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.