Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
OBJECTIVES:
REVIEW/PREVIEW: [ 10 minutes ]
INTRODUCTION: [ 20 minutes ]
Teacher explains that this lesson lesson will take place over two class
periods.
Students think about all of the conversations they have had in the last
24 hours and make a list of all of the topics they talked about.
Students listen to first 3 minutes of This American Life Podcast: The Seven
Things You're Not Supposed to Talk About . 1:16 to 4:00
Teacher prompts comprehension questions:
a. What is the list?
b. Who first invented the list?
c. What are the seven things youre not supposed to talk about them?
d. What are the reasons for not talking about these topics?
e. Who should you not talk about them with?
f. Where is Sarahs mother from? How can you tell?
Students look back at the list of topics theyve talked about within the
last 24 hours and mark the topics that are on Sarahs moms list.
Teacher elicits student examples of breaking the code of topics not to
be discussed.
Class brainstorms additional topics that shouldnt be discussed in
public for reasons other than boredom: politics, war, disease, religion,
age, weight/physical appearance.
PRE-LISTENING: [ 15 minutes ]
Students are divided into 6 groups One for each topic that shouldnt
be discussed (except for one as it is not appropriate). Sleep, Health,
Dreams, Money, Diet, Route Talk. Students meet with their group and
are given a list of 10 or so vocabulary words to look up and learn as a
group before listening.
LISTENING: [ 15 minutes ]
CONCLUSION: [ 5 minutes ]
Students take five minutes to jot down some notes from their time with
the group that they think will be important to share as the teacher in
the next class.
teacher playing and pausing the audio with scripted questions. Students
know they are listening for the main ideas in order to have a discussion.
They have control of the audio and can play or stop when they feel they
need to. The podcast is also very engaging, funny, and uses a British
speaker. Splitting it up into 5-minute chunks makes it manageable for
students. Again, the lesson plan has a different format from the previous
two. This format is Pre Listening, Listening, and Post Listening.