Days of Laughs: From Mall Adventures to Birthday Parties

In this English lesson, students enhance their listening comprehension, grammatical awareness, and collaborative skills through two engaging stories about fun activities. Using the dictogloss technique, learners actively listen to short narratives about leisure and social experiences, take notes with the support of visual aids, and reconstruct the stories from memory. The lesson focuses on the past perfective and imperfective aspect in main clauses, helping students understand how these forms express sequence, duration, and background actions in the past. 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 strengthen their self-monitoring and editing skills, deepen their understanding of narrative structure, and build confidence in using English to describe past experiences and events in a coherent and meaningful way.