- •Examples of listening tasks according to stages of listening class
- •Pre-listening activities Association
- •Inspired by words.
- •Inspired by pictures.
- •Eliciting
- •Linking
- •Listing
- •Mind-mapping
- •Predicting
- •Imposing a manner.
- •Prioritising
- •Ranking
- •Categorising
- •Finding Differences / Similarities
- •Matching
- •Paraphrasing
- •Asking/Answering Questions
- •While-listening activities Miming
- •Completing
- •Gap-filling
- •Wilson's Family Table-filling
- •Ranking
- •Reordering
- •Categorising
- •Bill Susan
- •Correction
- •Finding Differences / Similarities
- •Matching
- •Multiple Choice
- •Visual based multiple choice.
- •True / False Statements
- •Dictation
- •Information Transfer
- •Variant 5. Following instructions.
- •Note-taking
- •Labelling
- •Picture completion
- •Outlining
- •Asking/Answering Questions
- •Post-listening activities Dramatizing
- •12:29 Interview
- •Role-play
- •Simulation
- •Invitation.
- •Completing
- •Expanding / Extending
- •Table-filling
- •True / False Statements
- •Interactional true/false.
- •Ranking
- •Finding Differences / Similarities
- •Communicative games
- •Interrupting game.
- •Describing
- •Summary
- •Interview
- •Jig-saw
- •Questionnaire
- •Survey (Opinion Poll)
- •Decision Making
- •Spaghetti with meatballs
- •Discussion
- •Oral Presentation
- •Story telling
- •What happened when the train was in the tunnel?
- •Composition
Wilson's Family Table-filling
Table for listening information.
Students listen to the text and fill in the table. After listening they fill in the information about themselves. Then they go around the class asking their fellow students and making notes in the table.
e.g.
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Bob
Pete
You
Your partner
Gets up
Finishes school
After school
At weekends
Tick what you’ve heard.
Students listen to the text and complete the grid (put ticks in proper spaces according to the text).
e.g.
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ears
tail
legs
nose
Small
√
Big
Long
Short
Black
Brown
Ranking
Ranking frequency.
Students listen to the text and rank the means of transport according to how often they are used by the speaker. After listening they fill in the information about themselves and then go around the class asking two of their classmates and making notes in the table.
e.g.
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means of transport
speaker
you
Pete
Lora
bicycle
train
plane
1
car
3
2
foot
3
bus
1
ship
2
hot-air balloon
9
Helicopter