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Teaching Listening Skills - Activities

· Activity 6

Accents : Taiwanese female,

Japanese male, Korean female

Speed : slow Activity type : information

gathering

Time : 30m

Theme : Talking about birthdays

Skills : Listening for details, listening for specific information

Level : Pre-intermediate

Grammar focus : Going to for future plans, adverbs of frequency

Vocabulary : age, birthday, CD player, celebrate, dumplings, flight attendant, guitar, meal, movie, nice,

noodles, park, picnic, present, restaurant, special, weather.

Preparation : Download Worksheet 6 and make one copy for every two students. Cut each copy as

shown by the lines.

Procedure

1. Write Birthdays on the board and tell students to call out any words they know related to the topic (for

example, present, celebrate , etc.). Review pronunciation and then add any additional words from the

Vocabulary section above that you think students may not know.

2. Explain to students that they are going to hear three people talking about birthdays. Write these names

on the board; Sun-Hyi, Kenji, Martha . Then dictate the following questions:

a. Who usually celebrates their birthday with their family?

b. Who doesn’t usually celebrate their birthday with their family?

c. Who doesn’t usually celebrate their birthday at all?

Tell students they must listen and identify the correct person in each case. When students are ready,

play the recording.

Answers : a. Martha, b. Kenji, c. Sun-Hyi

3. Put students into pairs and ask them if they can remember what each person is going to do or get for

their birthday this year. Give them a few moments to discuss and then play the recording again for

them to listen and check their ideas.

Answers : Martha is going to have a party, Kenji is going to get a guitar, Sun-Hyi is going to have a

party, but she doesn’t know what she’s going to get (although she’d like a CD player)

4. Put students into pairs and give each group a set of Word cards from Worksheet 6. Be sure to mix the

cards thoroughly before you hand them out. Tell students that they are going to listen to the three

people again. Explain that this time they should listen carefully and match the words and phrases on

each card with the person who says them. Tell students to look at the words and phrases on the cards

and give them time to match any they can from memory. When students are ready, play the

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recording.

Answers : Martha; flight attendant, China Airlines, work, restaurant, evening, dumplings, noodles,

parents, grandmother, money. Kenji: Tokyo, May 14 th , weather, really nice, park, picnic, friends. Sun-

Hyi; Pusan, mother, sometimes cooks, meal.

5. Put students into pairs and tell them to ask and answer questions about each person and what they

usually do on their birthday, using the word cards as a guide. For example:

Where is Sun-Hyi from? – He’s from Pusan, in Korea

What is Martha’s job? - She’s a flight attendant for China Airlines

Where does Kenji usually go for his birthday? – To a park with some friends

6. Extension options

Focus on grammar by playing the recording again and telling students to shout Stop! whenever they

hear going to . Have them write each phrase they hear with going to in their note books. You may also

wish to do the same for adverbs of frequency ( usually, sometimes, never , etc).

Put students into groups and tell them write what Martha usually does on her birthday as exactly as

they can using the word cards as a guide. When student are ready, play the recording again and have

them listen and check their work.

Post-listening tasks

1. Put students into groups and tell them to talk about what they usually do on their birthday. Perhaps

start them off by talking about what you usually do for your birthday.

2. Now tell students to talk about what they are going to do for their birthday this year, and what

presents they hope to get. Their partner should listen carefully and make notes. When they finish, tell

students to swap partners. Explain they should use their notes to talk about their previous partner’s

plans for their next birthday.

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Recording script

Activity 6

Martha:

Hello. My name is Martha and I’m from Taiwan. I’m a flight attendant with China

Airlines, so I sometimes work on my birthday. But I usually celebrate my birthday with

my family. We go to a restaurant in the evening and eat dumplings and noodles. My

parents and my grandmother always give me money. This year I’m going to have a party. I

hope all my friends can come.

Kenji:

Hi. I’m Kenji and I live in Tokyo. My birthday is on May 14 th . The weather is usually

really nice, so I often go to the park and have a picnic with my friends. Sometimes we go

to a movie in the evening. I don’t usually celebrate my birthday with my family, but they

buy me presents. This year I’m going to be eighteen, and my mother and father are going

to buy me a guitar.

Sun-Hyi:

My name is Sun-Hyi and I’m from Pusan in Korea. It’s my twentieth birthday next week.

Twenty is a very special age in Korea so my friends are going to have a party for me. My

brother and sister are going to come, too. I don’t usually have a party. In fact, I usually

don’t celebrate my birthday at all. But my mother sometimes cooks a special meal for my

family. I’d like a CD player for my birthday, but I don’t really know what I’m going to get.

[ Source: Get Real! 2, Lesson 1A Listen In.]

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