Description: Understand a speaker’s personal response to hospital food, discern between fact and opinion about food.
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Level: A2
Target audience: all college level students
General goals/objectives: listening comprehension
Specific goals/objectives:
- understand a speaker’s personal response to hospital food, discerning between fact and opinion about food
Materials needed for activity: (check the following)
X internet access _projector X speakers _ printout _ BYOD (Bring Your Own Device – smartphone, tablet)
_ other: __________________
Time: 20 minutes
Overview: Listen to audio clip and fill in the table.
Activity 1
- Introduce concepts of fact/opinion. Elicit examples.
- Pre-teach any necessary vocabulary from the audio clip (script can be accessed through the link in the activity).
- Explain context of audio clip: someone is being asked about their opinion of hospital food.
- Show the phrases in the table and explain that these will be used in the person’s answer.
- Play the clip and have the Ss mark the ‘fact’ or ‘opinion’ column.
- As a summary, discuss the contextual factors/language that led them to their decisions.
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| Reception / Listening | Listening as a member of a live audience | Can follow in outline straightforward short talks on familiar topics provided these are delivered in clearly articulated standard speech (B1) |
| Reception / Listening | Listening to audio | Can understand the main points of radio news bulletins and simpler recorded material about familiar subjects delivered relatively slowly and clearly (B1) |
| Production / Writing | Overall written production | Can write simple isolated phrases and sentences (A1) |
| Production / Writing | Creative writing | Can write very short, basic descriptions of events, past activities and personal experiences (A2+) |
or
| Production / Speaking | Overall spoken production | Can give a simple description or presentation as a short series of simple phrases and sentences linked into a list (adapted A2) |
| Interaction / Spoken | Overall spoken interaction | Can communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar and routine matters (adapted A2) |
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Listen to this audio clip of Barbara discussing her response to hospital food. Mark each of the items below as fact or opinion.
| Statement |
Fact? Opinion? |
| ‘They didn’t let me eat anything.’ | |
| ‘I was dreaming about my mother’s cooking.’ | |
| ‘I actually felt fine.’ | |
| ‘I’ve lost 20 kilos’ | |
| ‘I feel much better’ | |
| ‘[Being] sick was probably a good thing’ |
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