The 40-minute lesson plan aims to teach listening skills through a worksheet about two Hong Kong tourist attractions: the Hong Kong Museum of History and the Big Buddha. Students will first read background materials and then listen to audio guides to complete information sheets. They will then discuss which attraction they prefer and why. For homework, students will design an information sheet for another Hong Kong tourist spot using online research.

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Asia’s World City - Listening
LESSON PLAN
Class: Secondary 3 (Average to above-average)
Lesson Duration: 40 minutes
Textbook: Oxford English 3A (Worksheet)
Previous Students have learnt:
knowledge: 1. popular local tourist attractions such as The Peak and Victoria Habour
2. detailed description of a particular place
Learning By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
objectives: 1. identify keywords and information in recordings and complete the
information sheet
2. extract specific information in the travel guide to complete the
information sheet
3. express their views on local tourist attractions verbally
4. design an information sheet for a tourist attraction with the help of
online travel and audio guides
Language 1. Targeted listening: keywords and numbers
Focus: 2. Reading: skimming and scanning
3. Speaking: discussion and reporting
Teaching PowerPoint slides (Appendix I), Worksheet (Appendix II)
Materials:
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Procedures:
Time
Teaching Steps Purpose
Allocation
Pre-listening
4 minutes 1. T shows a Youtube video to Ss. Get Ss’ attention in the beginning
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= of the lesson
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T asks the following questions: Let Ss recall vocabulary covered in
i. What adjectives have you the Reading lesson
learnt in describing Hong
Kong?
ii. Can you notice any tourist
attractions in the video?
2 minutes 2. T tells Ss the following: Provide instructions to Ss
i. Uncle Alan in the US watched
this video and found Hong
Kong very attractive.
ii. He planned to visit Hong
Kong and have sent an email
to you.
T shows the email on the
PowerPoint slides (Appendix I);
asks Ss to read through it.
1 minute 3. T asks Ss to tell what is going to Q&A to check Ss’ understanding of
happen and what they need to do. the instructions
T tells Ss that they have collected Provide instructions to Ss
some information about the two
tourist attractions and their audio
guides from the website:
i. http://www.discoverhongkong.com/
eng/attractions/museum-hongkong-
history.html
ii. http://www.discoverhongkong.com/
eng/attractions/outlying-giant-budd
ha.html
1 minute 4. T tells Ss that they want to prepare Introduce the purpose of listening to
an information sheet for each Ss
tourist spot with the help of
collected information.
7 minutes 5. T asks Ss to read through the travel Let Ss practise skimming and
guides and the information sheet scanning skills
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first on P.2-5 of the Worksheet
(Appendix II) before listening to
the audio guides.
0.5 minute 6. T introduces the first listening skill: Provide instructions to Ss
listening for keywords on P.1 of the
Listening Worksheet (Appendix II)
0.5 minute 7. T gives Ss examples of keywords: Present the new language: listening
for keywords
i. Listening for location: located
in/at, seated on
ii. Listening for weight and height:
weigh(s), tall
iii. Listening for components:
comprise(s) of
0.5 minute 8. T introduces the second listening Provide instructions to Ss
skill: listening for numbers on P.1
of the Worksheet (Appendix II).
0.5 minute 9. T reads the numbers aloud slowly Present the new language: listening
and writes them on board such as for numbers
123=one-two-three/one hundred
and twenty-three.
1 minute 10. T writes a few more three-digit Check Ss’ understanding of reading
numbers such as 768, 941 and 475 three-digit numbers aloud
on the board; asks Ss to call them
out.
While-listening
10 minutes 1. T plays the audio guides; asks Ss to Let Ss practice the new language
(Duration of listen for necessary information and (listening for keywords and
the audio complete the two information numbers) in the listening exercise
guides: 6 sheets on P.4-5 of the Worksheet
minutes) (Appendix II).
Post-listening
4 minutes 1. T goes through answers of the Assess how much Ss can achieve in
listening exercise with Ss. the exercise
0.5 minute 2. T asks Ss if they know such detailed Prepare Ss for discussion
information about the two tourist
attractions.
2 minutes 3. T asks Ss to discuss in pairs to Let Ss practice discussing skills
choose which place they prefer to
visit and why.
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4 minutes 4. T asks a few pairs to report their Let Ss practice reporting skills
preference and reasons.
Closing
0.5 minute 1. T reminds Ss that they have learnt Review the lesson quickly to
about listening for keywords and strengthen Ss’ memory
numbers in this lesson.
1 minute 2. T assigns homework to Ss: Let Ss produce the new language at
home on their own
Information Sheet Design
i. Choose one tourist attraction
that you are interested in
ii. Find its information and audio
guide from the Hong Kong
Tourism Board website
iii. Design an information sheet (no
fixed format; pictures may also
be included)
iv. Upload the homework to the
blog
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