Running Head: LISTENING AND SPEAKING LESSON PLAN

Listening and Speaking Lesson Plan

Mengzi Cai

Colorado State University

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E528
Mengzi Cai

Listening & Speaking Lesson Plan

Title: Hobbies in different countries

Brief Description of Classroom Setting: This lesson plan is aimed at L2 English students in a
listening and speaking classroom. The class will take place in Room 7 which is a big classroom
in Eddy Hall. The students have diverse linguistic backgrounds including: Chinese, Italian,
Spanish, and Arabic. In general, the students are from Novice-high to Intermediate-mid level.
The students come to these class in order to improve their English and there are 2 teenagers and
about 10 adults in class. This lesson is the second of three lessons of which the topic is hobbies.
This class will talk about the different hobbies from different countries. The lesson targets
listening and speaking skills.

Pre-Lesson inventory

Goal: Students will improve their conversational skills by practicing listening and speaking on
the topic of hobbies and learn to how to use this topic to start a conversation about hobbies which
are the interests or common activities in their own countries.

Objectives:

Content objectives:
• Students will be able to know different types of hobbies from different countries.
• Students will recognize the topic of hobbies as a good conversation-starter.

Language objectives:
• Students will be able to understand or comprehend the main idea of a conversation about
hobbies.
• Students will be able to ask about a hobby (e.g. wh- question) and know how to reply to
the question about a hobby (e.g. I enjoy…).
• Students will be able to practice identifying important information (e.g. the key word
about hobby in a conversation) .

Materials: Power point, Handouts, Stickers

Equipment: Projector

Special Room Arrangements: N/A

Warm up: A common activity in China (5 minutes)

Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvxOtZhdxuk
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Purpose: Playing the video which introduces the popular activity Mahjong in China helps
students to get familiar with the topic of the lesson. Beginning with the interesting video will
attract the students’ attention and show how the topic is relevant in the real world.

Procedure: “Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Mengzi. I am your instructor today. We will
exchange our ideas and communicate together in this class. In last class, we learned the hobbies
in USA. There are many types of activities in USA, like camping and biking. I am from China so
I want to introduce a popular activity in China which is a little different than many activities in
USA, such as hiking or camping. Let’s watch a short video.” I will play a 1-minute video. “This
is a popular activity in China. Lots of Chinese are crazy about it. It’s just like a card game, but
the rules of mahjong vary across different parts of China. This is also a prevalent hobby for most
Chinese. I know we are from different countries. I want to know what is the common activity in
your own country? Is it the same as activity in USA? Any volunteer wants to share with us?” I
will ask one or two students to give a short introduction in class.

Transition: “Thanks for sharing so today the topic of this class is hobbies in your country. I want
you to discuss hobbies and activities in your home country in this class.”

Activity 1: Listening to short conversations (15min)

Purpose: To allow students to practice their listening skills by giving them several conversations
(See Appendix A) and they can use the sentences in the conversations in real situations. The
student has to grab the key words and main sentence in each conversation.

Procedure: I will show the cards with different words which were introduced in last class
(Hobbies in USA) and have students to pick them up randomly and ask students to read the word
they chose. Students who have the same word will form a group of two or three. “Ok, I think you
have already found your group members. Now, we begin our activity one.” Firstly, I will
introduce 4 words which will show in the listening material (pastime, detective, traditional, chat
with) and give brief explanations of these words. Next, I will play an audio track of five short
conversations and ask students to fill in the blank (See Appendix A). When they finish, I will ask
them to check the answers in their group. Finally, I will ask a representative of a group to read
the whole conversation they complete after they check the answers in class (one group for two or
three conversations). “OK. We finish our listening task. We did a good job but I want to make
sure whether you all understand the meaning of the words you heard in the listening materials.
Can you match the words to the related picture on the slide? I will ask five persons and if you
give me a correct answer, I will give you a small gift.” I will put five words which were included
in the listening material and the picture on the slide.

