A SEMI-DETAILED LESSON PLAN IN LISTENING

Intended for Grade 9

I. OBJECTIVES
At the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
a. differentiate discriminative listening from comprehensive listening;
b. discriminate by listening to various sounds produced by people;
c. explain the thoughts, ideas and message of the song listened to

II. SUBJECT MATTER

A. Topic: Types of Listening: Discriminative and Comprehensive

B. Reference: Cornelius, J., Francis, C., et al. 1971. English Arts and Skills. The
Macmillan Company. Collier-Macmillan Canada Ltd., Ontario.
https://tcagley.wordpress.com/tag/discriminative-listening/
C. Materials: PowerPoint Presentation, Audio track

III. PROCEDURE

A. Preliminary Activities

 Greetings
 Prayer
 Classroom Management
 Checking of Attendance

B. Motivation
Three pairs of students will have to say the words “I love you” in different tone or
expressions. The remaining students will have to figure out the relationship between
the meaning they associate with the sounds or inflection of voice used.

Angry

Laughing
Hesitating

“I love you”

Crying Shouting
C. Lesson Proper

a. Presentation of the Lesson

The teacher will start the lesson by connecting the activity to the topic that
will be discussed.

b. Discussion Proper

Discriminative listening is the most basic form of listening and does not
involve the understanding of the meaning of words or phrases but merely the
different sounds that are produced.

In discriminative listening, difference between different sounds is identified.

If you cannot hear differences, then you cannot make sense of the meaning
that is expressed by such differences.

We learn to discriminate between sounds within our own language early, and
later are unable to discriminate between the phonemes of other languages.

Comprehensive listening is the interpretation of the words and ideas. It

involves understanding the thoughts, ideas, and message.

This type of listening requires that the listener understands the language and
vocabulary.

Comprehensive listening builds on discriminative learning. If you can’t

understand the sound, you will not be able to interpret language. Mismatches
in vocabulary can disrupt comprehension.

c. Listening Activities

Activity 1
The teacher will play a song. The students will have to listen closely to the song.
Direction: While listening, you will write the lyrics of the song with the least
number of missed or wrong words as possible. Afterwards, check your lyrics with
your teacher’s.

The teacher will ask the students:

-Did you have difficulty in getting the correct lyrics of the song? Why? or Why
not?
 (Oftentimes, a person from one country finds it difficult to understand another
language perfectly, as they are unable to distinguish the subtle sounds that are
required in that language.

Activity 2

The teacher will play a song again, but this time, the students will just listen and
understand the thoughts, ideas and message of the song.

IV. EVALUATION

On a ½ sheet of paper, write the difference between discriminative and

comprehensive listening.

V. ASSIGNMENT

Research and study the other Types of Listening.

Prepared by:
Abayon, Shahaiah Kesh, D.
III - English