Texas
Adult Education Standards and Benchmarks
for ABE ASE and ESL Learners
Lesson Plan Bank
esl LESSON PLANS
Texas Adult Education Standards
Lesson Plan
Before you begin
Title: Tuning In
Setting: ESL
NRS Level(s): Level 2: Low Beginning
Open entry/exit: No
Context: Community
Standard(s): Listen actively
Benchmark(s): 1.2, 2.2
Objective: The students will: 1) become aware of English radio stations in their community; and 2) become exposed to various genre of American music.
Materials: Radio, music journal
Estimated time needed to prepare for this lesson plan: 15 minutes
Estimated time needed to complete this lesson plan: 1 hour
The Lesson Plan
Introduce the lesson:
Have the students survey each other. “What station do you listen
to?” and develop a class graph of how many students listen to which
radio stations.
Teach the lesson:
Turn on a radio, identify call numbers, and listen for styles-genre of
music record stations.
Practice the lesson:
Listen to a song on the radio. Have the students work as a group and
have them call out vocabulary they hear and are familiar with.
Assess the lesson:
Have the students write down the new words and unfamiliar words that
they heard on the radio.
Apply the lesson to the real world:
Have each student chose a radio station and keep track of new and unfamiliar
words by writing them in a journal.
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