lesson4

Lesson is based on Communicative Approach

The aim of the lesson is to familiarise students with the map and the street directory.
The goal of the lesson is for students to be able to use street directory and/or map of the city effectively in real life situation.

All activities in these lessons are built around listening and speaking. Listening is constructed of three parts:
I. Listening: 1. Listening to various speakers
                   a) listening to a native speaker
                   b) listening to a non-native speaker (other students)
                   c) listening to the audio tape

                   2. Type of listening:
                   a) listening for a task - transactional listening (instructions)
                   b) listening to verbally participate - interactive listening
                   c) listening with audio-visual and enviromental cues
                   d) listening without cues (audio tape)

II. Speaking: 1. a) speaking to the teacher
                       b) speaking to other students

                   2. a) responding
                       b) asking
                       c) discussing

Material used in the lesson:
1. Street directory of Brisbane, map of brisbane central busines district.
2. A tape, which has been produced by the teacher and so is the activity sheet, which referes to the tape. Tape transcription is provided.

Objectivities:
The lesson has been carefully designed with focus on listening and speaking. New language phraseology needs to be explained. Very little new language is involved, because that would make listening too difficult. Texts are mainly in simple present tense or present tense continuous with very few past tense verbs.

The lesson starts with a talk about going to the shopes and to the city. For going to an unfamiliar city, people need street directories. Discussion. Groups of students are given street directories and they should familiarize with its contentes. When they are finished, different pairs should form a group and tell each other how could they find a street. Teaher listens to individual groups. Students are latter given a copy of a city centre map and they should follow a tacher's instructions, while he/she tells where he/she is walking. After this students listen to the tape and follow the route on their maps. They are given activity sheets.