Unit 1: My Favourite Things — Listening & Speaking Lesson
A ready-to-teach presentation with clear AI-generated audio and modern content: predict, listen twice, speak in pairs, and report. Open it and teach.
Listening is the skill many of us skip in Common Core. Sometimes the official audio is too poor to use in a real classroom. Sometimes the content feels old and boring. And sometimes teachers simply aren’t sure how to run a listening lesson.
This Common Core Unit 1 listening and speaking presentation deals with all three. The audio is clear, high-quality and AI-generated, so students can hear it even at the back of a big class, and the content is modern: football stars, TV programmes and cars. Students use what they already studied in previous sessions, like the verb to be and his / her, so the lesson builds confidence instead of adding pressure. The full presentation and audio are available to download below.
Common Core
Unit 1: Myself & Others
Listening & Speaking
PowerPoint + Audio (MP3)
Learning Objectives
By the end of this lesson, students will be able to predict content from pictures, listen for the main idea and for specific details, ask and answer questions about favourite things using the verb to be, and report information about a partner using his / her.
What’s Inside This Presentation
1. Before Listening: Look & Predict
Students look at pictures of sportsmen, TV programmes and cars, and answer warm-up questions like “Who is your favourite football player?”
2. First Listening: Choose the Correct Option
Students listen to Lisa, Jamil and Fred and choose the correct sportsman, TV programme and car. This is the gist task.
3. Second Listening: True or False
Students listen again and decide whether eight sentences are true or false. This is the detail task.
4. Speaking: Ask Your Partner
Pair work with question and answer models for favourite sportsman, TV programme and car. Student A asks, Student B answers, then they swap.
5. Tell Us About Your Partner
Students report three pieces of information to the class, using a sentence model and useful expressions like “He/She likes…” and “He/She enjoys…”
Listen to the Audio
Preview the audio before class to check the volume in your room. The same file is included in the download below.
Delivery Tips
💡 Let Students Compare Before You Check: After each listening, give students a minute to compare answers with their neighbour. Weaker students get a second chance to catch what they missed, and checking goes faster.
💡 Keep Pair Work in the Seats: In a large class with fixed seating, students simply turn to the person next to them. Nobody has to move, and every student gets to speak.
💡 Differentiate the Reporting Task: Leave the sentence model on the board for weaker classes. For stronger classes, ask students to report five pieces of information instead of three.
Frequently Asked Questions
Which textbook is this lesson based on?
It follows the Common Core Outlook textbook, Unit 1: Myself & Others, Listening and Speaking: My Favourite Things. The audio and content are new, but the tasks match the textbook lesson.
Do I need special equipment to play the audio?
No. A phone or laptop with a speaker is enough. The audio is clear and loud enough for a large class.
Is this presentation completely free?
Yes, all downloadable documents and presentations on TeachersMap are freely accessible for instructional use.
Presentation Preview
Preview of the slides — download the full presentation and audio below.
Download the complete listening and speaking lesson.
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