ACTIVITY 2

Main goal

Using top-down and bottom-up strategies. Listen for chunks to order sentences and choose the correct options.

Time: 15 minutes

Materials: Video from: http://www.youtube.com/embed/AlTL90WSLvg

Level: medium

Technical requirements: internet connection

Pre-listening activity;

Ask question: “Who’s your best friend?”
Keep record of answers. e.g.: my sister, my boyfriend, I don’t have one, etc.

While-listening activity.

Tell students they will listen to a person interviewing people.

Explain that they will not understand every word they will  hear and that it is normal.

 Ask students to listen and just count how many people answer the question. (They are 3)

 State that they will listen to the recording again and now they have to match the Speakers to the main ideas. (Give a distractor)

Play the recording again and ask students to choose the correct option;

Speaker 1.        _____ She has got a good friend. He is funny and nice.

                          _____ She has got a best friend. He is funny and nice.

                          _____ She hasn’t got any friends.

Speaker 2.        _____ He has got a girlfriend.

                          _____ He loves his friends.

                          _____ He has got two best friends.

Speaker 3.       _____ His best friend is a girl he met at school.

                         _____ His best friend is a boy he met at school.

                         _____ His best friend is a boy he met at the sports centre.

In order to check, ask students to share in pairs their answers and explicitly say what they heard to take the decision.

Set a minute or two to decide and convince each other of the right answers.

Share answers with the group.                        

Post-listening

Discuss the strategies used to carry out the task.