How To Article: Ten Post-Listening Activities

Title                             : Ten Post-Listening Activities

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Topic                           : Education

Details                        : After students have done a pre-listening activity and while-listening tasks, and they are ready to move on to something else. There are ten post-listening activities:

1.      Reviewing The Transcript

Teacher gives a copy of transcript to students. Then, ask students to underline any sections of the transcript that they think they understand, and circle any sections which they don’t understand. After that, ask students to make groups of four to discuss the parts that they underlined and circled. At the end, ask students to write on the board any phrase or sentences they still can’t understand.

2.      Quiz Your Classmate

In this activities each student got three post-it notes. Review different types of test questions, such as true or false, multiple choice, short answer, and fill-in-the-blanks. Ask students to make up three quiz questions based on the listening track, and each question should use a different type of question. Students should write one quiz question on each post-it (without the answer). Also, they need to write their names at the bottom of the post-it. When everyone finished writing, they need to circulate and give each post-it to a different student. Then, students try to answer their classmates’ questions, and return to the best creator for a grade.

3.      Quizzing Teams

Make one copy of the transcript and divide it into two pairs. In class separate the class into two teams. Give each team one part of the transcript. One team gets the first half, and the other team gets the second half. Each team have 15 minutes to came up with 5 very different questions to ask the other team.

Each team should be sit in different areas, and can’t see the other teams’ transcript. When time’s up, get the teams to take turns reading out their questions and letting the other team guess the answer. Each team gets 1 point for each correct answer.

4.      What Do You Recall

Put students into pairs. Ask them to take turns recalling one bit of information from the listening without repeating anything. Challenge students to continue as long as possible.

5.      Discussion

Ask students to compose 3 discussion questions based on the topics that came up during the listening. After students have been writing circulate and make suggestions on how they can improve their questions. Latter, choose a few students to write their best questions on the board. Put students into groups of 3 or 4 to discuss the questions.

6.      Revising The Dialogue

Ask student to make a small groups. Give each group a copy of the transcript. Ask them to change the dialogue in one of the following ways. After that, ask them to write their changes on the transcript and practice it.

7.      A Gift

8.      Dictogloss

In this activities teacher read a short section of the dialogue and ask students to listen. Read the following at a normal speech rate. Then tell students to write down just the key words. Put students into groups of 4, and ask them to write what they heard. When the class is finished ask them to tape their paragraphs up on the board. Ask students to compare the different versions.

9.      Interviewing Danny

Tell your class that during the listening activity, you noticed that Danny asked the questions, but didn’t answer any. Tell everyone that they are going to have an opportunity to ask Danny questions, and they don’t have to limit the subject to clothes. They can ask Danny about anything! Give the class around 10 minutes to write as many questions as they can think of. Next, put a chair in front of the class and call on a student to take the role of Danny. Tell students ask their questions. After 3 questions, give the student in the chair an opportunity to choose a new “Danny”. Repeat the activity 5 times.

10.  Spins-Offs

Ask the class if they know what a spin-off is. Tell them it’s a TV series that is based on some of the characters or situations from an earlier series. Put students into pairs and ask them to brainstorm some possible spin-offs from the dialogue, situations that are suggested by the dialogue. Ask each pair to list 4 or 5 situations. After a few minutes, ask them to read out their ideas, and write in the board. Aim at getting 6 or 7 spin-off situations up on the board.

Purpose of The Writer : Students can recalling and reconstructing information from listening also  practicing new words and phrase in speaking or writing.