Can listening activities be fun and motivating? These slides look at listening in the EFL classroom and outline five fun and easy-to-use activities to help EFL learners build listening skills in an enjoyable and exciting way. Material from the e-future texts Listen Up and Listen Up Plus are used in the slides. These slides are from a presentation delivered at KOTESOL in Seoul on October 12th, 2013.

1. Five Fun Activities
to Build Listening
Skills
Gabriel Allison

2. What are we going to do?
1.Warm Up
2.What Makes Listening Difficult
3.Success for Students and Teachers
4.Five Fun Activities
5.Listen Up Overview

3. What are we going to do?
1.Warm Up
2.What Makes Listening Difficult
3.Success for Students and Teachers
4.Five Fun Activities
5.Listen Up Lesson Flow

4. What are the
different ways we
communicate?

5. Audience Quiz!

6. Percentage of daily
Areas of Study
communication…
Reading 3rd
16%
Listening 1st
45%
Speaking 2nd
30%
Writing 4
th
9%
(Burely-Allen, 1995)

7. What’s this guy’s
problem?

8. BAD LISTENING SKILLS!!!

9. What are your
approaches?
1.
What kind of listening
activities do you do with
your Ss?
2.
How are your Ss
performing?
3.
Do you have any tips to
share?

10. What are we going to do?
1.Warm Up
2.What Makes Listening Difficult
3.Success for Students and Teachers
4.Five Fun Activities
5.Listen Up Overview

11. Five Things to Consider When
Choosing Listening Material:
1. Number of Speakers
2. Distinctness of Voices
3. Order of Events
4. Inference’s Needed
5. Listener’s Subject Knowledge
(Brown, 1995)

12. More?

13. What are we going to do?
1.Warm Up
2.What Makes Listening Difficult
3.Success for Students and Teachers
4.Five Fun Activities
5.Listen Up Overview

14. Student Success
Students need to….
(1) have an idea what the topic will be
(2) know something about the topic
(3) predict things that will be said
(4) know key words & phrases used

15. Teacher Success
Teachers need to….
(1) activate Ss’ background knowledge
(2) prepare Ss’ for listening content
(3) build up Ss’ listening skills
(4) assess Ss’ progress

16. What are we going to do?
1.Warm Up
2.What Makes Listening Difficult
3.Success for Students and Teachers
4.Five Fun Activities
5.Listen Up Overview

17. 1. Listening
Cloze

18. 1. Select a listening passage
2. Choose some key words to delete
3. Rules:
- Teacher: passes out modified script
- Students: make notes and work together
- Students: guess the missing words
- Teacher: play the dialogue

19. CD 1, Track 2

20. 2. Get in Order

21. 1. Cut up a listening script.
2. Tape it to the backs of students.
3. Explain the rules:
- Students: help each other to read
- Teacher: plays the dialogue once
- Students: listen for their portion
- Students: get in correct order
- Students: grab script from back
-Teacher: plays the dialogue again
- Students: listen and check

22. CD 1, Track 10

23. 3. What’s Wrong
with the Picture?

24. 1. Select an image from the book.
2. Change key words
3. Write down the modified script
3. Pair or group students
4. Explain the rules:
- Students: listen & look
- Students: make notes
-Teacher: reviews the differences
-5. Have students lead the activity

26. 4. Running
Dictation

27. 1. Put students in pairs: A & B
2. Gather students at one end of the room
3. Put listening script at opposite end
The listening script should be small
4. Explain the rules:
-Student A : Run, read, run back to partner
-Student A: Dictate what they remember
-Student B: listen and write
-Continue until dictated correctly

28. 1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Lisa is going to the bookstore.
Tony is going to the supermarket.
Mike is going to the post office.
Jenny is going to the playground.
Harry is going to the restaurant.
1. Jenny is going to the playground.
2. Harry is going to the restaurant.
3. Tony is going to the supermarket.
4. Lisa is going to the bookstore.
5. Mike is going to the post office.
Blue Team Red Team

29. 5. Listening
Journals

30. 1. Students: listen to things out of class
(TV, radio, music, conversations, sounds, etc.)
2. Students: write a few things about it
3. Keep notes in a journal
optional
- Students post recordings on class blog
- Students bring recordings to class

31. Example:
Listening Journal
1. What did you listen to?
English song. Justin Bieber. “Baby”
2. Where did you listen to it?
At home. On the internet: YouTube.com
3. Was it easy/difficult?
Some parts easy. Some parts difficult.
4. New words/phrases
shout, cool, dream, baby (?)

32. What are we going to do?
1.Warm Up
2.What Makes Listening Difficult
3.Success for Students and Teachers
4.Five Fun Activities
5.Listen Up Overview

33. • Perfect for Young Learners
• Built-in recycling of language
• Short, achievable lessons
• Practical topics
• 4 Review Lessons per book
• Dictation Book
Fun and
Easy
Listening
Practice!

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