Tuesday, October 15 - PM Intermediate/Advanced

Warm up: Pick a crazy family member and describe them as best you can.

Dictate the vocab again. Go over meanings.

Introduce SLO - Int: Listening 2: Listen and identify main ideas and details

And Adv: Listening 4: Take notes on main ideas and details.

What is a Main Idea?

Reference back to the interviews:

• Main Idea: Why people live in their neighborhood

• Details: Local people are friendly, a lot of nature, close to restaurants

• Another example: 

• Main Idea: Dogs make great pets

• Details: ask them! – loyal, friendly, protect your house

Introduce new listening:

• Explain Birth and Order and Theory to them- they can translate “theory”

• Have them do Predict- guess the answer based on your family

• Explain Birth Order Theory again: You’re confident because you’re the oldest

Listen to the lecture

• The first time, just listen! No notes

• Then, if you had to tell your friend what you just listened to in 1 sentence, what would you tell them? Write your sentence on a board

• Review their sentences and ask class for improvement recommendations