Students listen for detail and are asked questions for specific words / details. Some are gap fill, others MCQ, others putting a sentence in order. With this last one, sentence structure is also practiced. Students are asked to re-iterate sentences just heard, and place the words in correct sentence formation. Can be used as revision of tense use as well. Task may also be used to introduce future tense with going to.

It is a scene from Ice Age 3 , where Manny the  Mammoth, Diego the Tiger and the two possums are stuck on a bridge, hanging over a huge hole full of skeletons, surrounded by what they think is poisoned gas. The bridge is stuck, and they are trying to hold their breath until it is fixed. One of them accidentally breathes in the gas, and they realize it is just laughing gas. They can't stop laughing, and make fun of the most serious things, including dying laughing just like the skeletons below them had.

Ice Age - Laughing Gas Scene

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Let's do English ESL general vocabulary practice. Students listen for detail and are asked questions for specific words / details. Some are gap fill, others MCQ…