TELPAS Review - Listening and Speaking

​Review
Listening and Speaking

By Ruben Salinas

Think about a time you had to make a difficult decision.

1. What was it?
2. Why was it difficult?

Turn to your 'shoulder partner' and share for one minute.

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Warm-Up

Lesson Objective - TELPAS

In this lesson, you will use your English language skills in several ways. You will listen to a story to find the main idea and important details. You will discuss your ideas and opinions with a partner. You will explain your own opinion and your reasons for it in a clear oral recording. Finally, you will provide feedback to another student.

​Language Objective

As a student, you will apply your TELPAS-related listening skills by identifying the main points and important details from a spoken story. You will then demonstrate your TELPAS-related speaking skills by recording a clear oral response that explains your opinion on a related topic and supports it with at least two distinct reasons.

​Content Objective

Essential Question

Why are listening and speaking skills, like the ones we practice for TELPAS, essential for clearly sharing our ideas and successfully working with others?

Multiple Choice

According to this section, why does Josh want to play soccer at school this year instead of tennis?

• He is much better at soccer than tennis.

• He is frustrated because he rarely beats Dad at tennis.

• He only wants to play tennis if he can be on the varsity team.

• He likes the idea of playing a team sport.

Multiple Choice

How does Mom react to what Josh says in this section?

• She encourages Josh to talk to Dad.

• She becomes impatient with Josh.

• She tells Josh that she is dissapointed.

• She agrees to share the news with dad.

Multiple Choice

In this section, the narrator says, "A week went by before Josh summoned the courage to broach the subject." What does broach mean?

• Change

• Mention

• Accept

• Remember

Multiple Choice

Read or listen to what Josh says in this section.

"Dad, tennis is your game."

What can the listener conclude from this sentence?

• Josh worries that Dad will always be a better tennis player than he is.

• Josh sees that he and Dad are interested in different sports.

• Josh hopes Dad will help coach the varsity team at school this year.

• Josh wants Dad to continue teaching him new athletic skills.

Multiple Choice

In this section, Dad's opinion about what Josh wants to do changes. What causes this change?

• Dad recalls his own experiences with his father in high school.

• Mom explains to Dad that he needs to be more supportive of Josh.

• Dad is afraid that Josh will not want to play tennis with him anymore.

• Josh agrees that Dad would not have been a good football player.

Cooperative Group Work

Protocol: Clock Partners

Quickly get together with your 3 o'clock partner and work on the assignment together.

In this story, a boy needs to decide which team sport to play at his high school.

• First, describe some of the team sports that students at your high school play.

• Next, explain why you think high schools should, or should not, have team sports. Give at least two reasons for your opinion.

With your partner:
1. Read the information below
2. Discuss possible answers for both tabs.
3. Write down notes on note catcher.

Home

Open in new tab

Copy link

Go to Vocaroo.com, record your answer (2 minutes or less), copy link of recording, and paste on shared document.

Before you record:
Read your answer aloud
to listen for mistakes
and to practice
saying what you wrote.

​Tip:

​A Difficult Decision Document

Click on the link below to go to shared word document to paste your Vocaroo recording link.

A Difficult Decision.docx

Exit Ticket

Fill out, record, and turn in before you leave.



"Great work today practicing our listening and speaking skills!"