Lesson Plan
Topic: Taboo conversation topics Date: Time: 45 min
No. in group: 36 Level: B1 – B2 (CEFR)
General aims Develop ability to listen to the interviews with multinational interviewees.
- Students have been practised listening for main ideas and details
Assumptions - Students get accustomed to work in pairs or in groups with discussion and argument
- Students have adequate command of vocabulary to talk about taboo topics
- Students have had the opportunities to speak in front of the whole class by sharing their ideas.
Anticipated problems
- Students might find difficult to keep track with multinational interviewees’ speed owing to their accent
and intonation.
- Students might get stuck with some specific vocabulary mentioned in the talk
- Some students might be reticent to speak or easily distracted
Time Stage Aim Pattern of Teacher Activity Learner Activity Resources
interaction
5 min 1. Warm-up: Sts-Sts - Deliver Worksheet A. Ask Sts to look at the pictures - Work in groups to do the Worksheet A
Matching on the worksheet A and work in six groups to match exercise in the worksheet A
the pictures with a list of taboo topics given in the
Sts-T-Sts box. - Give T correct answers
- Elicit Sts’ answers and confirm correct answers. - Be clear about new
- Make sure Sts understand all the words before vocabulary
moving to While-listening activity.
5 min 2. Pre-listening: Sts-Sts - Deliver Worksheet B. Ask students to look at the - Work in groups to do the Worksheet B
Activating pictures and write the number in proportion to exercise in the worksheet B
schemata about each given country.
taboo topics Sts-T-Sts - Elicit Sts’ answers and confirm correct answers - Give T correct answers
- Ask students to work in their previous groups and
guess the taboo topics in each country - Work in groups and guess
the taboos together.
25 min 3. While-listening: T-Sts - Ask students to listen to the speakers and make a - Listen to the talk and do the Video:
Listening to the list of taboo topics mentioned by each speakers. task https://www.d
interviews on - Ask students to work in their previous groups and ropbox.com/s
taboo compare what they have listened with their guess /6zpt31w2brd
conversation Sts-Sts noted in While-listening activity. - Work in groups and discuss l72q/Introduct
topics T-Sts - Deliver Worksheet C. Play the video again and ask the answers ion.mp4?dl=0
student to match statements A-F to speakers 1-5.
Sts-T - Ask students to check and share the answers with - Check the answer with the
the whole class whole class.
T-Sts - Give feedback and correct answers.
- Give sts the transcript
- Read the transcript and ask
for new words if neccesary
8 min 4. Post-listening: Sts-Sts - Deliver Worksheet D. Have Sts work in pairs and - Work in pairs and discuss Worksheet D
Discussion discuss the questions given in Worksheet D. the questions
- Call on some Sts to share their answers in front of
the whole class - Share the answers with the
Sts-T-Sts - Make neccesary comments and corrections. whole class
2 min 5. Wrapping T- Sts - Summarize the main points. - Listen to T and jot down the
- Assign Homework main points and homework.
WORKSHEET A
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WORKSHEET B
Speaker 1 Speaker
Speaker 2 3
Speaker 4 Speaker
Speaker
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WORKSHEET D