A Day at Work: Mary’s Café and Ms. Smith’s Classroom

In this English lesson, students strengthen their listening comprehension, grammar awareness, and collaborative skills through two engaging texts about professions and daily work routines. Using the running dictation technique, learners listen to short narratives, note key information, and reconstruct the texts from memory. This activity focuses on subject–verb agreement, helping students notice and apply correct verb forms in context, including agreement with singular and plural subjects. Through group or pair work, learners practice accuracy, recall, and teamwork while developing strategies for active listening and language retention. By comparing their reconstructed versions with the original texts, students enhance self-correction skills, expand vocabulary related to jobs and workplaces, and build confidence in using English to describe daily professional activities.