Lesson Plan: Reading and Listening Skills

Course: Reading and Listening Skills

Trainers: All

Level of Learners: Undergraduates

Duration: 100 Minutes

Main Aim: By the end of session, learners will enhance their

 listening skills
 reading skills

Procedure Stage Aim Interaction Time Material

Pattern
Students will enhance S (individual) 35 mins Sheet +
Activity: ‘Read and Tweet’ their reading and question
 Trainer will divide the class into groups of language skills sheet
04 people each. (distribute
through
 Trainer will distribute the reading passage
the
(Chetan Bhagat’s blog on: ‘Let there be (Each WhatsApp
English, but abolish caste system around the group/indivi group)
language’ to each group. dual will get
 Ask the students to read the paragraphs and 10 mins to (Sheets
summarize and make a creative ‘Tweet’ out read the attached)
paragraphs
of the same.
and write a
‘creative’
 Collect all the tweets and put them on the tweet)
board in the random order, on a board. T-S
Now ask the other groups to read them and Students will enhance
identify the order in which they should be their reading and (5 mins to
arranged with respect to each creative skills read and
identify and
passage/sheet.
match the
tweets to
Eg. Of creative tweet could be: ‘It said: “Wander
paragraphs)
through life or read between me”, I read and
wandered through life’.- (read between lines or
wander through life, I read between lines and
wandered through life).

 Trainer will then explain the types of texts

and strategies to read and comprehend

Types of texts:

Informational text
Chronological text
Problem and solution text
Proposition and Support texts

General Logical order of text: 5Ws and 1 H

 Students will read the same and answer the

questions accordingly, given in the question
sheet.
 ‘Audio Activity’ Students will enhance S (Individual) 35 mins Audio +
their listening and Question
 Trainer will distribute the audio and the language skills sheet
questions along with the same to the (distribute
students. through
 Students will listen to the audio for 05 mins the
30 seconds first, and then answer few WhatsApp
questions based on the same in the sheet group)
and then repeat the exercise with next 06
mins 30 seconds of audio- so total 12 mins
of audio). (Sheets
attached)
 Students will listen to the audio (maximum
twice) and answer the questions.

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 Activity: ‘Find out the Secret’: Students will enhance S to S 30 min Sheet
 Trainer will divide the class into group of 05 their listening and attached
students each (Avg. 60 students- approx 12 creative skills
groups)

 Give each group an idiom or phrase and ask

them to create a dialogue around it- the
dialogues should not be more than 01 min.

 Then ask each group to come and converse

in front of the class and let other groups find
out the idiom in those dialogues and explain
the meaning.