Listening Texts
Before using the listening texts below, read the section on Listening in the online Teacher’s Guide ( www.macmillan-caribbean.com ) Remember that any of the reading texts can be read aloud to students. Questions can be asked to check their understanding and their ability to infer and use context clues orally. You may wish to change the speech in a story to Creole, then repeat it later in Standard English for your students to compare. There follows a series of read-aloud texts, designed to practise and assess students’ listening skills. Each is signposted in the Student’s Book by in the unit to which it relates.
Unit 1: Assessment (page 14) During the holidays, Jaydon’s grandmother took him to the beach. She sat down under a tree and warned Jaydon not to go too far. Jaydon saw a big red ball bouncing across the sand. He ran to pick it up but it rolled into the sea. Jaydon turned around and looked for his grandmother. He could not see her and began to panic. Then he saw her waving her red scarf and heard her call, ‘Jaydon, over here!’ Unit 2: Listen up! (page 15) Read the whole text aloud without stopping. Ask students what the text is about (the main idea). Read it again, pausing to ask questions to check comprehension. Kirani James is a champion athlete. He was born in St John in Grenada in 1992 and attended the Grenada Boys’ Secondary School. He won his first gold medal for running at the Commonwealth Youth Games when he was only 16 years old. In 2012, Kirani represented Grenada at the Olympic Games in London. He won a gold medal for the 200-metre race. Since then, Kirani has won many more medals for running. Kirani’s nickname is ‘The Jaguar’ because he runs so fast. Unit 3: Speaking and listening (page 24) Tell students to close their books. Explain that they will hear two texts. One is part of a story (fiction) and the other is information (non-fiction). Explain that you want them to tell you which is which and why they think that.
Text A A crane is a machine than lifts heavy objects and moves them from one place to another. It is made of a strong metal boom which can swing around. A cable or chain is suspended from the boom. The heavy object is attached to the cable using a large hook. Ask students to identify the features of non-fiction from this extract (gives us information, contains fact, uses technical language). Text B The children stared at the enormous machine which had just landed in their garden. ‘What do you think it is?’ Alyssa gasped. ‘I don’t know,’ her brother replied. ‘I’ve never seen anything like it before. Do you think it’s come from outer space?’ ‘Don’t go near it. It might be dangerous,’ Alyssa warned her brother. Ask students to identify features of fiction from this extract, e.g. it tells a story, it includes conversation. Read both texts again and discuss the questions on page 24.
145
Made with FlippingBook Learn more on our blog