Class 10 Teacher's guide English class 10 Lesson Five Listening

 

Class 10
Teacher's guide English class 10 Lesson Five
Listening

Content from the textbook

  Listening activities (Engage yourself, Study time and Follow-up activity) (pp. 6-7)

Materials required

 Audio file/CD/Laptop/Audio player 

Lesson activities

Engage yourself

 Set the scene for the listening task. Engage the students in the picture-guessing activity.

Ask them to guess answers to the questions given:

a. Who are these people? (They are a daughter and her parents.)

b. What are they talking about? (They are talking about a tour.)

 Ask the students to predict what they will be going to listen. This activity will help them

predict the content of listening.

 To activate their current knowledge about the content of the listening, ask the students

such questions as: What do you do on holidays? Do you stay home or go out? Do you like

holidays?

 If necessary, introduce the meaning of some new words which will appear in the audio

(e.g. wander, movie, curious, uniform, etc.).

Note: For sound files with much lexical density, i.e. having many unfamiliar words, key

vocabulary should be taught explicitly.  

Study time (1)

 Ask the students to work in pairs, and go through the task. Make sure that they are

clear about the task.

 Play the sound file (or read the audio script aloud), and ask the students to answer the

questions using only the key words/phrases. You can play the audio more than once if

required.

 When all the students complete the task, arrange for a public sharing and feedback. 

Suggested answers

a. This afternoon

b. Wash the school uniform

c. Four

d. Parents

e. Mother. 

Study time (2)

 Ask the students to work for the second task (Listen and fill in the blanks). Make sure that

they are clear about the task and the purpose. 

 Play the audio file (or read the audio script aloud). You can play the audio more than once

if required. Encourage the students to get answers themselves listening to the audio.

 When all the students complete the task, arrange for a public sharing and feedback

session. 

Suggested answers

a. plans

b. public

c. Tejendra

d. call

e. see/ meet 

 

Follow-up activity

 Ask the students to continue working in the pairs. This time, they are going to recall the

expressions in the audio file that are used for giving and withholding permission. Ask

them to divide the task between the peers: one will be completing one half of the table

(Giving permission) and the other will be doing the second half (Withholding

permission).

 Play the audio file (or read the audio script aloud), and ask the pairs to work accordingly.

Once they complete the task, arrange for a public sharing and feedback session again.  

Suggested answers

Giving permission       Withholding permission

You can.                       Don‟t let he go.

My pleasure.              Don‟t you go to school?

                                     Don‟t wander around.

 Play the audio once again (or read the audio script aloud), and ask the pairs to edit/correct

any responses they might need to improve. Conduct a general discussion about what topic

they listened to, who were speaking, etc.

Extended activity

Ask students to engage in the „reaction to the text‟ activity. Conduct a discussion about

whether they agree or disagree or even believe what they have listened to. Elicit their

reactions using the following probes: 

Reaction to the text ideas

a. Bandana is a modern girl.

b. Her parents are considerate about the daughter.

c. The friends could have done something more useful than watching a movie on holiday.

d. Bandana and friends had the habit of wandering around the street.

e. Why does Bandana say, “You are great, mom”? What could she have said if her

mother had rejected her plan?  

Reflection

What I did? What went

successfully?

What problems I

faced?

What could be done

for betterment?