Alright today, we have a super fun activity for you. It is a listening and speaking activity. That's coming up.
So today's lesson, which is more of an activity, is going to help you guys practice your listening and speaking skills.
So what I have for you is I have two different stories
And what we'll do is I'm going to read one of the stories
I will read it two times
You will need to listen to the story and try to remember as many details as you can.
After I read it twice, then I want you to pause the video and try to say it back
and practice your speaking skills and see what you remember.
In order to help you remember,
I'm going to put some clues up on the screen that you can use
to try to remember those details and say them out loud when you repeat it.
so I'm going to say the story twice and a helpful hint is
As you're listening to these stories, try to put pictures in your mind
Try to to imagine what it is that you are hearing because that's just going to help you remember.
So Ioana is here. She is going to do the activity with you and
listen to the stories as well and then
try to remember the details
So after you guys practice your speaking skills, and try to remember,
You can see if it's the same as Ioana and if she remembers everything about my beautiful stories.
I'm nervous.
Are you ready? I'm nervous because my listening skills are not the best. I'm more of a visual learner.
And these stories are... Well the first one's okay, the first one's normal... The other one's maybe a little weird.
Ok, I'm excited kind of.
The first story is a little... it's a little longer, but I think it's It's okay.
There's not as many... there's not too many details in it. Okay, so
This is just the story again not about any person, but alright ready. Mm-hm. I
All right, you got that
Again, all right, you guys got all that ready? Here we go. I
Okay, alright
So I feel like this this could be a little easy for you because I feel like you can make some connections to some
of the stuff that was being
mentioned
All right.
so now what I want you guys to do is
to pause the video and use these clues that you see up on the screen to
Remember the story and try to repeat it
And say as much as you can. Alright?
Now that you have said the story and used those details,
let's see how much Ioana remembers from this story. So...
I feel like I forgot the middle
All right the details, okay. Are you ready? Mm-hmm?
So your story is about the summer time you're saying that you love the summer time
And your favorite activity in the summer time is running along the beach
And after that in the after that you come have a breakfast of toast and fruit and eggs
whilst you read the newspaper
Which is you like reading about politics
Now the errands that you do ... that's the tricky part. The errands I thought were going to the
Library and the farmers market, I think
And something about going
by the Golden Gate Park
I'm very bad at this
and at the end oh
and then at the end you were talking about how you have a lot of free time in the summer because
You are a teacher
where you teach children, I
mean you'll come back to your teaching job in the fall ... teaching children.
Yeah, this little inference at the end is
Well yea- like the I went running along the beach running alongside the beach in the morning
yeah, you got it: eating eggs and toast and fruit for breakfast and
Local politics
Local politics in which city in San Francisco? Yeah, Golden Gate Park. Yeah
And I go walk through Golden Gate Park on the way back home in the afternoon. That's what I missed. Yeah
Yeah, but that was pretty good... cause that was a little bit of a longer story. So hope you guys got all of that as well.
That was good. Good job. Thank you.
Now here is the second story which is a lot weirder, so
Hopefully try to try to follow along as best as you can,
Listen for the details and again try to create a picture in your mind. That might help you remember some of this.
It does help. Are you ready? Okay, so here is my second story.
All right ready?
What image are you gonna put for this story?
I don't know. I don't know...
Use those images. I try, but... I'll read it one more time. This is a true story
Ready?
Okay. All right, so
Hopefully you can remember some of that weird crazy dream and now I want you to pause the video
Use the details that are up there to try and retell the story with as many details as you can. Alright?
I hope you guys were able to remember some of those details, remember some of that weird information,
and now we're gonna see how much Ioana remembers using some of these clues.
And the clues aren't super detailed, but hopefully... Are you ready?
Yes. Here you go. Thank you.
So Wes had a dream that he lived in Brazil
and his job was as an uber driver and he picked up a passenger with
with a purple and pink ski mask and
He took him to the zoo
The first animal he saw there, oh he fed he fed sushi to a polar bear and
Then he helped a giraffe with
algebra homework and then
The last animal he saw was a gorilla- an 800-pound gorilla who
wanted to go to the bank to take out money
because he had surgery: a LASIK eye surgery, and before they got into the bank he woke up I think.
Well done, well done, that was pretty much exactly the story.
Hopefully you guys did as well as Ioana, and if you did this practice, I want to know!
So in the comments, write SPEAKING
which then tells me that you paused the video, and you are actually practicing your speaking skills.
because I know you were practicing your listening if you're just watching this video.
If you enjoyed this listening and speaking activity, please hit that like button down below
and as always, thanks so much for watching and we'll see you guys next time. Bye.
Bye!