Listening activities

1. UNIVERSIDAD TÉCNICA DE AMBATO
CARRERA DE IDIOMAS
LANGUAGE TEACHING STRATEGIES
ELEMENT 2
NAMES: ARCENTALES JONATHAN
MANOBANDA VIVIANA
RENJIFO MONICA

2. Unit 3
LISTENING
 The first skill children acquire
 Re-tell (stories) – breaks
 Concentration (Young learners have a very short
attention span)
 Not to overload children
 Not check understanding at the end
 Peaceful or a noise atmosphere

3. ‘Listen and do’ activities
 Instructions
 Genuine
 Classroom language

4. Moving about
 Physical activities
hop on your left foot five time
 Ts’ can check classroom vocabulary,
counting, spelling, movement words
 Ss’ will be able to undestand by
watching others

5. Put up your hand
 Sound system
 Hear a certain word
 Miss out a number

6. Mime stories
 Ts tell the story( Ss’ and Ts do the actions)
 Chance to play along with pupils
 Example

7. Drawing
 Listen and drawing
 Take time
 Keep pictures simple
 Describe the picture
 For checking object vocabulary, prepositions,
colours and numbers
 Drawing is not useful for actions

8.  Listening for information
 Is really un umbrella heading which covers a
very wide range of listening activities.
 Listening for detail, for specific information.
 Activities are often use to check what the pupils
know, also can be used to give new
information.
 Identifying exercises

9.  Listen for the
mistake
 You can use the picture in your book but
make mistakes in the text you read, so
that pupils have to listen for the mistakes.
The same can be done using the correct
text and the wrong picture.
 Pupils have a number of pictures which
illustrate a text in front of them. The
pictures are not in the right order. Pupils
listen to the text and put the pictures in
the order they think is right.
 Putting things in
order

10.  Questionnaires
 Children love colouring pictures and we
can easily make this activity into a
listening activity. We can use any picture
which the pupils have in their workbook.
Instead of that, make it into a language
activity.
 Listen and colour
They are very useful type of
language exercise. It involves a little
bit of writing or the filling in of
numbers.

11.  Filling in missing information
 Pupils can fill in the missing words of a
song or a text timetable.
 They are great fun and give the pupils the
chance to get a feel for the language: the
sounds, the stress and rhythm and the
intonation.
 When done in combination with movements or
with objects or pictures, this type of activity also
helps to establish the link between words and
meaning.
 Listen and repeat activities

12. Rhymes
 All children love rhymes and like to repeat them
again and again. You can use either traditional
rhymes or modern rhymes and you don´t have
to worry too much about the grading.
 Children play with language in their mother
tongue, so this is a familiar part of their world
and it has an important part to play in their
learning process.

13. LISTEN AND REPEAT EXERCISES
 SONGS
 DRILLS
 WORDS WITH SPECIAL SOUND
 SHORT DIALOGUES
 MESSAGES

14. LISTENING TO STORIES
VITAL ROLE IN CHILD AND LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
 FORM INNER PICTURE OF THE STORY
 FEELINGS
 WRITING PROCESS
 ORAL PRODUCTION

15. TELLING STORIES
 GESTURES AND FACIAL EXPRESSIONS
 EYE CONTACT
 AVOID THE USE OF BOOKS
 ADAPT THE LANGUAGE TO ANY LEVEL

16. STORIES
READING
 USE OF A BOOK
 CHILDREN PASSIVE ROLE
 TIMECONSUMING
 YOUNGER GROUPS
 OLDER GROUPS
 DO NOT CHANGE THE STORY
CREATING
 CHILDREN CREATION
 FEELING OF SHARED STORY
 CREATIVE
 FUN
 ORAL PRODUCTION
 WRITING PRODUCTION

17. INDEPENDENT LISTENING