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13.1.1 Listening Comprehension: Extensive Listening

English · Grade 7 · 2 lessons in the design

What this covers

  • Extensive listening to songs on local and long-distance land travel
  • Key issues: distance, home, danger, fare, hope, roads
  • Vocabulary from lyrics used in oral sentences; choral singing

What you will be able to do

  • identify the key issues raised in songs addressing land travel
  • listen attentively to songs on land travel
  • use vocabulary identified from songs on land travel correctly
  • acknowledge the importance of extensive listening in communication

Key questions

“How can we tell the main message in a song?”

Lessons

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  1. Key issues in a land-travel song
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Listen once for the overall message, again for issues such as home, fare, danger or hope. Do not chase every word.
  2. Words from the song; sing the chorus
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Infer two lyric words, use them in oral sentences, and sing the chorus together as attentive listeners.