4 Havo listening - Tall Tales

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 4

What's a tall tale?
Do regard this lying?

What do you know about lying?
Which words do you think of?
What reading/listening strategy are you using now?

When would you tell a (white) lie?

Tall Tales 

Objectives:

• improve listening skills by using strategies
• improve reading skills by using strategies 
• learn and expand your vocabulary of lying 

Improving listening

1. Timetable regular practice

2. Expand your range (from short to longer)

3. Practice in chunks (2 minutes first, understood? > move on)
4. Repeat practice (Eat, sleep, listen, repeat). 

Listening skills (before listening)

1. read and listen to the instructions!
2. unerline key words in the question(s). Usually nouns and verbs.
3. Try to understand the context. What will the speakers be talking about.

4. Read and listen to the examples given at each part, this will show you HOW to answer the question.

5. Try to predict the answer.

Listening skills (while listening)

1. don't worry, understanding the main idea is often enough!

2. if you hear the recordings twice, do not worry you miss one or two questions. 

3. Try to carefully listen to the recording the first time to help you understand the context and check for answers the second time.

4. when you move on to the next question forget the previous one. 

5. CHECK BEFORE HANDING IN AND DO NOT LEAVE EMPTY SPACES ON YOUR ANSWER SHEET!

Assignment

Read the questions, then watch the video about Belle Gibson (a fraudster mentioned in the

article Tall Tales) and write down the answers to the questions. Of course, you can pause and rewind when necessary. After watching the video, answer the questions in this lessonup.

1 What is Belle’s ‘inspiring story’ that turned out to be a hoax?

2 The journalist, Tara Brown, introduces the interview by saying ‘One problem remains’. What is that problem?

3 What social media platform did Belle use to tell her story in 2013?

4 According to the story, when had Belle gotten the bad news that she was ill?

5 Belle keeps claiming that she never intentionally lied. How does she explain that she wrote things that turned out not to be true?

6 How did Belle misrepresent the truth in the preface of her cookbook? What is her revised story?

7 Where does Belle live?

Assignment + strategy

A.  Determine focus word per question 

B . Prefab answer (repeat question) 

C. Predict and activate your prior knowledge 

1 What is Belle’s ‘inspiring story’ that turned out to be a hoax?

                    Prefab: Belle’s ‘inspiring story’  was ....... 

2 The journalist, Tara Brown, introduces the interview by saying ‘One problem remains’. What is that problem?

3 What social media platform did Belle use to tell her story in 2013?          twitter, facebook, insta

4 According to the story, when had Belle gotten the bad news that she was ill? focus on a time 

5 Belle keeps claiming that she never intentionally lied. How does she explain that she wrote things that turned out not to be true?

6 How did Belle misrepresent the truth in the preface of her cookbook? What is her revised story?

7 Where does Belle live?

1 What is Belle’s ‘inspiring story’ that turned out to be a hoax?

2 The journalist, Tara Brown, introduces the interview by saying ‘One problem remains’. What is that problem?

3 What social media platform did Belle use to tell her story in 2013?

5 Belle keeps claiming that she never intentionally lied. How does she explain that she wrote things that turned out not to be true?

4 According to the story, when had Belle gotten the bad news that she was ill?

6 How did Belle misrepresent the truth in the preface of her cookbook? What is her revised story?

7 Where does Belle live?

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