Intermediate
60 mins
Teacher/Student led
+65 XP

What Next, and How Will I Know?

Listen to harder clips to notice your listening growth. Explore European languages on the board map and set one specific target for next year with a clear way to check your progress.

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    1 - What Do You Want Next Year? ~5 mins

    Next year this school starts teaching one language properly, week by week. Not five languages at once, and not just noticing.

    Here are three things you might be able to do by this time next year:

    • Order a hot chocolate in a café without reading a card
    • Greet a visitor in the language
    • Catch a bit of a cartoon or clip and know which language it is

    Which of those sounds exciting? Keep that thought. Later you will write your own target, after you have listened and looked at the map.

    By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:

    • Notice how much your listening has grown
    • Choose one clear language target for next year
    • Say exactly how you would know you had reached it

    2 - Two Years of Listening ~10 mins

    Before you set a target for next year, measure what your ear can already do. You will hear three clips. They are harder than the ones you met early on.

    Key point

    Listen, choose the language, then show with your thumb: easy now, okay, or still hard.

    3 - Languages on the Map of Europe ~10 mins

    Watch the map of Europe on the board. When your teacher opens a country, say the language you see out loud.

    Think quietly: which one would you most like to start next year, and where could it take you?

    4 - A Target You Can Check ~11 mins

    COPYBOOK MOMENT

    Open your copy. Write one target for next year and, beside it, how you would know you had reached it.

    Use these frames if they help:

    • Next year I want to ___ in ___.
    • I will know I can when ___.

    Or pick one of these cards and make it yours:

    1. Greet someone in the language. Check: I do it once without help.
    2. Spot the language in a cartoon or football clip. Check: I name it correctly three times in a row.
    3. Order a hot chocolate in a café without reading a card. Check: I manage it once without help.
    4. Write five market or food words from memory. Check: I cover the list and still get all five.

    A target of "I will be better" does not count. Make it something you could prove without a test paper.

    5 - Languages We Hear Outside School ~7 mins

    Discussion time

    Some languages live in families, on holidays, in cartoons or songs, and school may never teach them. That does not make them less real.

    • Share the target you wrote. What is the check that proves you reached it?
    • Name one language you hear outside school that we never practised here. What would getting better at it look like?
    Pupil practice
    Module 4 · Strategies That Travel
    Lesson 24 · What Next, and How Will I Know?
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