Five Fun Activities to Build Listening Skills

Gabriel Allison

What are we going to do?

1.Warm Up

2.What Makes Listening Difficult

3.Success for Students and Teach-

ers

4.Five Fun Activities

5.Listen Up Overview

What are we going to do?

1.Warm Up

2.What Makes Listening Difficult

3.Success for Students and Teach-

ers

4.Five Fun Activities

5.Listen Up Lesson Flow

What are the differ-ent ways we com-

municate?

Audience Quiz!

Areas of Study

Reading

Listening

Speaking

Writing

45%

30%16%

9%

(Burely-Allen, 1995)

Percentage of daily communication…

3rd

4th

2nd

1st

What’s this guy’s problem?

BAD LISTENING SKILLS!!!

What are your approaches?

1. What kind of listening ac-tivities do you do with your Ss?

2. How are your Ss perform-ing?

3. Do you have any tips to share?

What are we going to do?

1.Warm Up

2.What Makes Listening Difficult

3.Success for Students and Teach-

ers

4.Five Fun Activities

5.Listen Up Overview

Five Things to Consider When Choosing Listening Material:

1. Number of Speakers

2. Distinctness of Voices

3. Order of Events

4. Inference’s Needed

5. Listener’s Subject Knowledge(Brown, 1995)

More?

What are we going to do?

1.Warm Up

2.What Makes Listening Difficult

3.Success for Students and Teach-

ers

4.Five Fun Activities

5.Listen Up Overview

Student SuccessStudents need to….

(1) have an idea what the topic will be

(2) know something about the topic

(3) predict things that will be said

(4) know key words & phrases used

Teacher SuccessTeachers need to….

(1) activate Ss’ background knowledge

(2) prepare Ss’ for listening content

(3) build up Ss’ listening skills

(4) assess Ss’ progress

What are we going to do?

1.Warm Up

2.What Makes Listening Difficult

3.Success for Students and Teach-

ers

4.Five Fun Activities

5.Listen Up Overview

1. Listening Cloze

1. Select a listening passage2. Choose some key words to delete3. Rules:- Teacher: passes out modified script- Students: make notes and work together- Students: guess the missing words- Teacher: play the dialogue

CD 1, Track 2

2. Get in Order

1. Cut up a listening script.2. Tape it to the backs of students. 3. Explain the rules:- Students: help each other to read - Teacher: plays the dialogue once- Students: listen for their portion- Students: get in correct order- Students: grab script from back -Teacher: plays the dialogue again- Students: listen and check

CD 1, Track 10

3. What’s Wrong with the Picture?

1. Select an image from the book. 2. Change key words 3. Write down the modified script3. Pair or group students4. Explain the rules:- Students: listen & look- Students: make notes -Teacher: reviews the differences-5. Have students lead the activity

4. Running Dic-tation

1. Put students in pairs: A & B2. Gather students at one end of the room3. Put listening script at opposite endThe listening script should be small4. Explain the rules: -Student A : Run, read, run back to partner-Student A: Dictate what they remember-Student B: listen and write-Continue until dictated correctly

Blue Team

Red Team

1. Jenny is going to the playground. 2. Harry is going to the restaurant. 3. Tony is going to the supermarket. 4. Lisa is going to the bookstore. 5. Mike is going to the post office.

1. Lisa is going to the bookstore. 2. Tony is going to the supermarket.3. Mike is going to the post office. 4. Jenny is going to the playground.5. Harry is going to the restaurant.

5. Listening Journals

1. Students: listen to things out of class(TV, radio, music, conversations, sounds, etc.)2. Students: write a few things about it3. Keep notes in a journaloptional- Students post recordings on class blog- Students bring recordings to class

Gabe’s

Listening

Portfolio

Listening Journal

1. What did you listen to? English song. Justin Bieber. “Baby”

2. Where did you listen to it?

At home. On the internet: YouTube.com

3. Was it easy/difficult?Some parts easy. Some parts difficult.

4. New words/phrasesshout, cool, dream, baby (?)

Example:

What are we going to do?

1.Warm Up

2.What Makes Listening Difficult

3.Success for Students and Teach-

ers

4.Five Fun Activities

5.Listen Up Overview

• Perfect for Young Learners• Built-in recycling of language• Short, achievable lessons• Practical topics • 4 Review Lessons per book• Dictation Book

Fun and

Easy Listen-

ing Prac-tice!

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