Running head: LISTENING AND SPEAKING LESSON PLAN 1

Listening and Speaking Lesson Plan

Xiayu Guo

Colorado State University

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Brief Description of Classroom Setting

1. L2 learners between beginner and intermediate low/mid level. The first languages are

Chinese, Arabic, Korean and Spanish.

2. All learners are adults.

3. The topic of this lesson is “food”. Specifically, teacher introduces some foods in

supermarket.

4. There are individual work, pair work and whole class work in this class.

Pre-lesson Inventory

Lesson objectives:

1. Content objectives: Enable students to identify common foods in supermarket and discuss

what kind of food do they like?

2. Language objectives:

Enable students to use “a glass of, a packet of, a bottle of, etc.” to modify uncountable

nouns.

Enable students identify countable/uncountable nouns.

Enable students to express their idea in the sentence pattern “What kind of food would you

like? I’d like ______. /I’d like to have____.”

Teaching materials: Youtube video for listening activity. (Appendix A)

Sheets of paper for speaking activity. (Appendix C)

Exercises of listening activity. (Appendix B)

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Cloze worksheet (Appendix D)

Equipment needed for class: Doc cam, laptop.

Assignments to collect from students: None

Special room arrangements: Movable desks and chairs.

Warm-up: Brainstorm (5 minutes)

Purpose: This activity can motivate class and activate the schemata. This is an activity about

vocabularies. In this activity, students are able to think about the words what they have learned

before. Meanwhile, it lays a foundation for this class.

Procedures:

1. Teacher provides a word they may familiar with. For example, the word is “cream”.

2. Students have 3 minutes to think about other words about food whose initial letters are c,

r, e, a, m. Students must give at least 2 words in each category. They can write the words

they learned last class or they knew before.

3. After 3 minutes, teacher collects students’ answers. In this step, students can shout out

the words they come up with.

Transition: Teacher follows up by eliciting learners’ response and word list on the board.

Teacher uses these foods to transition into the listening activity.

“Yes, it’s common food in our life and we cannot live without them. So how can you quantify

them?” Then, teacher introduces countable/uncountable nouns briefly.

Listening Activity 1: Multiple Choice (15 minutes)

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Purpose: This activity helps students listen to the gist. This video is a conversation in

supermarket. There are many words with food in the video. Students can understand

countable/uncountable nouns in the activity.

1. Teacher shows some slides with target or related expressions of listening. Students read

these expressions after teacher (5 min)

2. Students scan the questions very quickly.

3. Teacher plays a conversation in supermarket. (2 min)

4. In worksheet, there are 4 multiple choices. Students should finish the tasks individually at

the first time (2 min). Teacher will play the video again. During the second time, students

should check the answers. (2 min)

5. Teacher collects feedbacks and gives correct answers. In this step, students should give

reasons of answers. (3 min)

Transitions: Now teacher will play the video again. Students should finish exercises in next

activity. (1 min)

Listening Activity 2: Cloze (7 minutes)

Purpose: This activity makes students get to know the countable/uncountable nouns briefly and

they have a concept of how to modify these nouns.

Procedures:

1. Teacher plays video. During the listening, students should fill in the blanks in the script.

(2 min)

2. Teacher plays video again. In the second time, students should check their answers. (2

min)
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3. Teacher gives students right answers (1 min)

Transitions: After listening activity, students look at the listening conversations. Teacher asks

students “Do you have any questions or words you don’t know in conversations?” If they have,

teacher explains; if not, teacher skips to next activity (2min)

Speaking activity: “What kind of food would you like?” (18 minutes)

Purpose: The activity demonstrates language-focused learning with target sentence patterns and

words.

Procedures:

1. Teacher shows pictures of food in supermarket. Maybe some students don’t know the

words, so teacher will teach them how to read. (5 min)

2. Teacher writes the sentence pattern on the board “What kind of food would you like? I’d

like …/I’d like to have…” Students should read after teacher. Teacher has a short time to

explain “I’d is the abbreviation of I would”. (3 min)

3. Teacher tells students they should work with this type of question and answer with food.

4. Teacher hands out to students the worksheet. There are many foods on worksheet (the

food in step 1). Students should go around the classroom and find classmates to ask the

questions. If there someone would like this kind of food, he/she can write down the

person’s name on the corresponding box. For example, the food is spaghetti. Student A

should ask classmates, “What kind of food would like?” If Student B says “I’d like some

spaghetti.” The student A should write B’s name on “spaghetti”. (10 min)

5. If students finish early, teacher will give them opportunity to ask classmates from other

countries what they favorite food is.

