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[brento1138]

I have been told I need to teach a TOEFL listening class for advanced high school students twice a week for 2 hours per day.

I have never taught one before, and am unsure of what to do. Has anyone taught this kind of class before? Are there certain textbooks I should get? I assume I'll be playing lots of CDs in class and simply getting them to listen and respond to questions>?

[drydell]

I did that for my first year in a Korean Hagwan. This is how i taught 1 academic lecture listening exercise in a 50 min class......

First I'd read through the listening script (or listen if there was no script in the book) and draw up a list of 20-30 new vocabulary words/phrases/idioms from each listening exercise and give these as homework for the students to learn for the next class.

In the following class the students would feedback the meanings of the vocab for the first 15-20 mins (put the list up on the OHP and use Daum dictionary while in MSWord to also show the Korean meaning) and i'd re-test the class verbally to check they have learnt the words.

Next i'd have prepared about 10 fairly easy comprehension questions based on the listening exercise. Handout to students, listen to lecture once - elicit answers.

Lastly students read through TOEFL questions (more difficult) in the book and re-listen to the lecture. give students answers and explain any mistakes they made. this was for the academic 'lecture' exercise

For the 'conversation' part I did pretty much the same but there isn't so much vocab to cover and takes less time up - squeeze them on the end of the shorter lectures.