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- 1. Middle School EnglishCourse LISTENING SKILLS • An episode of the radio program Yes, What? will be played for you to listen and evaluate. • Please listen carefully, then answer the questions as they appear on the following slides. • Please save your work after each question, before clicking on to the next slide. Prevent loss of work. Type in your name(s) below. 1. 2. 3. 4.
- 2. Question 1 This isin 4 parts. One pupil in Yes, What? asked, “What’s a tyrant, sir?” i. Discuss and write the meaning of tyrant. ii.Consider the meanings of 2 related words: tyranny and tyrannical. (Discussion only; no writing) iii.Which one of these 3 words is not a noun? iv.What type of word is it? Multiple choice: underline or place a tick next to your answer. • verb • adjective
- 3. Question 2 Who isthe teacher for this class in Yes, What? Type your answer below. Hint 1: you need to listen very carefully from the start to hear this name. Hint 2: The teacher’s name is a single word, without Mr., Mrs. or Miss. •
- 4. Question 3 Who arethe three boys in this class? Type in your best answers. We will check their spelling during our class discussion. 1. 2. 3.
- 5. Question 4 Who isthe boy who arrived late to class? •
- 6. Question 5 Are thereany girls in this class? • Yes • No Underline or add a tick next to the right answer.
- 7. Question 6 What wasthe lesson (supposed to be) about? Multiple choice answer - underline or add a tick . • Geometry • Arithmetic • Geography • History • English language • Poetry • Characters in a play
- 8. Question 7 Did theteacher and students complete the work that was planned for the lesson? • Yes • No Underline or add tick . Why (or why not)? •
- 9. Question 8 How wouldyou describe the mood of the teacher? More than one answer is possible. • •
- 10. Question 9 In whichperiod of time do you think Yes, What? is set? (e.g. 1900, 1930’s, 1990’s, 21st century) • Give reasons for your answer. •
- 11. Question 10 Is theteacher happy and successful in his job? Matter of opinion • Yes • No Underline or add tick . Why (or why not)? • • •
- 12. Question 11 Are theevents in Yes, What? typical of real classroom situations in the time the program was set? • Yes • No Underline or add tick .
- 13. Question 12 –Extra Activity (For students who finish Questions 1-11 early) May be done in another lesson Can you Yes, What? Go online and find any websites that provide information about Yes, What? Copy and paste below any suitable website addresses you find. • • • •
Editor's Notes
- #2 Students appreciate the value of comedy for their intellectual and emotional development. They also recognise the various means of its communication to audiences – print and electronic – with focus on the available household devices prior to television in Australia. Most importantly for this lesson, students understand the purpose of this listening task for their comprehension, analysis and evaluation. They apply their understandings by exploiting their information and communications technology (ICT) skills, thereby employing 21st century resources to maximise their appreciation of entertainment from a bygone era.
- #3 Students enhance their vocabulary with new terms and variations of them.
- #4 Students detect a singular name with neither a prefix title nor surname.
- #5 Students apply their understandings of English vowel and consonant pronunciations, converting these sounds to written format.
- #8 Students discern the intended theme of the lesson in Yes, What? by attentively listening to its lesson content.
- #9 Students at this academic phase determine to what extent the session outcomes in Yes, What? were realised. They identify the factors that either supported or impeded the progress of the lesson.
- #10 Suitable adjectives including ‘angry’, ‘confused’, ‘unhappy’, ‘disappointed’ and ‘frustrated’ merit consideration.
- #11 Students extrapolate – from history studies of the era 1900 to present - the period represented by Yes, What? They support their claims by detecting attributes of the school context, e.g. school bell (traditional, not electric/amplified), corporal punishment, and absence of modern technology (computers, mobile phones, etc.)
- #12 Neither response is absolutely right or wrong, and either may be justified. By adopting either the ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ position, students furnish reasons based upon their impressions of the teacher-pupil interactions.
- #13 Logical thinking is required to deduce actions that are unacceptable in a real classroom, regardless of its era. Students acknowledge the frivolity of Yes, What? as merely a play recorded for a radio program. They could engage higher order thinking skills to infer the consequences of such misdemeanour in a real classroom during the period the program represents.
- #14 As with most teaching-learning experiences, students work at different paces; some will finish earlier than others. To eliminate boredom (and possible infractions), the quicker students may investigate this program further by entering its keywords into a popular Internet search engine, viz. Google, Yahoo, Lycos and WebCrawler, to name a few.