Hospital Food

Title of LO:  Hospital Food

Level: B1

Target audience:  all college level students

General goals/objectives: listening comprehension

Specific goals/objectives:

1. understand a speaker’s personal response to hospital food, discerning between fact and opinion about food

Materials needed for activity: (check the following)

Xinternet access

_projector

Xspeakers

_printout

_BYOD (Bring Your Own Device - smartphone, tablet)

_other: __________________

Time:  20 min

Overview:  Listen to audio clip and fill in the table.

Activity 1

1. Introduce concepts of fact/opinion. Elicit examples.
2. Pre-teach any necessary vocabulary from the audio clip (script can be accessed through the link in the activity).
3. Explain context of audio clip: someone is being asked about their opinion of hospital food.
4. Show the phrases in the table and explain that these will be used in the person’s answer.
5. Play the clip and have the Ss mark the ‘fact’ or ‘opinion’ column.
6. As a summary, discuss the contextual factors/language that led them to their decisions.

Supplementary materials

None

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