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

Grade 8 FUN WITH ENGLISH 8B Chapter 14 Anqing Foreign Language School Lesson 12 Version 0.2

## 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.

## Lesson Plan
### Before Class Starts

* 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.

### Greeting: USA What's up?

* Yo! What's up? Not much, you? Not much.

### Riddle

* Why is 6 afraid of 7?

### Textbook: Page 54 Let's get ready A & B

* 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.

### Textbook: Page 56 Let's listen 2 A & B

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

### Activity: Charites Around the World (Mr. Brown)

* 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?

## Listen: "Numb"

* Listen to the song and look at the lyrics, write down what is missing.
* Discuss the meaning.

### Extra Time

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.

## Lesson Review
### 24 May 2010 PM Period 1 Grade 8 Class 9

* 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.

### 12 May 2010 Notes

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?

### 26 May 2010 AM Period 1 Grade 8 Class 1

* 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.

#### Next Lesson

* Go over their answers to the "World Charity".

## Appendix
### Acknowledgments

* 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.