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.
Who Does What
In this English lesson, students develop grammar awareness, comprehension, and communicative skills through structured activities focused on subject-verb agreement. Following the Processing Instruction approach, learners are guided to notice the agreement between subjects and verbs, including the singular use of indefinite pronouns (everybody, nobody, someone, etc.), and to identify grammatical and ungrammatical forms. Through referential and affective activities, students listen, read, complete gaps, match subjects with verbs, and evaluate sentence correctness, while also engaging in discussions about their personal experiences and opinions. Pair and group work promote active engagement, peer correction, self-monitoring, and confidence in accurately using subject-verb agreement in meaningful and personalized contexts.
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 stories about different professions. Using the dictogloss technique, learners listen to short narratives describing daily work routines, take notes with the help of visual aids, and reconstruct the texts from memory. This activity focuses on subject–verb agreement, helping students notice and apply correct verb forms in context. Through group or pair work, they practice accuracy, recall, and teamwork while developing strategies for active listening and language retention. By comparing their reconstructed versions with the original texts, learners enhance their self-correction skills, expand vocabulary related to jobs and workplaces, and build confidence in using English to describe people’s occupations and everyday professional activities.
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