what sort of material do you like to use? do you think it works well?
Thanks for your help
Lisahawk
Listening-need your views!
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Listening-need your views!
I am interested in hearing your views on listening tasks within the ESL classroom. Do you enjoy doing listening activities with your students? What is more important - do they enjoy listening tasks?
what sort of material do you like to use? do you think it works well?
Thanks for your help
Lisahawk
what sort of material do you like to use? do you think it works well?
Thanks for your help
Lisahawk
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joshua2004
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For listening skills I mainly use the following:
A few times a week we read an article or have a quiz and I will dictate questions from the article or for the quiz and have students write them down. These questions are similar to Toefl like questions: comprehension, vocabulary, inferring, main idea, phrase usage.
We watch a part of a movie everyday, about 20 mins. After viewing, I ask comprehension questions I wrote while watching the film. I also use TV series like Simpsons.
I make sure to always throw in a question or two to the class when I can. This can be a casual "how is everyone?" to "Why do you think that man on the roof is wearing a costume?" (that didn't really happen, but I would take the opportunity to ask if it did)
We also listen to music. I will play a music video for them and then ask some comprehension questions. Or if I am just listening to a song on a CD player, I will create a cloze worksheet for them to use. This is a work sheet where every line I take out a word and put a blank "______" I always put the words I took out at the bottom of the page so they can see the spelling, and so I don't have to write it up afterwards. If you would like a copy of several cloze worksheets I have, PM me your email address and I will send them. Anybody else can too if they want me to send them.
A few times a week we read an article or have a quiz and I will dictate questions from the article or for the quiz and have students write them down. These questions are similar to Toefl like questions: comprehension, vocabulary, inferring, main idea, phrase usage.
We watch a part of a movie everyday, about 20 mins. After viewing, I ask comprehension questions I wrote while watching the film. I also use TV series like Simpsons.
I make sure to always throw in a question or two to the class when I can. This can be a casual "how is everyone?" to "Why do you think that man on the roof is wearing a costume?" (that didn't really happen, but I would take the opportunity to ask if it did)
We also listen to music. I will play a music video for them and then ask some comprehension questions. Or if I am just listening to a song on a CD player, I will create a cloze worksheet for them to use. This is a work sheet where every line I take out a word and put a blank "______" I always put the words I took out at the bottom of the page so they can see the spelling, and so I don't have to write it up afterwards. If you would like a copy of several cloze worksheets I have, PM me your email address and I will send them. Anybody else can too if they want me to send them.
Thanks for your help, Joshua2004. I suspect your students are lucky enough to have a teacher who makes listening activities enjoyable and a regular feature in class.
I find so many students dont enjoy listening activities, particularly on a cd or cassette where they need to answer questions, for instance. Maybe one of the probs is that the activity is not done often enough...
Lisahawk.
I find so many students dont enjoy listening activities, particularly on a cd or cassette where they need to answer questions, for instance. Maybe one of the probs is that the activity is not done often enough...
Lisahawk.