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History of Drinks Lesson Plan

Warm-Up (15 minutes)• Dictate the following questions:

- What have you drunk so far today?

- What did you drink yesterday?

- What are the healthiest drinks you know?

- And the least healthy?

- Are there any drinks that are popular in your country, but difficult to find

anywhere else?

• Students discuss the questions in groups of three.

Introducing Listening for Detail (2 minutes) Write ‘Listening for Detail’ on the board, and ask students to imagine that they are at a station,

they want to get to London, and they don’t know what platform to go to. They then hear a

muffled announcement which sounds like ‘Blah blah blah…London…blah blah…platform

three… blah blah blah’. Point out that, because you have a question in mind when you

begin listening, even if you don’t understand every word you can still extract the important

information. This is called ‘listening for detail’.

Listening: Drinks Quiz (30 minutes)• Tell the class that they are going to do some listening for detail, on the topic of drinks. First, they

are going to do some speaking in groups.

• Go through the quiz activity entitled A History of Drinks Quiz , in which learners do an ordering

activity, then check their answers by listening to a text that is read aloud in class. N.B. This quiz

activity has its own teacher’s notes.

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Learning Objectives: To practise listening for Preparation Time: 5 minutes

detail; note-taking; speaking and sharing ideas and Completion Time: 60 minutes

opinions related to drinks. Age/Level: Adult/Intermediate–High

Skill: Listening Intermediate

Resources: A History of Drinks Quiz,

pens, paper, a whiteboard and pens

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History of Drinks Lesson Plan

Key: 1 wine, approx. 6000 BC1= beer, approx. 6000 BC3 tea, approx. 2000 BC4 Chinese rice wine, 8th Century BC5 Japanese sake, 3rd Century AD6 coffee, 9th Century AD7 whisky, 14058 tequila, 16th Century9 Coca-Cola, 188510 7up, 192011 smoothies, the 1930s.

Personal Response to the Listening (10 minutes)• Dictate the following questions:

- What facts in the listening activity surprised you most?

- Which of the drinks from the listening activity do you drink?

- Which of the drinks from the listening activity are popular in your country?

- Are there any other popular drinks in your country that were not in the speaking

activity?

• Regroup students into new threes to discuss the questions.

Closure (3 minutes)• Read the following sentences. Students stand up if they think it’s true; sit down if they

think it’s false.

- Tea is the oldest drink in the world.

- Coffee originally came from Africa.

- When you are listening and trying to find a piece of information, quite often you

don’t need to understand every word you hear.

KEY: false; true; true.

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