloaded from the Listening Bank where you will also find the transcripts.

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The World Of Movies

Target Language: Talking about movies, present simple.
Description: Before listening to a cinema's recorded message giving information about movies and times of screening, students get to practice speaking about movies and movie genres. Information gap exercise also included. Note: This lesson has a bonus listening exercise at the end.
Duration: 65 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 1L1
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A Musician's Day

Target Language: Adverbs of frequency.
Description: Practice of using adverbs of frequency and a recording of a fictional rock star talking about her daily routine. Note: This lesson has a bonus listening exercise at the end.
Duration: 40 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 1L2
mp3 file/info: Click here
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The New Class

Target Language: Present Simple, Getting to know people.
Description: Can be used as an ice breaker with a new class or a class that hasn't had the chance to get to know each other very well. Focus on using present simple questions to find out about other students in the class. After a listening, lesson ends with a very active game. Note: This lesson has a bonus listening exercise at the end.
Duration: 45 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 1L3
mp3 file/info: Click here
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Making Apple Pie

Target Language: Quantifiers, cooking vocabulary.
Description: Some practice at cooking vocabulary. The students listen to two friends making apple pie and do some work on quantifiers such as many, much, a lot and a little. Note: This lesson has a bonus listening exercise at the end.
Duration: 35 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 1L4
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Bookworms

Target Language: Question formation, books and reading.
Description: This lesson gives some practice at formation of questions and gives students ample speaking practice and the opportunity to speak about their reading habits. The listening consists of a woman carrying out a survey about reading habits.
Duration: 60 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 1L5
mp3 file/info: Click here
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Leaving On A Jet Plane

Target Language: Air travel, Past Simple.
Description: The listening here is a conversation between two friends on a flight from New York to Los Angeles. After an initial discussion about the merits of air travel, the listening exercises are an event re-ordering and a true/false exercise. Some work on past simple forms to finish with.
Duration: 50 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 1L6
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Coming To Town

Target Language: Talking about future plans using "going to" and present continuous.
Description: Two friends have a conversation about a family member coming to visit. Students then look at the grammar of future plans and the lesson finishes with a speaking activity.
Duration: 60 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 1L7
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At The Department Store

Target Language: Talking about future plans using "going to" and present continuous.
Description: After an initial vocabulary exercise on which stores we visit for different products, the main listening section of this lesson consists of a customer in a department store speaking to a store assistant and asking where different items can be found. Memory game to finish with. Note: This lesson has a bonus listening exercise at the end.
Duration: 45 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 1L9
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Tags: Shopping
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Knowing Her Majesty

Target Language: Present Simple questions in the third person.
Description: The lesson opens by asking students what they know about famous people. The first listening activity is a useful note-completion exercise and the second listening activity is more grammar-focused, on the third person interrogative form of the Present Simple tense. This grammar focus continues in the lesson as students look at the third person interrogative structure, then do a jigsaw speaking activity.
Duration: 70 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 1L11
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Perchance To Dream

Target Language: A sleep survey, present simple questions, adverbs of frequency.
Description: Students brainstorm good and bad ideas for a good night's sleep before listening to someone interviewing a woman in the street about her sleep habits. There is some grammar focus at the end on the present simple questions forms that are used in the listening.
Duration: 70 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 1L12
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A Friend Visits

Target Language: Giving directions, following instructions, the imperative.
Description: At the beginning of the lesson, students talk about what there is to see in their own towns. There is some practice at following directions on a map, before students listen to a "spoken" pen-pal letter where a friend talks about her hometown and says how to find her house. The lesson finishes with some freer spoken practice at giving directions. Note: This lesson has a bonus listening exercise at the end.
Duration: 65 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 1L15
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