How To Article: Ten While-Listening Activities

Title                             : Ten While-Listening Activities

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Topic                           : Education

Details                        : In this article I’m going to describe ten activities that can be used while students are listening to a text. You can using 3 or 4 of the activities below or you might want to mix it up with some of the other activities.

                                    Assuming that the teacher has already for a while listening activity:

1.      Listen for Main Idea

Give your students question. Ask them to circle the topics their hear.

2.      Listen For Details

Ask students to read over the following questions. Let them listen to the audio track two or three times to get the answer.

3.      Making Inferences

Ask students to read over these questions. Let them listen to the audio track to determine the answers.

4.      Correct the errors

Give students the following transcript. Tell them there are five errors, and ask them to correct them as they listen.

5.      Gapfill

Give students the following transcript, and then ask them to fill in the blanks as they listen.

6.      Definitions

Ask students to look at the following list of words and phrase. Play the audio track and ask them to write the words that have the same meaning.

7.      Multiple Choice

Ask students to choose the best answer on multiple choice questions.

8.      Bingo

Bingo is one of the games that can use in listening comprehension. There are some steps to play the games. The first, write these words on the board: grit, female, fantastic, crazy, opposition, relax, collaborate, elected, exam, terribly, moment, wait, absolutely. The second, ask student to create a 4x4 bingo grid on their paper, and choose 16 words from the board to write in the boxes (one word in each box), in any order. Then, instruct students to listen carefully, and put an X on any word they hear. When they have 4 words in a row, they need to shout “BINGO”!

9.      Words From The Board

Write the following phrases in big letters on strips of paper: at the moment, study break, heads of state, leadership qualities, terribly low, engineering project, believe in, both of you. Tape each strip of paper to the board, placing them randomly all over the place. Divide the class into two teams, and ask them to stand a few feet away from the board. Each teams on a different side of the room. Tell them when they hear a phrase, they must rush to grab the strip of paper, and return to their team. At the end, the team with the most strips of paper is the winner.

10.  What’s Next

Play the listening track and stop the recording in the middle of a sentence. Ask students to predict which word comes next. Then continue. Repeat several times, allowing students a few second to response.