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Transition and Closure:

Give students a chance to ask questions about this class.

Thank everyone for participating and sharing opinions on the topic.

HW assignment: None

Announcement: None
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Appendix

Appendix A: script (the video from

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lcIm6zvhkc&t=102s)

Woman: Hi, Sarah. Are you going to shopping?

Sarah: Yes. The supermarket has a sale going on right now.

Woman: Oh, really? How did you come to know about it?

Sarah: I saw an ad in the newspaper.

Woman: Are there any good bargains?

Sarah: Yes. There is a big discount on almost everything.

Woman: Can I join you, Sarah?

Sarah: Sure, you are welcome.

Woman: Good morning. I would like to have two dozen eggs please.

Man: Good morning. Anything else, ma’am?

Woman: Yes. Three bottles of milk and a pack of cheese slices.

Man: Will that be all?

Woman: No. I also want two cans of condensed milk.

Man: Sure. That will be twelve dollars.

Man: Is there something I can help you with?

Woman: Yes. I’m looking for spaghetti.

Man: It’s in aisle 3, right next to the store’s main entry door.
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Woman: Thank you. I’ll check there.

Man: Welcome. Do you need help with anything else?

Woman: No. Thanks. I’m still browsing.

Woman: Excuse me. I bought this packet of noodles yesterday but it’s the wrong flavor. I don’t

want it. Can you return please?

Man: Sure. You’ll need to show the receipt.

Woman: Yes. I’ve got the receipt. Here it is.

Man: Thanks. You also bought a lot of other stuff.

Woman: Yes, but I just want to return the noodles.

Man: No problem. Here is your money.

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Appendix B: Multiple Choices

1. Why does Sarah want to go to supermarket?

A. She wants to prepare her dinner tonight.

B. She doesn’t have any food left at home.

C. The supermarket has a sale now.

2. What kind of food is the woman looking for?

A. Condensed milk

B. Spaghetti

C. Cheese

3. In the second conversation, how many kinds of food does the woman buy?

A. 3

B. 4

C. 5

4. In the third conversation, why doesn’t the woman want the noodles?

A. It’s too expensive.

B. It tastes bad.

C. She doesn’t like eating noodles.

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Appendix C: Speaking Activity Worksheet

provolone guacamole turkey yogurt

barbecue sauce mayonnaise ham pizza

meatball beignet mustard salmon

spaghetti andouille sausage muffin cheddar

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Appendix D: Cloze

Woman: Hi, Sarah. Are you going to shopping?

Sarah: Yes. The supermarket has a sale going on right now.

Woman: Oh, really? How did you come to know about it?

Sarah: I saw an ad in the newspaper.

Woman: Are there any good bargains?

Sarah: Yes. There is a big discount on almost everything.

Woman: Can I join you, Sarah?

Sarah: Sure, you are welcome.

Woman: Good morning. I would like to have _____________ eggs please.

Man: Good morning. Anything else, ma’am?

Woman: Yes. ______________ milk and ___________ cheese slices.

Man: Will that be all?

Woman: No. I also want ____________ condensed milk.

Man: Sure. That will be twelve dollars.

Man: Is there something I can help you with?

Woman: Yes. I’m looking for spaghetti.

Man: It’s in aisle 3, right next to the store’s main entry door.

Woman: Thank you. I’ll check there.

Man: Welcome. Do you need help with anything else?

Woman: No. Thanks. I’m still browsing.

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Woman: Excuse me. I bought this ___________ noodles yesterday but it’s the wrong flavor. I

don’t want it. Can you return please?

Man: Sure. You’ll need to show the receipt.

Woman: Yes. I’ve got the receipt. Here it is.

Man: Thanks. You also bought a lot of other stuff.

Woman: Yes, but I just want to return the noodles.

Man: No problem. Here is your money.