Transition: “We listened to people discussing what they like to do in their free time. Talking
about hobby is a good topic in small-talk in US. So I will give you more example to ask people
about their hobbies.”

Activity 2: How to ask about other hobbies (10min)

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Purpose: To give examples for students when they want to start a conversation with others about
a hobby.

Procedure: The teacher will show the examples on Power Point and explain the examples briefly
(See appendix B). I will ask students to try their best to remember the different ways of asking
others and responding.

Transition: “We have learned the different ways of asking and answering. I’m sure we can talk to
each other and have conversations about hobbies so next activity I want you to use the question
and answer which we just learned in your conversation”

Activity 3: Chat with each other (15min)

Purpose: To enable students to use the example to start a conversation in a real situation and
practice the ways to use the example and combine their own opinion.

Procedure: Students will have a chart (See appendix C) and stickers. I will introduce the rules
first. Students walk around the classroom and find different partners to have conversations about
hobbies. Students can ask the question or answer the question. Students can use the example on
the chart and when you use that example in your conversation, your partner should put the
sticker in the related example which you use in your chart. I will model the activity for students.
Everyone can use the example once or more than once. Finally, I will explain it: “In this way,
you should pay attention to what your partners ask, or answer and it helps to practice your
listening skills. Also, the examples which have more stickers are the sentences that you are
familiar with. On the other hand, the examples which have less stickers are the sentences you
should focus on and practice.” I will give students 10 minutes to practice.

Closure (5 min):
“Ok, we have finished our class today. At last, I want to ask you about what you learn in this
class or what was the interesting thing in this class?” I will ask one or two students. “Next class
is on next Monday. Thinks for coming today.”
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Appendix

Appendix A:
1:
A: What's your ?
a. name b. time c. favorite pastime
B: . I can sleep all day without eating at all.
a. sleeping b. dancing c. singing

2:
A: I from different beaches, ?
a. collect bottles of sand b. stamps c. what do you collect
B: I collect .
a. sand b. shells c. coins

3:
A:Oscar, ?
a. do you like this class b. do you have time c. do you collect anything
B:Yes, I collect .
a. stamps and shells b. stamps and coins c. data

4:
A:Julia,I heard that you very much.
a. like running b. enjoy dancing c. enjoy reading
B: Yes ,I like reading .
a. article b. newspaper c. detective stories

5:
A: Jessica, you travel a lot, when you travel?
a. what do you think b. what do you like c. what do you usually do
B: I like to and local people.
a. go hiking b. visit traditional markets c. chat with

Listening material:

A: What's your favorite pastime?

B: Sleeping. I can sleep all day without eating at all.

A: I collect bottles of sand from different beaches, what do you collect?

B: I collect Shells.

A: Oscar, do you collect anything?

B: Yes, I collect stamps and coins.
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A: Julia, I heard that you enjoy reading very much.

B: Yes, I like reading detective stories.

A: Jessica, you travel a lot, what do you usually do when you travel?
B: I like to visit traditional markets and chat with local people.

Appendix B

Questions you can ask

What do you like doing?

What sort of hobbies do you like?
What do you get up to in your free time?
What’s your favorite pasttime?

How to reply

In my free time I...

When I have some spare time, I…
When I get the time, I…
My hobby is…

I’m interested in … (+noun/doing something.)

I’m into… (+ noun/doing something.)
I enjoy (+ noun/ doing something.)

Appendix C

Questions you can ask Stickers

1.What do you like doing?

2.What sort of hobbies do you like?

3.What do you get up to in your free time?

4.What’s your favorite past time?

How to reply
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5.In my free time I...

6.When I have some spare time, I…

7.When I get the time, I…

8.My hobby is…

9.I’m interested in … (+noun/doing something.)

10.I’m into… (+ noun/doing something.)

11.I enjoy (+ noun/ doing something.)