Where Are My Bananas

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Where Are My Bananas?

• Group Members
• Louisa Tina
• Mandy Stella

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Outline

• Where Are My Bananas? (Story)
• This Course Focuses on Listening
• Our Lesson Plan
• Explanations of Each Step

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The Story

• The farmer has lots of fruit. There are lots of
  oranges, bananas and papayas. He is very happy.
  Something is wrong. There arent many bananas in
  the box. Where are all my bananas? he thinks.
  He goes to look for the other bananas, but he
  cant find them. Now there arent any bananas in
  the box! The farmer is very angry. He looks in
  the tree. There is a monkey eating his bananas!

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This Course Focuses on Listening (I)

• I. Introduction
• Listening is very important, but many people
  tend to believe the listening competence will be
  increased with exposure. It is totally wrong.
  Leaner must comprehend whatever they hear to
  ensure production. In order to enhance
  competence, we apply picture, pantomime, and
  realia step by step.

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This Course Focuses on Listening (II)

• II. Objective
• To enhance communication in real world, learners
  should learn to succeed in real-life listening
  situation and comprehend in a variety of
  situation, such as story and Broadcasting - ICRT
  (weather Forecasts)

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This Course Focuses on Listening (III)

• III. Activities
• 1. For child Story (Lesson Plan)
• 2. For adult ICRT (Weather Forecasts Current
  Air Quality Report)
• Key words
• (1) Location
• CITY Taipei, Kaoshiung, Keelung North Coast
• Area Taipei, Taoyuan, HisChu, Miaoli, Taichung,
  ChangHua, Nantu, Yunlin,
• Chiayi, Tainan, Kaohsiung, Pingtung,
  Hengchun Peninsula
• (2) Sky Condition
• Sunny
• Rainy, Occasional Rains
• Cloudy, Partly Cloudy, Mostly Cloudy
• Shower, Thundershower, Afternoon Shower
• (3) Quality
• Good, Moderate and Not available

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Lesson Plan (Description of the Class)

• For our sixth grade English class, this course is
  designed to let the student to listen to the tape
  of a story Where Are My Bananas? twice at
  normal speed. Then, the students compile the
  whole story by different games. At the end of the
  class, each student has to write his one-page
  essay.

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Lesson Plan (Outcomes)

• Outcomes
• Students are interested in the lecture because
  they want to win (award). Students will listen to
  the tape carefully and be able to draw out the
  meaning of the story. Listening to the tape two
  times, students will become familiar with the
  native accent, stability speech, pitch,
  intonation and content. Ensuring students
  comprehends 100 .

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Lesson Plan (Teaching Principle)

• Teaching Principle
• No overt response.

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Lesson Plan (Materials)

• Materials
• A Tape Recorder
• One Tape
• Pictures
• Flashcards
• Sentence Cards
• Award

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Lesson Plan (Process 12)

• Process
• Step 1 Warm up
• Tell students the countable nouns and
  uncountable nouns that appear in the story.
• Countable nouns farmer, box, oranges,
  bananas, papayas, tree, and
  monkey
• Uncountable noun fruit.
• Do some question-and-answer drill.
• Step 2 Listen to the tape once and play story
  puzzle game.

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Lesson Plan (Process 34)

• Step 3
• Divide the class into tow groups, give each group
  a set of sentence cards. Then, compile the whole
  story on the blackboard.
• Step 4
• Listen to the tape again and have students pay
  attention to the correct answer.

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Lesson Plan (Process 5)

• Step 5
• The teacher reads each line and students repeat
  after her. The teacher explains each line with
  some actions while each line is read. For
  example, when the teacher reads, The farmer has
  lots of fruit, she can make a big circle with
  her arms and pretends she has lots of fruit.
  Encourage students to follow her reading. Make
  sure each paragraph is clearly explained before
  proceeding to the next one. Using the pictures on
  this reading page to help students to understand
  the passage better.

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Lesson Plan (Process 6)

• Step 6
• Play read aloud and fast sentence game. Still
  have the same two groups and assign each student
  responsible for one sentence. When teacher read
  one of ten sentences once, the students who
  responsible for the sentence will read it aloud
  and fast, the student read aloud and fast will
  win the game and get positive reinforcement.

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Explanations of Each Step

• Step 1
• Step 2 Step 3
• Step 4
• Step 5
• Step 6

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Step 1

• Step 1 Warm up
• Tell students the countable nouns and
  uncountable nouns that appear in the story.
• Countable nouns farmer, box, oranges, bananas,
  papayas, tree, and monkey
• Uncountable noun fruit.
• Do some question-and answer drills.
• Aims
• The teacher gives students a chance to get
  familiar with new vocabulary. (How to Teach
  English p102)
• Grammar work can also be taught through
  listening. (How to Teach English p102)
• Teachers should try their best to get students
  Engaged with the topic and task so that they
  really want to listen. The students will need to
  look at pictures, discuss the topic before they
  listen to the tape. (How to Teach English p100)
• Back

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Step 2 Step 3

• Step 2 Listen to the tape once and play story
  puzzle game.
• Step 3 Divide the class into tow groups, give
  each group a set of sentence cards.
• Then, compile the whole story on the
  blackboard.
• Aims
• The first task has allowed students to listen to
  the tapes with only a very general task to
  perform. (How to Teach English p101)
• Back

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Step 4

• Step 4 Listen to the tape again and have
  students pay attention to the correct answer.
• Aims
• Once will not be enough. Students will want to
  hear the tape again to pick up the thins they
  missed the first time. (How to Teach English
  p100)
• Back

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Step 5

• Step5 The teacher reads each line and students
  repeat after her. The teacher
• explains each line with some actions while each
  line is read. For example,
• when the teacher reads, The farmer has lots of
  fruit, she can make a big
• circle with her arms and pretends she has lots of
  fruit. Encourage students to
• follow her reading. Make sure each paragraph is
  clearly explained before
• proceeding to the next one. Using the pictures on
  this reading page to help
• students to understand the passage better.
• Aims
• The most important part of listening practice is
  to draw out the meaning of the content. (How to
  Teach English p100)
• Back

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Step 6

• Play read aloud and fast sentence game. Still
  have the same two groups and
• assign each student responsible for one sentence.
  When teacher read one of
• ten sentences once, the students who responsible
  for the sentence will read it
• aloud and fast, the student read aloud and fast
  will win the game and get the
• award.
• Aims
• Through the game, students have a chance to
  practice listening again and also have a chance
  to pronounce these sentences.
• Back

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Reference

• Harmer, J. (1998). How to Teach English. Essex,
  England Longman.