Lesson Plan

• Identify ideas, opinions, and attitudes in listening texts.
• Analyse how opinions and attitudes influence the interpretation of ideas.
• Create comparative tables linking ideas, opinions, and attitudes from different sources.
• Summarise listening extracts using appropriate academic language.
• Reflect on the relationship between attitudes and proposed solutions.

• Audio recordings (radio news, podcasts, family interview clips)
• Projector and speakers
• Worksheets with comparison tables
• Whiteboard and markers
• Handouts of key vocabulary (ideas, opinions, attitudes)

Begin with a short audio clip that sparks curiosity about environmental issues. Ask learners what they already know about how opinions shape news reporting. Explain that today they will identify ideas, opinions, and attitudes and see how they connect.

1. Do‑now (5'): Students write down any ideas, opinions, attitudes heard in a 1‑minute news excerpt.
2. Guided listening – first pass (10'): Play a radio news segment; students note general ideas only.
3. Guided listening – second pass (10'): Replay the same segment; students highlight words indicating opinions and attitudes.
4. Summarising (8'): In pairs, write a brief summary of the segment, distinguishing ideas, opinions, attitudes.
5. Comparative table activity (12'): Using a worksheet, fill a table comparing the radio clip with a podcast excerpt on education.
6. Group discussion (10'): Groups discuss how attitudes affect the acceptance of ideas; teacher circulates and probes.
7. Quick check (5'): Exit ticket – one sentence describing the link between an attitude and an idea from today’s lesson.

Recap the steps used to separate ideas, opinions, and attitudes and how they interrelate. Students complete an exit ticket stating one connection they discovered. Assign homework to listen to a chosen broadcast and produce a similar comparison table.