Unit 2: Listening Skills and Cooperative Learning

Summary

In this lesson, the teacher prepares students to listen to a recording and respond. She uses the learning strategy focus. By asking a question before playing the recording, she helps students to listen for a purpose.

Then, she organizes a cooperative learning activity using cards that describe roles. The students work toegether to create and practice a conversation about food. The purpose of cooperative learning is for each student to play a different, but equally meaningful, role in achieving one overall goal.

Giving students cooperative roles also helps ensure that everyone does an equal part in group work.

Teacher Preparation Video Transcript

This episode shows a model of teaching listening skills. Click on the image below to download a pdf of the transcript.

Women Teaching Women English Text

Click on the image below to download a pdf of the student text and teacher manual. At the end of the ten-unit course, the whole book will be available for download.​

Women Teaching Women English Listening

These audio files go with Unit 2 of Women Teaching Women English.​