Pre-listening Warm-up (10 min.) Suggested Lesson Plan (50 min.)

Listening Success is a five-level series designed to help students develop listening comprehension skills through focused practice with dialogs and monologs structured around common functional language patterns. By familiarizing themselves with the natural spoken forms heard in the audio tracks, students will prepare themselves for comprehending conversations and information they hear from native English speakers as well as prepare themselves for standardized tests that incorporate listening tasks.

The lesson plan presented here is suggested for classroom practice during which the instructor controls the audio presentation. Additional homework assignments are suggested at the end of the lesson plan for students to practice out of class using the audio CDs included in each book.

Suggested Lesson Plan (50 min.)

Pre-listening Warm-up (10 min.)

As a class, read through the example sentences presented in Part A. Have students focus on key functional and grammatical language targets of the unit. A complete list of language targets covered in each book of this series may be downloaded online.

Next, have students complete the practice activity in Part B. Be sure to highlight for students the examples of the language targets found in this activity.

Finally, give students a few minutes to individually complete Part C. After students have recorded their own responses, have them work in pairs to share

their answers with each other. This communicative activity will give students a chance to orally practice the language targets of the unit before moving on to the main listening activities of the unit.

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Listening 1 (10 min.)

Give students a minute or two to study the illustrations or photos that they see in Part A. Ask students to brainstorm some of the vocabulary related to these images or to briefly explain what they see in each image. After it is clear that students have considered each image, explain the activity for Part A by reading the instruction line together. These activities vary from unit to unit, so it is important to make sure students are clear about the task before they listen.

Then play the audio track listed for this activity.

Afterward, check the answers as a class.

The activity in Part B will always require students to listen to the dialog from Part A again. However, the activity will require students to do something new with the information they hear. These activities are purposely designed for repeated listening in order to allow students to experience the benefits of repetitive practice.

The activity in Part C may or may not require additional listening. In some cases, students need only think about the information heard in parts A and B and then complete the activity in Part C based on what they remember. In other cases, students may be required to listen to questions or statements in order to complete the activity.

Listening 2 (10 min.)

For Part A of Listening 2, repeat the process used in Part A of Listening 1.

For Part B of Listening 2, repeat the process used in Part B of Listening 1.

For Part C of Listening 2, repeat the process used in Part C of Listening 1.

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Listening 3 (10 min.)

For Part A of Listening 3, repeat the process used in Part A of Listening 1.

For Part B of Listening 3, repeat the process used in Part B of Listening 1.

For Part C of Listening 3, repeat the process used in Part C of Listening 1.

NOTE: In Listening Success 4 and Listening Success 5, this activity focuses on simple writing tasks.

Students who need additional support for these writing activities can refer to the sample responses presented in the answer keys of these books.

Test (10 min.)

For the test at the end of each unit, it is suggested that all five tracks for the test be played consecutively without a break. Then, when checking the test, play each part and check the answers for that part. This will allow for discussion time of difficult questions.

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(No time limit)

The following homework and supplemental activities are based on having students work with the transcripts provided with each book of this series.

Partial Dictation: Choose one of the tracks of the main listening activities from the unit or from the unit test. Prepare an overhead (or simply write on the board) every other line or sentence from the transcript for that track. Students should copy the lines or sentences from the board on a sheet of paper, leaving space between lines or sentences to write the missing parts. At home, students should listen to the assigned track and write the lines or sentences they hear that were not copied in class.

Team Quizzes: Divide the class into teams of 3-5 students. Each team should look through the transcripts of the unit that was studied that day.

Teams should select five sentences for other teams to write as dictation. These five sentences should be written on a sheet of paper and given to the instructor. After all of the teams have handed in their lists of sentences, the instructor reads one sentence from the first team’s list. All students write the sentence they hear. Then the instructor reads another sentence from the next team’s list. Continue until an appropriate number of sentences have been

read for dictation. Check in class or collect for a completion/quiz grade.

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l Unit 1 l 9 Write a greeting for the following situations.

1.

_____________________________________________________________

2.

_____________________________________________________________

3.

_____________________________________________________________

Match the pictures to the correct statement.

1.

2.

3.

I’m the president of the Glee Club.

Study the pictures and sentences.

1 2

Good morning! Welcome to Springview Hotel.

How may I help you?

Good morning,

everyone. I’m Anthony Bradford. I’m the president of this club.

Hi! I’m Dr. Rick Lodge. I’m here to attend a seminar.

Checking in at Lakeview Hotel

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02

You will hear three questions. Choose the best answer to each question.

1.

(c) Mr. Stark’s wife (d) People selling souvenirs

2.

(c) The view (d) The large beds

3.

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Listen again and write the answer to each question.

1.

He came to the hotel for _______________________.

2.

It is on _______________________.

3.

This hotel is in _______________________.

4.

He wants to buy her _______________________.

Track 01

Listen and circle the pictures that the speakers mention.

1 2 3 4

pool ballroom room restaurant

Join the Club!

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1.

2.

3.

4.

if she joins the club.

Track 03 Track

03

Listen and number the pictures in the correct order from 1-4.

Fill in the missing information in the club’s poster.

Glee Club

Tryouts: Next 1________________

(the week after 2________________)

Practice: 3________________ times per 4________________

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Meeting Dr. Andrews

Track 04

Check ( ) the boxes of the pictures that the speaker mentions.

1 2 3

4 5 6

Listen again. Fill in the blanks.

Track 04

Circle the words or phrases that describe Dr. Andrews.

(d) professor

(e) makes buildings and bridges

(f) received awards

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(a) chef

(b) expert in the field of art

(c) loves to paint

I have chosen to 6_____________ in French and Italian works.

It’s as important to me as 7_____________. I do them all 8______________!

I work as a 1_____________ at the Institute of

2_____________ here in ³_____________.

It was started by my 4_____________ and has been in our ⁵_____________ ever since.

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Track 05

Listen. Choose the best response.

3.

(b) I have a reservation. My name is Belle Cooper.

(c) My telephone number is 842-5691.

(d) Ms. Belle Cooper has arrived.

4.

(b) Yes. He is on vacation this week.

(c) Would you like me to reschedule your appointment?

(d) OK. What time would you like to meet him?

You will hear two short dialogs followed by questions. Choose the best answers to the questions.

5.

6.

(c) They will have breakfast together. (c) Tea

(d) They will have coffee together. (d) A meeting

7.

8.

1.

2.

Track 07 Track

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You will hear two short talks followed by questions. Choose the best answers to the questions.

9.

(c) Studying at the University of Montreal (d) Working part-time

10.

(b) He got his university degree last year.

(c) He wrote a book.

(d) He dropped out of school.

11.

12.

(b) At the Annual Sales Convention (c) At the Annual Foundation Feast (d) At the Forest Foundation

You will hear a dialog followed by questions. Choose the best answers to the questions.

13.

14.

(b) William Shakespeare (b) He studied theater in school.

(c) Other actors (c) He loved performing.

(d) His parents (d) His parents were directors.

15.

(b) Jealous

(c) Sad

(d) Curious

Track 09