Listening Lesson Plan

Resources:

http://www.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,29654496001_1910837,00.html

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1910977,00.html

http://www.listen-and-write.com/youtube/show/1278

Class Level:

High Intermediate community college ESL

Time Frame:

50 minutes

Objectives:

The students will be able to:

listen for specific information in an interview

take dictation from an audio/video prompt

check their own work for accuracy

Procedure:

1. Warm up on the Harry Potter movies/Daniel Radcliffe/interviews

2. Hand out copies of interview questions:

#How different are you from Harry?
#What do you think has been Harry's greatest misstep or failure in judgment?
#The Harry Potter films have given you a chance to work with an extraordinary

number of British acting royalty. Which ones have had the greatest effect on you?

#What is your favorite story from back stage?
#If you could use any of the magical spells from Harry Potter, which would you choose?
#What do you think about the way J.K. Rowling formed the plots of the books?

3. Play the video fro 10 Questions: (only 6 on this clip)
http://www.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,29654496001_1910837,00.html
4. Students check their answers:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1910977,00.html

5. Students complete dictation exercise at Listen and Write:
http://www.listen-and-write.com/youtube/show/1278

Week 2 Supertools

Excellent tools from Week 2:

Ohlife: for journal writing; daily/weekly prompts to make entry; use for writing class, Intro to Teaching ESL

storybird.com: for collaborative and not stories; image prompts; can be made into virtual books;library of many excellent books and ideas; can accommodate more text than most

creativewritingprompts.com: choose a number for a writing prompt

Getting Started

The first week is over, and I've sampled several new and promising websites and applications. Some are 'adaptive reuse' of previously encountered technology; others are new.

Heading up the adaptive reuse column is Symbaloo, which I've used in the past to save links. I had not thought about using the list of links as a kind of biography - a window into my preferences.

In the 'new' category is Wordpress. I'm clearly a devotee of Blogger, but in the process of exploring the suggestions on the wiki, I realized that Wordpress might serve my needs better - will need to follow up on that one.