Training for Success: The journey of Athletes

In this English lesson, students develop listening comprehension, grammar awareness, and collaborative skills through two engaging stories about sports. Using the dictogloss technique, learners listen to narratives about training and competitions, take notes with visual support, and reconstruct the texts from memory. The lesson focuses on present perfect progressive and past perfect progressive, helping students notice and use forms such as have/has been practicing and had been training in context. Through pair or group work, learners practice accuracy, recall, and teamwork while improving strategies for active listening. By comparing their reconstructions with the original texts, students enhance self-correction skills and gain confidence in describing ongoing and past activities in English.