Free time Lesson 3
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Let’s get together
Aims Analysis (+ Access + Activation) Discourse objective Develop the unit topic: socializing in Roman times
Language objectives Expose students to topic vocabulary through reading and listening Review of aspects of adverbs and adverbials
1 Listening and speaking 1a
Have the students look at the picture and elicit what they can see. Remind them to start by saying This is a picture of …, rather than In this picture I can see … Elicit what they know about the Romans and Roman baths. Ask them to speculate on why the Romans liked going to baths. Tell students they are going to listen to a presentation and ask them to speculate what it might be about (Roman baths).
1b
Explain that now they know what the presentation will be about, they can predict some of the words that they might hear. Learner development Predicting words and phrases that may come up in a listening or reading is a good way to focus students’ attention on the task. It also prepares them for some of the things they will hear or read. It is also a way of exposing them to unfamiliar vocabulary. Explain any words that students are unfamiliar with and give them a short time to work in pairs to check the words they think they’ll hear. Play the recording once to see if students chose the right words. ANSWERS: sauna, bathers, fee, cool, exercise, store, libraries, snacks, cleanest
Audioscript Track 31 Announcer: And now it’s time for the next session on the Ancient History course with Dr Mark Stokes. Dr Stokes: In this module, we’re looking at everyday life in ancient Rome. I’ve always thought that modern life is very civilized. We have running water, baths, flush toilets and central heating. Well, it may surprise you to know that the Romans had all these things in their public baths seventeen hundred years ago. Baths were one of the great Roman social institutions. The Romans weren’t the first or only people to build baths but they did it on a much greater scale. By the end of the 4th century C.E.,
Specific skills objectives Develop speaking skills: talking about pictures Develop listening skills: prediction / note-taking Develop reading skills: prediction
there were 11 public baths and 926 private baths in Rome alone. And some of these baths were enormous. Take, for example, the bath of Diocletian, built in 305 C.E. It could accommodate over 3,000 bathers. Can you imagine that? Over 3,000 bathers! Today we might compare the Roman bath to a sports centre. You normally paid a small fee to enter. Inside there were hot, warm, and cool baths. You could also find exercise areas, barbers, shops, restaurants, and even libraries. Baths were places to bathe and talk, do exercise, meet friends, do business, and get the latest news. When people got hungry after exercising and bathing, they could also buy snacks. Since the Roman working day began at sunrise, work was usually over at midday. Men would go to the baths in the afternoon about two o’clock and stay until closing time at sunset. Children were not allowed to go to the public baths. Most Romans tried to visit the baths at least once a day. The Romans were possibly the cleanest people in history!
1c
Put the students into pairs. Play the recording again for them to complete the notes. Remind them that they should only be writing a word or short phrase on the line. You may want to warn them that they will need to listen carefully at the beginning because the first answer comes in a modern, rather than Roman, context. Elicit answers. ANSWERS: 1 saunas, central heating 2 Public 11, Private 926 4 3,000 5 warm, cool 6 exercise areas, shops, libraries 7 exercise, business 8 Men 2 pm to sunset
1d
Ask the students to tell you whether they found the subject interesting. Have them tell you some of the things they learned about Roman baths and whether anything about them surprised them.
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