Lesson/Review Assignment #2
Lesson: Apartment for Rent
Level: Beginner to Low Intermediate
Time: 45 minutes
Objectives: Students will be able to look for online apartment ads and be able to communicate with landlords when making appointments to view places to rent.
Materials: Computer, headphones
Lesson Introduction: (10 minutes)
The teacher will ask students whether they live at home with their parents, if they live with a relative, whether they rent and live with a roommate or if they rent by themselves. Students then asks those students to talk about their experience looking for an apartment and to share it with the class.
The teacher then moves on to introduce terminology related to the lesson:
rent, apartment, security deposit, loft, condominium, walk-up, high-rise, contract, budget, utilities
Listening Activity/Technology Integration: (15 minutes)
1: Go to the website: Randall's ESL Lab: Apartments for Rent
- Scroll down to Part 2: Listening Exercises
- Click on the play button. Listen to the conversation. Listen to the conversation 2 to 3 times or as much as you need to to understand the conversation.
- Answer the listening comprehension question (5 questions)
Post Listening Activity (Role Play): (20 minutes)
With a classmate go to the Chicago Reader Rentals Page. Look at some of the rental ads on the page. Pick the one that you are most interested in and role play calling a real estate agent or a landlord for information about your desired ad. Reverse roles. Both classmates should have the same participation in the activities, meaning both have to be the agent or landlord and the caller. You can go on to ESL Lab Quiz Script for reference
Review Questions:
1. How will you use this resource to meet the needs of your instructional purposes?
This resource will help me provide a base for the the activity I want my students to achieve which is the role play/speaking activity. Although the activity is a controlled one, students will get the idea of how to act when the time comes for looking for a place to live. This activity provides a listening exercise that provide the students with background information and key vocabulary for this specific type of situation; vocabulary and information that will be essential for the future.
2. Why is this application and format appropriate for the lesson you plan to create (e.g., level of authenticity, relevance to target language, register, accuracy, interest level, and motivation)?
This lesson provides the students with an opportunity for authentic practice in the classroom. Students are able to look online for a rental ad, much like they would in real life, and apply the situation in an authentic way in the classroom with the support of a classmate and the teacher’s supervision. This is an activity that will be useful in the future for the student.
3. Are the format, organization, design and language level of this resource
appropriate for your instructional goals?
Since this is an oral communication class this activity fits really good with the curriculum. The focus of the course is to get students familiarized with communication activities that will help them in their future, to be comfortable when specific life situations come their way. This website aids the students with these situations since the website is so simple, divided into levels. This resource is great for students to use at home for further practice.
4. What are the potential problems, either language based or technical that
you may need to troubleshoot or prepare for?
Students can encounter problems with the page being down, so before the activity I would check that the website is up and running before the class begins. I would also check for internet connection in each computer and that audio works with each headphone. Lower level students might have problems cruising through the website because there is a lot of material in the site that can help with student confusion. I would make myself available to the students in case they are facing any confusion. If the students are having language problems I would suggest they open an online dictionary website for language support, i.e. WordReference.
Glorimar, I really like your follow-up activity because it shows the students how to apply the listening sample to a real-life situation. I would suggest creating possible sentence starters for them for the role play, or some sort of graphic organizer to help them organize their conversation better. I think front-loading the vocabulary words will really help at the beginning of the lesson, but they may need additional resources to support language use, especially if they are at a beginning or low intermediate level. Good work!
ReplyDeleteI see you chose Randall's too! I also like your post-listening activity, which allows the students to use what they've just learned in a real-life context. You could even take it a step further with the technology angle and have the students video or record their role plays to show to the class.
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