Listening Skill Lesson- Aycann

I picked up teaching a listening lesson from the Net and here is the video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91GL21bCjAE&feature=related

1) Gaining Attention: The teacher starts the lesson by warming up the students and mentioning about the international foods which is related to the topic of the day. Then, she tells the students that there are lists of countries and their typical foods, but these foods are mixed and the students should find their relevant countries such as Italy- spaghetti working in two teams and the group that finishes first will be winner. This activity makes the students ready for the lesson and familiar with the topic by having fun.
2) Describing the Goal: As a first step through the listening lesson, the teacher defines mainly content of the listening activity such as ‘’ there are two people talking about their typical food in their country…’’ and she tells that there are two countries, Spain and Thailand, and students should guess the foods belonging the countries the teacher wrote on the board by working two groups.
3) Stimulating Recall of Prior Knowledge: Before the students listen the dialogue, the teacher wants them to work in groups and guess the food belonging the each country and how they think to prepare that dish and so, she tries to make their previous knowledge integrate into the topic and she wants the students to come to a decision with the help of their previous knowledge.
4) Presenting Stimulus Material: The teacher sets the listening atmosphere first and tells the students that they will check if they have right guesses. Then, she explains some words that the students may not know and may be in the sentences of the listening activity such as chopstick, fry and skewer, and tries to monitor their pronunciation on these words. For the first listening, she just wants them to control their guesses and examine how to prepare those foods. After the teacher gave feedback from the first listening and checked if they understood, she makes the students listen the activity for the second time and wants them to answer some questions such as ‘’how prepare food, what it tastes like and when they eat it’’ while they are listening.
5) Proving Learner Guidance: The teacher gives clear instructions and requirements in a very clear way and monitors the students while they are on task and checks whether the students need some more explanations from her.
6) Eliciting Performance: After the listening the teacher wants to students work with their partners and discuss about their own countries’ typical foods and ask each other the questions ‘’how prepare food, what it tastes like and when they eat it’’. Then, the students argue about the issues and improve their speaking skills by this activity.
7) Providing Feedback: After students discuss about their countries’ foods, the teacher corrects the students and gives feedback to the students by describing some words and phrases about the foods such as chopping, grading and grader and wants the students to guess the words and checks their pronunciation.
8) Assessing Performance: The teacher gives reinforcement such as wonderful, thank you very much, well- done and OK to make the students feel more comfortable and relaxed.
9) Enhancing Retention and Transfer: The listening activity is chosen to make the students much more intelligent about the food culture of some countries and they become much more familiar with some words related to topic how to prepare a food such as chop, grate and grater. After the activity they become capable of explaining how to cook a food and the structures used to tell about the process of cooking that food such as questions ‘’how can be this food prepared, what does it taste, when do people eat it?’’.
I think it is a very effective lesson in terms of listening lesson and the teacher tries to order all the steps of listening activities with her small activities such as speaking activity after on- listening part. Moreover, it is an enjoyable lesson in term of interaction between the students, and also the class size is very convenient to make the lesson effective.