This lesson plan is for a 25-minute listening and speaking lesson at CLB level 4 about saying goodbye. The lesson uses a song from The Sound of Music called "So Long, Farewell" to teach vocabulary for saying goodbye in English. Learners will do warmup activities, pre-listening tasks to predict the story and learn vocabulary, during-listening tasks to understand the gist and details of the song, and a post-listening speaking activity where learners individually say how they would say goodbye and what they would miss most about the class.

1. Teaching the Skills lesson plan – Listening/Speaking
Name Tracy Jennings-Beach
Time length of lesson 25 minutes
CLB Level 4
LINC Theme Family and Relationships
Topic Saying Goodbye
Communicative Skills Listening Speaking Reading Writing
Language (Technical) Skills(s) Grammar Pronunciation Vocabulary (select one or more)
COMMUNICATIVE SKILL COMPETENCY STATEMENTS
From CLB 2012 resource, specifically pages 11,47
By the end of the lesson, learners will be able to:
L-4-IV. Comprehending Information
• Understand short, descriptive, or narrative communication on topics of personal
relevance.
- Gets the gist
- Identifies factual details, some implied meanings, key words and expressions.
S-4-IV. Sharing Information
• Give brief descriptions of personal experiences, situations, or simple processes…
- Gives descriptions in coherent narratives.
LANGUAGE LEARNING OUTCOME(S)
By the end of the lesson, learners will be able to recognize and repeat familiar words and
phrases having to do with saying goodbye and identify the different ways to say goodbye: so
long, farewell, goodbye, goodnight, see you later, I hate to go, see you, bye-bye
Resources used
• LINC themes list
• CLB 2012 resource
• Teaching/Learning Companion 2002 resource
• Sound of Music, Rodgers & Hammerstein https://youtu.be/Qy9_lfjQopU
L /S Lesson Activity List (in order of time sequence of activities)
1. Warm-up

2. Discussion (p.42) Visual Stimuli (p.84)
- T has Ls look at picture
- T points out that school is coming to an end and explains we will have time to discuss
later.
- T asks Ls if they have ever had to say goodbye before and explains that the lesson
will be on saying goodbye
2. Pre-listening task – Vocabulary
Word Wall (p.88) Read Aloud (p.76)
- T ask Ls to identify what the word wall is (a list of words and phrases that mean
goodbye)
- Ls read aloud the words on word wall
- T discusses if meaning is formal informal
Pre-listening task – Story Prediction
Discussion (p.42) Visual Stimuli (p.84)
- T shows pictures of people saying goodbye in various situation. Calls on L’s to tell her
what is happening in the pictures
- T asks learners to tell her if saying goodbye is sad, happy, or both
- T explains that in a moment we will be listening to a goodbye song, explains that it uses
many different English words and ways to say goodbye as well as some foreign words –
but not to worry about them, just try to listen to the English words we have taken up
3. During-listening task – Gist
Anticipation Guide (p.149) Media Presentation (p.139) Media Analysis (p.166)
T asks Ls to listen think about the following and be ready to answer after playing the song
“So Long, Farewell” from the Sound of Music.
I. What is happening in the song?
II. Who is singing?
III. Who are they singing to?
4. During-listening task – Details
Media Presentation (p.139) Media Analysis (p.166) Workbook/ Worksheets
T asks Ls to listen again to the song and answer the following questions:
I. Who is sad to go? Who is happy to go?
II. What is are three English words or phrases they use as they leave?

3. III. Fill in the blanks with what you hear in the song:
goodbye So long hate to go gone to bed
glad to go like to stay
I ______ __ __ and leave this pretty sight
I'd _____ __ ____ and taste my first champagne
I leave and heave a sigh and say_____________
I'm ____ __ __, I cannot tell a lie
The sun has ____ __ ___ and so must I
__ ____, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, goodbye
5. Post-listening task – Individual speaking
Reflection (p.101) Oral presentation (p.13)
- T asks L to think about saying goodbye to our fellow students.
- T explains that in a moment, they are going to say what word they would like to use
as a goodbye – farewell, so long, see you later, etc. and in one SHORT sentence say
if they are happy or sad and what they will miss the most
Lyrics to Rogers and Hammerstein’s So long, Farewell from Sound of Music as used in this
presentation:
So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, good night
I hate to go and leave this pretty sight
So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, adieu
Adieu, adieu, to yieu and yieu and yieu
So long, farewell, au revoir, auf Wiedersehen

4. I'd like to stay and taste my first champagne
So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, goodbye
I leave and heave a sigh and say goodbye
Goodbye!
I'm glad to go, I cannot tell a lie
I flit, I float, I fleetly flee, I fly
The sun has gone to bed and so must I
So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye

5. Listening and Speaking Lesson
Your teacher: Tracy
Wednesday, May 13
Time to say
goodbye

6. Ways to say goodbye- formal or informal?
Goodbye Bye-bye See ya!
See ya
later!
Farewell!
Good-
night
Good day Bye
Talk to
you later
Catch you
later
Husnal
Anjum
Nadine

7. What is the
feeling in each
picture? Think
back to our
“feeling words”
Solmaz Niloo
Rahul Marci
Sad to leave
Glad to go
Will miss you
Good luck!

8. Listening activity
Gurpreet, please read out the following:
In a second, we’ll watch a video of a song from the movie,
The Sound of music.
While you are listening , see if you can get the gist of the song.
• What is the song about?
• Who is singing it?
• Who are they singing it to?
• Are all the words in English?
Katcha, Gaby, Gisella and Bibi, please be prepared to answer these
questions to the class when we are done everyone should think about the
answers

10. Listening activity
• Katcha, what is the song about?
• Gaby, who is singing it?
• Gisella, who are they singing it to?
• Bibi, are all the words English?

11. Now, listen to it again, but this time for detail
1. Who is sad to go? Who is happy to go? Lina
2. What are three different words or phrases they use to say goodbye? Shaheen
3. Fill in the blanks:
goodbye So long hate to go gone to bed
glad to go like to stay
I ______ __ __ and leave this pretty sight - Farah
I'd _____ __ ____ and taste my first champagne - Jenet
I leave and heave a sigh and say_____________ - Sonal
I'm ____ __ __, I cannot tell a lie -Afza
The sun has ____ __ ___ and so must I - Ali
__ ____, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, goodbye - Chao

13. 1. Who is sad to go? Who is happy to go? Lina
2. What are three different words or phrases they use to say goodbye? Shaheen
3. Fill in the blanks:
goodbye So long hate to go gone to bed
glad to go like to stay
I ______ __ __ and leave this pretty sight - Farah
I'd _____ __ ____ and taste my first champagne - Jenet
I leave and heave a sigh and say_____________ - Sonal
I'm ____ __ __, I cannot tell a lie -Afza
The sun has ____ __ ___ and so must I - Ali
__ ____, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, goodbye - Chao

14. Your turn! What word or Phrase would you use to say goodbye to your
fellow students? Will you be happy or sad or both? In a SHORT
sentence, say what you will miss the most about our class.
Goodbye Bye-bye See ya!
See ya
later!
Farewell!
Good-
night
Good day Bye
Talk to
you later
Catch you
later