# Teaching EFL Listening via FUN WITH ENGLISH Books/8B/Lesson 10

Grade 8 FUN WITH ENGLISH 8B Chapter 10: Helping the poor Anqing Foreign Language School Lesson 10 Version 0.21
In this chapter about helping the poor I hope to find a way to expose my students to the plight of those less fortunate and give them the opportunity to think for themselves about the idea. I will be team-teaching with Mr. Brown and we will spend some time at the beginning reminding our students of the grading policy, and recounting his adventure last week.

## Lesson Objectives

* The opening will draw the class's attention.
* The textbook activities will go quick and be productive.
* We will have a critical discussion about the situation of poor people and what can be done.
* The activities will be fun and get the students using English.

## Lesson Plan
#### Before Class Starts

* If time, walk around and mingle with the students before the bell rings. (King)

#### Greeting: USA What's up?

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

#### Opening: Mother's Day

* What day was it last Sunday?
* Do you like Mother's Day?
* Is Mother's Day important?
* Why do we have Mother's Day?
* What did you do on Mother's Day?
** What did you do on Mother's Day Mr. Brown?

#### Explanation: Class Grading Policy

* First go through the A to F scale in English and explain that 50% of their grade comes from tests and the other half from in class performance.
* Put the Chinese explanation up on the screen and have the students read it out loud so they all understand.

#### Conversation: Poor People

* Why are some people poor?
* Should you help poor people?
* Do poor people want your help?
* What can we do to help poor people?
* Who are poor people?
* Do you know any poor people?
* Are poor people bad?
* Why are there poor people in the world?
* Do poor people make a difference in your life?
* Are there poor people in Anqing?

#### Activity: Poor People Interview

CN Interview = taifan
* Write interview on the board.
* Ask if they know that word?
* Write the questions on the board
** Do you like poor people?
** Do you want to help poor people?
** Why?
* Bring up a student volunteer and interview one another in front of the class.
* Now please interview the people sitting next to you, in English!
* Give them a minute or three, walk around and help troubled groups.
* Afterwards ask for volunteers to come to the front of class and do the interview.

### Extra Time
#### Debate: Poor People (Mr. Brown)

* Break the students up by gender or by row.
* Write "Why are people poor?" on the board.
* Tell one group them they have to each write one reason why and another why they are not.

#### Look: Poem by Philip

* Poem from a homeless gentleman named Philip.
* http://youngmanhattanite.com/2009/04/we-are-all-gods-creatures-in-world-all.html

## Appendix
### Acknowledgments

* I get many ideas from Stuart Brown. (Mr. Brown).
* 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.
* Marjorie King provided some feedback on my last lessons, that was built into this lesson. (King)

### Changelog

Version 0.21 13 May 2010
* Added mother's day questions.
* Added grading section
* Moved the Unicef photo essay and the debates to extra time because we have not had time for them.
* Removed Let's listen 2 B, because it has not been productive and time is better spent discucssing.
* Changed poor people conversation questions.
Version 0.2 12 May 2010
* re-worded the introduction
* changed the greeting to just USA
* made some minor formatting adjustments from italicized to sub-sub-section in the lesson plan components
* only kept let's listen 2b from the textbook because it does the best job of probing how we can help poor people
* moved the poem to extra time, because it was too difficult
Version 0.1 1 May 2010
* Written at the YY Club in Shanghai

### Copyright

This lesson plan was written by Charles Jeffrey Danoff, drawing on ideas from others. I have not decided how to license it yet, for now feel free to re-use it for any educational purposes.