Listen and Speak ideas?

[zenbone]

who here is in charge of teaching the "listen and speak" portion of their books? i was just told friday that is what i need to teach every other week. Having a little trouble conceptualizing a good lesson plan around these 2 pages. I am doing grade 1 and grade 3, grade one is greetings so i will go into a human bingo after. That is no problem. My grade three are unmotivated too cool for school emo kids so that won't work. Their listen and speak is "School newspaper" and the listen and speak is like "i always wanted to ....". Overall the section seems kinda broken but i will just have to make it work. any thoughts or wisdom would be appreciated

[Yu_Bumsuk]

Is that grades 1 & 3 elementary, middle, or high school?

[zenbone]

sorry. 1st and 3rd Middle.

[Yu_Bumsuk]

The 'Listen & Speak / Talk' portions are two very different things. The Listen portion is meant for a KET to do with a CD. However, sometimes I'll just make my own script and use what's in the book for answering questions. Just make sure you check with the KET that she's not also planning to do that part of the book.

The 'Speak' or 'Talk' portion typically has enough material for 5 minutes of a lesson from the textbook and 10 minutes from the Activities Book. Rather than repeating it too much, I'll try to come up with some other material based upon the chapter theme, and / or some worksheets based on the vocab and grammer the 'Speak' section uses.

[zenbone]

OH, no wonder i am so confused... i though all 4 exercises on the 2 pages were the Listen & Speak section. But now that i look again they are actually 4 different exercises. Not this makes a little more sense. I didn't get a lot of info, just kinda "you're doing listen and speak section every other week" so i was a little confused. thank you for your help. It still seems pretty broken but much more doable now.

[WorkingTitle3484]

I'm not sure how flexible your school is, but feel free to use the gramar points and develop a fun activity based on it. 

For me, I'm in charge of Warm-up, L&S 1 and 2, and Tune-In.  Generally, I cover 2 pages every week (5-10m of material) and plan around it.  My kids respond better when classes are split up book and activity.