This document provides an overview and instructions for an English for Specific Purposes lesson about talks. It outlines the structure of the lesson which includes a quiz, practice identifying announcements, previewing content words, dictation practice, tests, and reviewing for an upcoming midterm exam. The midterm will assess listening, reading, vocabulary, and strategy skills developed in prior lessons. Students are advised to study vocabulary words, listening question previewing, and incomplete sentence/text completion techniques.

1. English for Specific Purposes
Lesson 6
Talks

2. Quiz
•2 minutes to review
homework
•Pass in your
homework
•Take the quiz

3. Talks
• Like the Conversations
questions, but only 1
person talking
Announcements
(train, store, etc.)
News/Weather
Business meetings

4. Announcements
• Page 32, Part 1
Listen to four
announcements
Decide where they are
from

5. Announcements
• Page 32, Part 2
Read the phrases in the
orange box
Listen again
When you hear a
phrase, write the letter

6. Content words
• Reminder: Content words are
“important” words—usually
nouns or verbs
• For talks (like conversations)
preview the questions and
answers, looking at the
content words

7. Content words
• Goal: To guess
What (big topic)
Where
Who
What details to listen for

8. Practice
• Page 34
Preview questions 1-3
Predict the information at
the top
Listen, and answer

9. Dictation practice
• Page 37, Part D
• Listen and fill in the
blanks

10. Mini-test
• Page 38
• Questions 1-6
• Questions 7-12

11. Practice
• Try p. 53, questions 1-3
You have 30 seconds for
the first pass
You have 60 seconds for
the second pass

12. Voice mails
• Page 88, purple box
Pattern
•Introduction
•Purpose/background
•Request/suggestion/option
Part 1
Part 3

13. Midterm
• The next class is the
midterm
• Four parts:
Listening
17
Reading (IS/TC) 21
Vocabulary
30
Strategy
5

14. Midterm—Listening
• 5 Photograph questions
• 2 Conversations
3 questions each
• 2 Talks
3 questions each
• Ph. Q only
once, Conv/Talks played

15. Midterm—Reading
• 15 Incomplete Sentences
• 2 Text Completion
3 questions each

16. Midterm—Vocab
• 30 questions from all of
the words you’ve had
from the homework so
far
3 x 5 definitions
3 x 5 “Text Completion”

17. Midterm—Strategy
• 5 questions about “how”
to succeed on the TOEIC
Content words
Parts of speech
Methods

18. Studying?
• Learn all 129 vocabulary
words
• Practice previewing
listening questions
• Practice IS & TC
questions in the book

19. Studying?
• Know:
Content words (p. 25)
2-pass method for IS/TC
(p.41)
Future tenses (p. 40)
Past tenses (p. 43)
Parts of speech (p. 48)
Suffixes (p. 51)