Level: Pre-intermediate (13-14 years) Tuesday 14th March

Topic: Celebrity Homes

Skills: Listening and speaking

Vocabulary: Descriptive adjectives; nouns (sofa etc.) and prepositions of place.

Resources: Listening Extra (Cambridge University Press 2004)

Youtube 'Lady Gaga mansion in Malibu 2015'
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVaWhufUrm4)

Time Activity Purpose

Pre- Introduce lesson, highlight stages and aims on wb. Focus on behavioural aims.
lesson
Once everyone has arrived board the start time of the
lesson note we will finish after 50 minutes!!
10m Instructions: Listen to me describe the home of a Engage students (with
famous person. Can you guess who it is? celebrities).

Read script. Feedback - who do you think it is? Get them focused and listening
(in silence).
Watch video - pause regularly. Elicit vocabulary used
in descriptions, board vocab and check meaning Engage schema for houses
(translate to L1 and CCQs) (adjectives and nouns).

Huge, lounge, sofa, coffee table, armchair, modern, Check knowledge of language
opposite, next to, lamp, gym, terrace, wonderful view, in forthcoming listening task.
luxurious.
Allow students to respond with
Get opinions: What do you like most about this house? an opinion to have some input.
Is there anything you don't like?
20m Prepare test, 3m Minimise cheating and
- Move students to the ends of the tables (as it's a test) maximise effort by making clear
- Instructions: you will listen to a TV presenter talking this is a test and should be
about the room in the picture - describing this room done alone.
you can see the picture of the room but some things
are wrong in the picture there are six differences Set listening up very clearly
between what you see and what you here circle the with demo so everyone knows
six differences on the picture. what to do.

- CCQs: We will listen to somebody describing what?? Provide a visual task so

A room. What room?? The one in the picture. Is the everyone is focused on
picture correct? No. How many things are wrong in the listening and doesn't need to
picture? Six. What do you draw to show which things write or speak the answers.
are wrong? A circle.
Monitor & fb to check answers
- Board example: 'The sun is shining and there is a and provide encouragement,
flower in the middle of the garden.' what is wrong in reduce any anxiety.
the picture? (the sun) what do you do? (circle the sun!)
Give sts two chances to listen
Carry out test, 8m to maximise chance to get it
Play recording once with pauses. right and to reduce any anxiety
Play again without pauses and monitor (circulate and from first listening.
check also ticking correct answers).
Reduce anxiety about
Prepare test part two, 2m answering in feedback by
-Instructions: listen one more time and number the allowing a pair check.
adjectives in the order you hear them. Eg on wb: 'this
room is very big and it has pink walls. Also it looks very Extend the listening test (fresh
clean!' - elicit number 1, 2, 3 and board. start!?) to make it more
-CCQs: Point to the words you are listening for. What reliable/valid.
do you write next to the first word you hear? The
second? Etc. Use only numbers to ensure we
are not testing writing or
 Carry out test part two, 3m speaking.
Listen to audio.
Give instant f/b and a chance to
Feedback, 5m self-correct.
Write your name and put your pen down.
F/b and check answers. F/up with to extend (but only
On the paper write your name and a rating of how get verbal f/b t prevent it going
difficult it was (1-5). on to long or becoming too
repetitive).

Get f/b from sts as to how they

found the level.
15m- Prepare Free speaking activity to relax a
20m Two groups. As and Bs. A chooses a picture on the bit after the test.
laptop open it and describe to your group who will
guess whose house it is. YOU CAN ONLY OPEN ONE Opportunity to use new
PICTURE! Then change and repeat. (Demo) vocabulary or to practice
language reviewed in this
Follow-up lesson.
Which house was your favourite and why?

Plenary Tell me one new word you learnt before you can leave. Wrap up, review and orderly
finish. Highlight what we've
done today.
Whiteboard
Tuesday 13th March
Clean
Big Topic: Celebrity Homes
Pink
-Starter activity: guess the celebrity (famous person)
-Language check: listening test, spot the difference
-Communication activity: celebrity homes

Behaviour

Celebrities: Justin Bieber -Listen!

-Speak only English!
Kim Kardashian Lady Gaga -Respect!
-Participate!
Leo Messi Taylor Swift

Lady Gaga's House Description

This house is HUGE! It has a swimming pool. In the lounge there are three big white sofas and a
coffee table in the middle. I think ten people could sit in here. There is another room with two
brown armchairs and again two big sofas. Opposite one of the sofas is a HUGE TV. It's very modern,
a bit like a cinema. There is a coffee table next to the sofa with a big lamp on it. Everything is big
and beautiful and very luxurious. There is also a gym with an exercise bike and some other
equipment. There is a terrace where you can sit outside to eat and it has a wonderful view of the
sea. Finally there is the bedroom, which has a huge bed and I think the doors open onto a beach.

Vocab from listening exercise/test

adventurous, atlas, beautiful, celebrity, clue, coffee table, corner, cultured, elegant, fan
(supporter), handbag, huge, feather, lounge, luxurious, marvellous, modern, mystery, sofa, state of
the art, studio, superb, taste, viewer, wonderful