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SCHEME OF WORK: TEXTBOOK BASED LESSON (UNIT 4)
LESSON 42 (Listening 7) MAIN SKILL(S) FOCUS: Listening THEME: People and Culture

WEEK: __ TOPIC: Being a Teen CROSS CURRICULAR ELEMENT(S): Information LANGUAGE/GRAMMAR FOCUS: expressing opinions;
words and phrases connected with schools and
and Communications Technology
education

CONTENT LEARNING LEARNING OUTLINE MATERIALS / DIFFERENTIATION
STANDARD STANDARD REFERENCES STRATEGIES
Pre-lesson Full Blast Plus 4 Fast finishers can move on to
Main Skill Main Skill Pupils work with talk partner(s) to answer the question: What makes Student’s Book, p55 the Vocabulary activities in
a good school? Either leave open for pupils to come up with own Teacher’s Book, p55 the Student’s Book.
Listening 1.1 Listening 1.1.3 ideas or put on the board: good leadership from Head teacher; well- Full Blast Plus 4 Audio Alternatively, some of these
Understand Recognise qualified teachers; excellent IT facilities (computers); small class CD activities can be given for
meaning in a independently sizes; good sports facilities; good Arts facilities (musical instruments, homework.
variety of familiar attitudes or opinions paints); a lot of extracurricular activities on offer; plenty of school To support less confident
contexts in extended texts on trips every year. Pupils can chose which options make a good pupils, pause the listening
a wide range of school or put all the options in order of importance. track at selected intervals to
familiar topics allow thinking time.
Lesson delivery Alternatively, read and pause
This lesson focuses on Activities A and B of the Listening at specific intervals from the
Complementary Complementary activity. See the Teacher’s Book for detailed guidance. audio script in the Teacher’s
Skill Skill Activities A and B focus on developing the main skill for this lesson. Book if it helps less proficient
In order to meet the complementary skill, add a stage after pupils to listen to your voice
Speaking 2.1 Speaking 2.1.4 completing Activity B. Divide pupils into groups of 6 (smaller if rather than that of a native
Communicate Explain and justify necessary) Give each member of the group a letter A-F. On the speaker. Play the track from
information, ideas, own point of view board put: A school meals, B sports facilities, C computers, D school the CD when pupils feel more
opinions and library, E playground facilities, F after school language club (change confident.
feelings intelligibly these options to better suit own school needs). Explain that the For additional differentiation
on familiar topics school has been given some money and they must decide what to strategies, please refer to the
spend the money on. Each pupil must put forward the option given provided list of differentiation
to them and explain why their option is best and justify their opinion. strategies and select
Give pupils time to think of ideas before starting the debate. Pupils appropriate strategy
take it in turns to put forward their opinion and justifications before /strategies based on the
holding a group discussion and coming up with a solution. needs of the pupils.

Post-lesson
Have one member from each group state their decision and
justification for their decision. Open up to class discussion.

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