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[BS.Dos.]

So I'm gearing up for the big Summer offensive and I've been thinking about listening exercises in Korean classrooms and whether I should start sourcing some useful material.

Just wanted to know how often you incorporate them into your lessons and whether you make your own or lift them straight out of the books you teach from.

Any comments regarding listening exercises in the PS context would be appreciatos muchos.

[lastat06513]

Very easy.

Find a book that has audio-recorded dialogue in it. Photo copy the dialogue and use white-out to take out words from the dialogue and replace them with blanks (depending on the level of the students you are teaching, that will determine the amount of blanks you will have and the words you will choose to leave blank.
Then play the dialogue several times so the students can hear it and fill in the blanks.
I have also found that group discussion is more comfortable than having the students review on their own and give the students more confidence in themselves, so seperate the students into groups and let them take a few minutes to review the missing words together.
Depending on the age of your students, you can either recite the whole dialogue together as a class or select students to recite the dialogue.
But at the very end, you will recite the dialogue with the whole class to guarantee comprehension (you can do that before or after listening to the dialogue one last time).

A rule of thumb would be to choose the words or parts of speech that the student will be learning for that particular day as to give some relevence to the lesson.

[shantaram]

If you want to avoid making dozens of photocopies, do a true/false quiz with them. Tell them to write x/o on either side of a piece of paper and hold it up after you've read the question- or break them into groups and give them a minute to discuss whether the statement is true or false before answering as a group. It's good as a good warm-up, or you can use it for the entire lesson.

[Yu_Bum_suk]

I find it best to use listening excercises as a small compentent of a larger lesson. There are dozens of ways you can do it, from using a CD in the back of an EFL book to having two of the better students read a dialogue and having the students answer questions about it. I wouldn't make it try to last a 45- or 50-minute lesson, however. That's just too long to be focused on any one thing for teenagers.