Lesson Plan

• Identify main ideas and supporting details in spoken texts.
• Recognise speakers’ opinions, attitudes and emotions through tone and signal words.
• Analyse how ideas are linked (cause‑effect, contrast, comparison) in a listening passage.
• Produce concise written answers that paraphrase information and show the connections identified.

• Projector and speakers
• Audio clips (e.g., interview with a climate‑change activist, news report)
• Printed worksheets with question sets and emotion‑tag strips
• Whiteboard and markers
• Student notebooks or laptops for note‑taking
• Signal‑word handout

Begin with a short, engaging podcast excerpt and ask students what they expect to hear based on the title. Review prior knowledge of signal words and how tone conveys feeling. Explain that today they will demonstrate how ideas, opinions and emotions are connected in spoken texts and will be assessed on clear, paraphrased answers.

1. Do‑now (5'): Students write predictions for a sample audio prompt using key‑word cues.
2. Mini‑lecture (7'): Model active listening – predict, note signal words, identify tone, and paraphrase.
3. Guided practice (12'): Play the climate‑activist interview; students complete a worksheet that asks for main idea, two supporting reasons, the activist’s feeling, and a contrast statement.
4. Signal‑Word Hunt (8'): In pairs, students replay a short clip and list every signal word heard, noting the relationship it signals.
5. Emotion‑Matching (8'): Using transcripts with missing emotion tags, students listen again and insert the correct tags.
6. Check for understanding (5'): Whole‑class discussion of answers, highlighting effective paraphrasing and connection‑mapping.

Recap the four steps—predict, listen for signal words, interpret tone/emotion, and link ideas. Students complete an exit ticket by writing one new connection they noticed in today’s audio. For homework, assign a 2‑minute podcast segment for students to analyse using the same checklist.