listening activities

Listening II

Chile’s Natural History Museum: Now In A Metro Station Near You

Ability: Listening Comprehension

Time 5 hrs.

Objectives

1.-Apply strategies and techniques for to understand the message,
recognize the news media, identify the role of communication in spoken texts.

2.-Uses thematic and linguistic knowledge, employers
syntactic and intonational and strategies to interpret literal.

3.- Uses thematic and linguistic knowledge, employers
syntactic and intonational and strategies to interpret literal
inferentially or oral discourse.

FUNTIONS: Express interest about the information

MORPHOSYNTACTICS AND

STRUCTURAL: present perfect, present simple. Past simple,

FORMULA:Descriptions

 NOUNS:awaraness, employee, inability, disease

VERBS:evolved, estimated, wiped, replied.

ADJECTIVES:lower,major,

ADVERBS: usually, quite, typically

Pre-reading

Listen to the story about  a boy with his mother.( the teacher will read in front of the class to the student)

“Mom, that’s such a big fish!” a young boy cried out to his mother as he looked up at a life-size replica of a Dunkleosteus, an armored fish that typically grew to 16 feet in length, weighed over a ton, and went extinct 360 million years ago.

Not something you usually see in a subway station.

“I know, dear, it’s very big,” the boy’s mother replied as she ran over to stop his younger brother from banging on the glass of a display case with million-years-old fossils inside.

“I want to play!” the younger brother pleaded.

“Honey, you can’t play with those, they’re not toys,” the mother replied. “It’s a museum. For learning. Besides, we need to catch a train home.”

The little boy looked disappointed. Then he turned around, saw a life-size model of a Velociraptor, screamed, and began to cry.

While- listening

The teacher will read with the student  the following text.

Chile’s Natural History Museum: Now In A Metro Station Near You

WRITTEN BY ZACH SIMON

THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2011 21:42

Chile’s Natural History Museum customarily puts its exhibits in a 136-year-old building beside Santiago’s Quinta Normal Metro station. But the 8.8-magnitude earthquake of February 2010 severely damaged the museum, which is closed for repairs and renovations till, it’s said, June 2012. So for now, the museum has farmed out many exhibits to other venues, including Metro stations and other museums. For example, if you want to see how earth evolved, you need to go to the Air and Space Museum. But if you are content with an exhibit on the five major mass extinctions of the past 540 million years—complete with fossils, paintings, replicas of extinct creatures (think dinosaurs), and educational videos—you can find it in Quinta Normal’s subway station, lower level, next to the tunnel to (and from) the Museum of Memory and Human Rights. “We’ve been open here since last December,” said Victor, a museum employee who hands out programs at the “subway museum.” “We get a lot of people here, a lot of whom actually come specifically to view the exhibit. People in the subway are usually in a rush to get where they’re going, so they don’t go out of their way to visit the exhibit. Those who visit mean to. Weekends especially are quite crowded,” he told The Santiago Times. The exhibit doesn’t only treat the ancient past; it also promotes awareness of the ecological state of our planet, past, present and future. One sign reads: “It is estimated that on average a species goes extinct about 10 million years after its first appearance because of disease, disaster, or inability to adapt to changed surroundings. The leading cause of extinction today is the destruction of habitat. It is predicted that by 2100 there will be only half of the species that exist today.” “I had no idea,” Angela, a mother on her way home with her 5-year-old son, told The Santiago Times. “Can you imagine so many creatures dying out?” In a separate part of the exhibit, a dog started barking at one of the larger replicas. A family spanning three generations—a grandmother, a mother, and a young daughter—was strolling through the exhibit with their Dachshund on a leash. “We’re on our way to the park,” the mother told The Santiago Times. “Just thought we’d drop by and take a look.” A look at what happened when dinosaurs ruled the land and when they and practically everything else was wiped out by an asteroid. By Zach Simon ( editor@santiagotimes.cl ) Copyright 2011 – The Santiago Times

Post-listening

Work in group (3/4 p )You have to create a tv program where you can show in front to class like a interview. (15 minutes)

You need to:

Organize with different rols.

Create a name to the Program.

Create a scenary.