Warm-Up (15 Minutes)

History of Drinks Lesson Plan

Learning Objectives: To practise listening for Preparation Time: 5 minutes detail; note-taking; speaking and sharing ideas and Completion Time: 60 minutes opinions related to drinks. Age/Level: Adult/Intermediate–High Skill: Listening Intermediate Resources: A History of Drinks Quiz, pens, paper, a whiteboard and pens

Warm-Up (15 minutes) • Dictate the following questions: - What have you drunk so far today? - What did you drink yesterday? - What are the healthiest drinks you know? - And the least healthy? - Are there any drinks that are popular in your country, but difficult to find anywhere else? • Students discuss the questions in groups of three.

Introducing Listening for Detail (2 minutes)  Write ‘Listening for Detail’ on the board, and ask students to imagine that they are at a station, they want to get to London, and they don’t know what platform to go to. They then hear a muffled announcement which sounds like ‘Blah blah blah…London…blah blah…platform three… blah blah blah’. Point out that, because you have a question in mind when you begin listening, even if you don’t understand every word you can still extract the important information. This is called ‘listening for detail’.

Listening: Drinks Quiz (30 minutes) • Tell the class that they are going to do some listening for detail, on the topic of drinks. First, they are going to do some speaking in groups.

• Go through the quiz activity entitled A History of Drinks Quiz , in which learners do an ordering activity, then check their answers by listening to a text that is read aloud in class. N.B. This quiz activity has its own teacher’s notes.

Author: Tom Booth Page 1/2 © Pearson Education 2008 PHOTOCOPIABLE

History of Drinks Lesson Plan

Key: 1 wine, approx. 6000 BC 1= beer, approx. 6000 BC 3 tea, approx. 2000 BC 4 Chinese rice wine, 8th Century BC 5 Japanese sake, 3rd Century AD 6 coffee, 9th Century AD 7 whisky, 1405 8 tequila, 16th Century 9 Coca-Cola, 1885 10 7up, 1920 11 smoothies, the 1930s.

Personal Response to the Listening (10 minutes) • Dictate the following questions: - What facts in the listening activity surprised you most? - Which of the drinks from the listening activity do you drink? - Which of the drinks from the listening activity are popular in your country? - Are there any other popular drinks in your country that were not in the speaking activity? • Regroup students into new threes to discuss the questions.

Closure (3 minutes) • Read the following sentences. Students stand up if they think it’s true; sit down if they think it’s false. - Tea is the oldest drink in the world. - Coffee originally came from Africa. - When you are listening and trying to find a piece of information, quite often you don’t need to understand every word you hear. KEY: false; true; true.