five fun activities to build listening skills
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Can listening activities be fun and motivating? These slides look at listening in the EFL classroom and outline five fun and easy-to-use activities to help EFL learners build listening skills in an enjoyable and exciting way. Material from the e-future texts Listen Up and Listen Up Plus are used in the slides. These slides are from a presentation delivered at KOTESOL in Seoul on October 12th, 2013.TRANSCRIPT
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Five Fun Activities to Build Listening Skills
Gabriel Allison
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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
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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
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What are the differ-ent ways we com-
municate?
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Audience Quiz!
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Areas of Study
Reading
Listening
Speaking
Writing
45%
30%16%
9%
(Burely-Allen, 1995)
Percentage of daily communication…
3rd
4th
2nd
1st
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What’s this guy’s problem?
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BAD LISTENING SKILLS!!!
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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?
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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
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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)
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More?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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1. Listening Cloze
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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
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CD 1, Track 2
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2. Get in Order
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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
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CD 1, Track 10
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3. What’s Wrong with the Picture?
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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
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4. Running Dic-tation
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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
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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.
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5. Listening Journals
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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
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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:
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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
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