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[519forlife]

I teach in the public system and I want to do some listening exercises, what do you guys do? Music? Can you download some short conversations or stories, or do you just read to them? How do you handle the listening thing? Also on a side note how is the disipline in your class, I let the K-teacher handle it, but they are crazy slck, kids basically do whatever, I don't give a shit cause I know they won't learn shit anyways and I still get paid. I want the listen exercises to kill time.

[passport220]

I use a song by Dido "White Flag". I include the following handout. The singer sings the words clearly and it has worked well so far. If you are interested let me know and I will send you the worksheet in MS Word format. I also have a copy of the song cut down to drop the intro music. Let me know your e-mail addy and I will send them to you.


- I give them instructions to fill in the blanks and I play the song once.
- I then explain the word �Surrender� and the phrases �I will go down with this ship� and �I will hold my tongue�.
- I play the song a second time.
- I then go through the song and have the students tell me the words needed to fill in the blanks. I write the words on the board.
- I play the song a third time.

I added the poem at the end of page two to extend the pronunciation exercise.

I am very friendly with my kids. I don't care so much what they do in class as long as they are not disturbing anyone else. If they get out of hand and won't sit down and shut up....I kick them out. I don't show anyone that it upsets me...but it is firm "Get up!" "Get out" problem solved. I let the Korean teacher figure out what to do with them from there.

Take care

<Side 1 of handout>
1. Listen to the song and fill in the blanks. The first letter is given.
DIDO
"White Flag"

I know you t________ that I shouldn't still love you,
Or tell you that.
But if I didn't say it, well I'd still have f________ it
where's the sense in that?

I p__________ I'm not trying to make your life harder
Or return to where we were

I will go down with this s______
And I won't put my hands up and surrender
There will be no white f________ above my door
I'm in love and always will be

I know I left too much mess and
destruction to c_______ b________ again
And I caused nothing but t__________
I understand if you can't t_______ to me again
And if you live by the rules of "it's over"
then I'm sure that that makes sense

I will go down with this ship
And I won't put my hands up and surrender
There will be no white flag above my door
I'm in love and always will be

And when we meet
Which I'm s_________ we will
All that was there
Will be there still
I'll let it p_________
And hold my t__________
And you will think
That I've m__________ on....

I will go down with this ship
And I won't put my hands up and surrender
There will be no white flag above my door
I'm in love and always will be

I will go down with this ship
And I won't put my hands up and surrender
There will be no white flag above my door
I'm in love and always will be

___________________________________
<Side two of handout>
2.Practise Pronunciation with the following words by repeating them over and over again:
white - nothing - hands - down

3. Practise Pronunciation of phoneme /�/ with the following words by repeating them over and over again:

sad - glad - happiness
4. Practise Pronunciation of phoneme /i:/ with the following words by repeating them over and over again:

see - feel - dream - believed - seems - people - me

5. Explain difficult vocabulary and difficult expressions such as:
"I will go down with this ship "

________________________________________________________
With A Friend
1. I can talk with a friend
2. and walk with a friend
3. and share my umbrella in the rain
4. I can play with a friend
5. and stay with a friend
6. and learn with a friend
7. and explain
8. I can eat with a friend
9. and compete with a friend
10. and even sometimes disagree
11. I can ride with a friend
12. and take pride with a friend
13. A friend can mean so much to me!

[Yu_Bum_suk]

Yeah, if you don't care and just want to kill time use songs. Songs need not necessarily be a waste of time at all, but given your attitude I'm sure you could find a way to make them so.