Stage aim: to lead into the topic of the Main idea questions; to practise identifying the main idea of movies and books. Exercise 1: The sentences in the exercise are taken from various forums where people sometimes challenge each other to describe a movie or a book in one sentence. Encourage the student to share whether they agree with the given descriptions or could suggest better ones. The You can also discuss section: Use "Possible answers" suggested in the first Additional information section after the task to give examples. You might expand the task by allowing the student to describe any book instead of those in the pictures. The Additional information section: Use the second Additional information section to discuss the Progress test results and save them for later reference. Take a look at the pictures. What do you see? Have you watched any of these movies? Which is your favourite one? Now let's try to do the task. Match each sentence to the film it describes Man's chronic insomnia gets out of hand. He doesn't know who you are, but he will kill you. A man haunts a terrified kid. Small IQ. Big Heart. Unconditional Love. Are you sure you aren't dreaming? Patience is everything. Choose one of the books and describe it in one sentence for your teacher to guess. Possible answers Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: A beautiful woman cheats on her husband with a dashing young military man, then after he moves on, throws herself in front of the train. Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling: A teenage magician with a couple of his friends destroys an evil wizard who intends to take over the world. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky: An unstable and self-important young man murders an old woman for kicks, then feels guilty and turns self in. Hamlet by Shakespeare: An angsty Danish prince seemingly goes crazy and kills many people, including his uncle who had killed his father and married his mother. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald: A charming, yet mysterious man tries to win the love of a woman, who spurns him for her rich husband, leading to the man's death. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte: An orphan young woman falls in love with her employer while working as governess to his ward, but it turns out he's got a crazy wife locked in the attic. Results of the Progress test 1 Reading: / 30 Listening: / 30 Writing: / 30 Speaking: / 30 Total: / 120 We are starting a new section of the course in which we will focus on the Listening tasks. We will also continue working on the Speaking tasks. In this lesson we will tackle the difficulties of understanding natural speech, practise identifying the main idea of a listening passage, just like we tried to do it with the movies earlier, and we will learn to answer the Main idea questions of the TOEFL Listening section.

Задание

Stage aim: to lead into the topic of the Main idea questions; to practise identifying the main idea of movies and books.

Exercise 1:

The sentences in the exercise are taken from various forums where people sometimes challenge each other to describe a movie or a book in one sentence.
Encourage the student to share whether they agree with the given descriptions or could suggest better ones.

The You can also discuss section:

Use "Possible answers" suggested in the first Additional information section after the task to give examples.
You might expand the task by allowing the student to describe any book instead of those in the pictures.

The Additional information section:

Use the second Additional information section to discuss the Progress test results and save them for later reference.

Take a look at the pictures. What do you see?

Have you watched any of these movies? Which is your favourite one?

Now let's try to do the task.

Match each sentence to the film it describes

Man's chronic insomnia gets out of hand.
He doesn't know who you are, but he will kill you.
A man haunts a terrified kid.
Small IQ. Big Heart. Unconditional Love.
Are you sure you aren't dreaming?
Patience is everything.

Choose one of the books and describe it in one sentence for your teacher to guess.

Possible answers

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: A beautiful woman cheats on her husband with a dashing young military man, then after he moves on, throws herself in front of the train.
Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling: A teenage magician with a couple of his friends destroys an evil wizard who intends to take over the world.
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky: An unstable and self-important young man murders an old woman for kicks, then feels guilty and turns self in.
Hamlet by Shakespeare: An angsty Danish prince seemingly goes crazy and kills many people, including his uncle who had killed his father and married his mother.
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald: A charming, yet mysterious man tries to win the love of a woman, who spurns him for her rich husband, leading to the man's death.
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte: An orphan young woman falls in love with her employer while working as governess to his ward, but it turns out he's got a crazy wife locked in the attic.

Results of the Progress test 1

Reading:	[ ]/ 30
Listening:	[ ]/ 30
Writing:	[ ]/ 30
Speaking:	[ ]/ 30
Total:	[ ]/ 120

We are starting a new section of the course in which we will focus on the Listening tasks. We will also continue working on the Speaking tasks.

In this lesson we will tackle the difficulties of understanding natural speech, practise identifying the main idea of a listening passage, just like we tried to do it with the movies earlier, and we will learn to answer the Main idea questions of the TOEFL Listening section.

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