Listening Lesson Plan
by Anthippi Harou
Topic: Non-traditional fairystories: ‘Princess
Smartypants’ by Babette Cole (story read aloud in a video)
Materials and resources:
A.
video of the story
Princess Smartypants by Babette Cole
B.
Audio
of the story
C.
One/more laptop(s) and a projector
OR If there is internet access – My school
has ten laptops with wifi access and an IWB- I am going to use the digital
worksheet I created https://app.wizer.me/preview/TVQA7R (there are some modifications in the
follow-up stage). My Sts work in pairs to accompish tasks bc of the nb of
laptops.
Level:
A1-2, year 6, age: 11-12
Time:
one teaching session of 90 minutes
Stage
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Notes
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Timing
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Lead-in
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1.
Ask students to discuss in pairs:
What fairy
stories did you listen to when you were younger? What usually happens in a
traditional fairy story? (discuss the characters, the setting, typical
events, the end). Then tell each pair to report their answers to the class
and write titles of fairytales on the board)
2.
Show students two pictures of the storytale and ask them:
Does the story princess look
like a typical princess? Why or why
not?
3.
What do you think this story is going to be about?
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15 mnts
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Pre-teaching vocabulary
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Smartypants, marry, toad
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5 mnts
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Listening for gist
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Watch the story and
1.
Discuss with your partner how far your predictions
about the plot of the story were true.
2.
Take down at least five elements that make this fairy
story different from a traditional one. Compare your answers with your
partners’.
Each pair
reports to the whole class
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25 mts
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Listening for specific information
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Listen to the story
and
match the princes in the right column with the tasks in the left column (handout 1). Check answers with a partner then
as a whole class.
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10 mnts
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Listening for detail
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Listen again to
the story and:
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10 mts
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Follow-up
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Classwork
1.
Provide an alternative title for the story.
2. Why did the princess set difficult
tasks for the princes?
3. Choose any two of the following
tasks you like to do (if you have free time you can do some more):
A. Watch this section of the video
0:48-1.57 and discuss with your
partner how the princes felt when
they arrived at Smartypants’ castle, how they felt while trying to accomplish
their set tasks and when they failed?
B. Watch this segment of the video 2.09- 3.01; observe facial expression and
the tools Prince Swashbuckle used to achieve all the challenges how would he describe his personality? How did he
feel at the beginning, while doing his tasks at the end? Use as many personality adjectives as you
can (Use Grammar box of Unit 3- coursebook)
C. Prepare ten True/False sentences based on the story and exchange them with
your partners.
D.
Work
with your partner to design a new set
of challenges (at least two) the princess may set for some more princes
who might want to marry her. Create a new illustration for each of them to
accompany them in a new the book. Upload your illustrated challenges on
edmodo/padlet wall. Your teacher will compile them into a new class book.
Homework
1.
Create a comic strip
Instructions: Select two
characters of the story. Draw them and add some speech bubbles to make a dialogue between the two characters.
and try to imitate the
pronunciation of the words, intonation and the rest of the speech features.
Record your voice on your mobile
and upload it on our padlet wall/edmodo platform/extra work on our wizer
quiz.
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25 mts
(+Extra time for H/W)
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