# Teaching EFL Listening via FUN WITH ENGLISH Books/7B/Lesson 12

Grade 7 牛津初中英语·同步听力(七下) FUN WITH ENGLISH 7B Chapter 11 Anqing Foreign Language School Lesson 12 Version 0.2

## Lesson Objectives

* Class will begin on time with everyone in their seats.
* The Zoo chat will go for a while giving many students a chance to speak.
* The textbook will go quickly and the students will do what they are supposed to be doing.
* The Zoo activity will get the majority of the students speaking English and working together effectively.

## Lesson Plan

* Before Class
** Get greetings powerpoint ready on the computer.
** 3 Minutes before class begins, Mr. Brown's students are out of the room and my students get in their seats.
* Greeting: What's up?
** Introduce/Reintroduce "What's the Craic?"
* Riddle
** Why is 6 afraid of 7?
* Zoo Chat
** What is a zoo?
** Do you like zoos?
** Why do people have zoos?
** Do animals like zoos?
** Would you like to live in a zoo?
* Textbook: Page 42 Let's get ready A&B
** Play music
** While the students are doing their work, bring them up 1 by 1 and discuss their grades.
* Textbook: Page 44 Let's listen 2
* Activity: Design your own zoo that animals will like.
** Make groups of 4 or 5 students.
** Have them answer three questions:
*** What are 5 things animals like?
*** How can you make a zoo animals like?
*** What is the name of your zoo?
* Listening: Pop Music
* Extra Time
** Competetive Hangman

## Lesson Review
### 24 May 2010 AM Period 1 Grade 7 Class 1

* Arrived 2 minutes before class, but I got everyone in their seats to start class.
* What's up
** Did not go over "What's the craic?"
* Riddle
** Only about 80% of the class understood.
* Let's get ready + music + grades
** Students seemed to be interested in their grades but there was not a discernable impact on their behavior afterwards. Did not take too, too long to finish.
* Let's listen 2
** Many of them were talking, but those who wanted to hear, heard and participated
* Build a zoo
** They did not understand some of the vocabulary, but overall they seemed to be working.
* Pop music
** Tried "Numb" by Linkin Park first, which did not get much of a response then Beat It which was the same.

#### Next Lesson

* Another groups based activity with the same groups?
* Stay patient.

### 24 May 2010 AM Period 3 Grade 7 Class 5

* Class was a little noisy at the beginning, but on the whole a huge improvement from usual.
* I arrived about 2 minutes before the bell and could not get them ready to go by the time the bell began.
* Greeting
** Quite poor, almost none of them know "Yo! What's up?"
* Riddle
** Got a lot of them thinking.
* Textbook let's get ready
* Let's listen 2
* Build a Zoo
** A lot of them did not understand the instructions for the game in English, so in the break a Chinese colleague wrote the pinyin for me. It helped. A couple of boys were running around the room, but for a lot of them were working.
* Pop music
** Listening to "Beat It!" got almost the whole class paying attention, which quite surprised me.

#### Next Lesson

* A request was made for more Lady GaGa songs.

### 24 May 2010 AM Period 4 Grade 7 Class 6

* Did not go the grades with all the students in class, but I did chat with a few.
* Followed the same basic lesson plan as the two classes above.
* The majority of the class worked quite well in the zoo activity. A couple of the boys who did not, I had sit by themselves, which went alright.

### 24 May 2010 PM Period 2 Grade 7 Class 4

* Teacher stayed which helped me get everyone into seats and rows.
* Took the picture which they were not especially excited about.
* Zoo activity went fine aside from a few students who were running wild in the halls.
* Did not do the grades with this class.

#### Next Lesson

* Told one girl I'd bring in American comics for them.

## 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.