Teaching Listening

1. Abolfazl Ghanbari
abgh8156@yahoo.com
Teaching
Listening

2. Aims:
• To understand listening subskills.
• To know some classroom activities for listening.
• To plan a listening lesson in three steps.

3. Lead in:
Watch a short clip and write down six things that
make a good teacher.

5. Task 1: Listening subskills
Match the subskills to their definitions.

6. Task 1 : Answers
1 listening for specific information = d
2 listening for gist = g
3 listening for detail = b
4 intensive listening = f
5 extensive listening = a
6 Top-down processing = c
7 Bottom-up processing = e

7. Task 2: Classroom activities
Complete the table by matching the activities to the subskills in Task 2.

8. Task 2: Answers
1 Extensive listening
2 Listening for gist
3 Listening for specific purposes
4 Listening for detail
5 Intensive listening
6 Listening for specific purposes
7 Listening for gist
8 Intensive listening
9 Top-down processing
10 Bottom-up processing

9. Task 3: A typical listening lesson
Match the steps with the activities.

10. Task 3: Answer sheet
1) d
2) b
3) a
4) e
5) c

11. Task 4: Steps in a listening lesson
Pre-listening
tasks
While-listening
tasks
Post-listening
tasks

12. Pre-listening tasks:
• Brainstorming
• Showing pictures & flash cards
• Showing movies
• Discussion
• Reading
• Searching the internet
• Matching words with pictures
• Pre-teaching unknown vocabulary

13. While listening tasks:
• Listening for the gist of meaning
• Writing Displayed(Referential) questions on the board
• Guessing the meaning of new words
• Checking the prediction

14. Post-listening tasks:
• Asking questions:
o Referential questions
o Inferential questions
• Personalizing
• Retelling the conversation briefly
• Synonyms/antonyms
• Matching words with definition

15. Task 5: Do or Don’t
1 Do
2 Don’t
3 Do
4 Do
5 Don’t
6 Do
7 Do
8 Don’t
9 Do
10 Don’t

16. Reflection:
• Think back to a recent lesson you had and answer the following questions:
1. To some extent did you practice on listening?
2. What subskills were being used in the lesson?

17. Aims:
• To understand listening subskills.
• To know some classroom activities for listening.
• To plan a listening lesson in three steps.