How To Article: Ten Pre-Listening Activities

Title                             : Ten Pre-Listening Activities

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Topic                           : Education

Details                        : There are three stages of a listening comprehension (pre-listening, while-listening, and post listening). The first I will share ten activities that you can use in the pre-listening stage. For this article, I will organize all the activities around “Gardens” a listening track from Sean Banville’s Listen in Minute site (www.listenaminute.com)

1.      Mind Map

The first, teacher write the word “GARDENS” in the middle of the board, in big letters. Draw a circle around it. Then, ask students to think of a word that relates to gardens and write in on the board. After that, ask students to draw line from ”gardens” to the word and draw circle around the word. Repeat these steps will there are seven different words on the board.

2.      Slide Show

In this activities teacher should be makes 10 different images of gardens. Show these images using power point to your students. Each time you present an image, ask a student a question to get them to describe the pictures and get their reactions.

3.      KWL Chart

Give each student a copy of KWL chart. Ask students to think about gardens and write down what they know in the first column. Then, to write any questions they have about gardens in the second column. Finally, put students into pairs to compare their work in both column. Later on, during the while-listening stage, students can take notes what they hear in the third column.

4.      Words On The Board

Write these words in different places all over the board: artist, perfect, fruits, garden, colorful. Then, ask student to circle two words, and make a good structure using both.

5.      Discussion Questions

Write questions about garden on the board. Then, put students into pairs. Ask them to discuss. After a few minutes, call a several students to give you their answers.

6.      Discussion With Mingle

Write the questions from activity five on the board. Give each student a number and tell them to practice saying the question that corresponds with their number. Then, ask student to stand up and walk around. After three minutes, tell them to return their seats. Ask a new student what answer they got to their question.

7.      Gap Fill

In this activity, give students questions in form fill-in-the-blank. Ask them to choose one of the sentences and complete it with their own ideas. Give them four or five minutes to think, and then call on several students to read out their ideas.

8.      Questions

Write some question on the board, such as WH question as well as how much? How often? Does? Is? After that, tell the class that you are going to give them a topic and see how many questions they can write related to topic in two minutes. After finished, put student into pairs. Ask each pairs to choose their best question and write on the board.

9.      Exploring Picture

In this activity, teacher prepared pictures of English and Japanese gardens and show these on power point slides to show to the class. Every you present a picture ask student to give you an adjective that describes the picture. Option: put pictures (pre ferably color) of English and Japanese gardens on large sheets of poster paper (one picture per poster). Tape the paper up on the wall, and ask students to circulate.

10.  Recalling a Dream

Purpose of The Writer     : These activities are focused on one or more of the following aims: activating schema (getting students to recall what they already know about the subject), predicting, and developing student curiosity and interest.