This document provides descriptions of several activities and games to develop listening skills in foreign language learning. Some of the activities described include Rhubarb where students listen for mistakes, The Actions Game where students perform actions cued in the text, Jigsaw Reading where students fill in blanks in paired reading, and Draw it where students draw what they hear without writing. Other listening activities utilizing videos and transcripts are also mentioned.
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Reorder paragraphs:1
www.pteacademic.org
A.The month long
program has been especially designed for those with some previous acting experience.
B.
If you’ve always wanted to be on TV or the stage then Jackson Acting is for you!
C. Our techniques
guarantee to eradicate the nervousness that often accompanies live performances.
D
Town hall auditorium venue prepares participants for live performances.
E.Live audience
for final performance.
Tips and strategies to help you do well at the Summary Completion section of the IELTS reading exam.
For more English tutorials, please visit:
https://www.thelecturette.com
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Teaching Listening Skills to English as a Foreign Language Students through E...ijtsrd
This paper discusses how to teach listening so that EFL learners can develop a level of listening ability that is useful in the real world, not just in the classroom. It asserts that if teachers know the processes involved in listening comprehension and some feature of spoken English, it can provide students with appropriate advice and effective listening practice. Conversation will take place when we can understand what speaker says. Listening is an important input. EFL students who are learning English face problems in listening due to anxiety and lack of strategies to deal with listening. This paper is intended to reduce listening difficulties and improve their listening skill effectively for EFL learning through effective strategies and skills. In this paper, some effective listening strategies, skills and the use of new techniques are presented. The main aim of this study is that it can be helpful to share and teach listening strategies to EFL learners as it can give more confidence to try new ways to enhance their listening skill. Nu Nu Wah "Teaching Listening Skills to English as a Foreign Language Students through Effective Strategies" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-6 , October 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd29246.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/english/29246/teaching-listening-skills-to-english-as-a-foreign-language-students-through-effective-strategies/nu-nu-wah
PTE exam is Pearson’s test of English that is a computer-based examination to test your proficiency level in English. This examination is accepted worldwide and helps you get admitted to your choice's college or university. If you are looking forward to migrating to Australia or New Zealand for a better lifestyle or living standard, you will have to take the PTE exam and manage to get a good score on it.
As this exam is computer-based, its scoring process is also computer-based. AI checks your responses so there are very few chances of error. You cannot ace this exam by just winging it. You will need a thorough PTE practice and take several PTE mock tests to prepare yourself to get an excellent score on the PTE exam. This is the most convenient exam as the exam is conducted round the year and across the globe.
For more details, https://www.ptemocktest.com/pte-mock-test/
Activities and warm-up games that will encourage English as a Second Language (ESL) students to speak.
Speaking and Listening activities with a few reading and writing components thrown in.
These activities will help ESL students improve their speaking and listening skills.
Paraphrasing for IELTS - writing task 1David Wills
Paraphrasing is an essential IELTS skill, and it is particularly important for the Writing Task 1, where you need to be able to paraphrase the question.
Teaching Listening Skills to English as a Foreign Language Students through E...ijtsrd
This paper discusses how to teach listening so that EFL learners can develop a level of listening ability that is useful in the real world, not just in the classroom. It asserts that if teachers know the processes involved in listening comprehension and some feature of spoken English, it can provide students with appropriate advice and effective listening practice. Conversation will take place when we can understand what speaker says. Listening is an important input. EFL students who are learning English face problems in listening due to anxiety and lack of strategies to deal with listening. This paper is intended to reduce listening difficulties and improve their listening skill effectively for EFL learning through effective strategies and skills. In this paper, some effective listening strategies, skills and the use of new techniques are presented. The main aim of this study is that it can be helpful to share and teach listening strategies to EFL learners as it can give more confidence to try new ways to enhance their listening skill. Nu Nu Wah "Teaching Listening Skills to English as a Foreign Language Students through Effective Strategies" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-6 , October 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd29246.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/english/29246/teaching-listening-skills-to-english-as-a-foreign-language-students-through-effective-strategies/nu-nu-wah
PTE exam is Pearson’s test of English that is a computer-based examination to test your proficiency level in English. This examination is accepted worldwide and helps you get admitted to your choice's college or university. If you are looking forward to migrating to Australia or New Zealand for a better lifestyle or living standard, you will have to take the PTE exam and manage to get a good score on it.
As this exam is computer-based, its scoring process is also computer-based. AI checks your responses so there are very few chances of error. You cannot ace this exam by just winging it. You will need a thorough PTE practice and take several PTE mock tests to prepare yourself to get an excellent score on the PTE exam. This is the most convenient exam as the exam is conducted round the year and across the globe.
For more details, https://www.ptemocktest.com/pte-mock-test/
Activities and warm-up games that will encourage English as a Second Language (ESL) students to speak.
Speaking and Listening activities with a few reading and writing components thrown in.
These activities will help ESL students improve their speaking and listening skills.
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2. Rhubarb
I can't remember where I got this idea from and have no
idea why it's called Rhubarb, but my students go crazy for
this one.
In groups everyone has a copy of the text to read
along. One person starts reading it and if they make a
mistake, or someone thinks they do, they shout
"Rhubarb" and tell you what they think went wrong. If
they are correct the student who shouted out ‘Rhubarb’
takes over reading and wins a point for their team. If they
hadn’t actually made a mistake, the student who was
originally reading gets a point for their team and carries
on reading.
3. The Actions Game
This is another way of getting students to really focus on the text
when you or a student are reading it out loud. They are given a
list of actions which correspond to certain things within the text
and they have to do the action when you get to that part of the
text.
I read the text first just so they had the pronunciation, then I
chose a few students to read a paragraph each. I then wrote up
any words which they weren't pronouncing correctly and we
spent a few minutes practising them as a class.
Idea from: http://elvisrunner.blogspot.co.uk/
4. Say the next word/sound
This is a great way of getting the students to practise their reading and
listening skills, as well as their pronunciation. It’s so simple to do and,
once you have your text, barely requires any preparation.
Simply read the text out loud stopping at certain points and students
have to say the next word. It means that they actually have to focus
and read through the text and can't just switch off.
Example 1 - Say the next word
Teacher: "Je m'appelle Amelie. J'ai"
Students: "douze"
Example 2 - Say the next syllable
Teacher: "Je m'app"
Students: "elle"
Example 3 - Guess the pattern and say the next word
Teacher: "Je...Amelie...douze...au" (miss a word)
Students: "J'adore"
Idea from: John Slade
5. Jigsaw Reading
In pairs students are given the same text but with different
words missing from each. Person A reads their text out loud
to Person B while they fill in the blanks on their sheet. Then
vice versa. It can even be differentiated as the lower ability
students could be provided with the missing words and would
just have to put them in the correct gaps. Students could also
try to guess the missing words before their partner has read
out the text.
6. Draw it
Here is yet another brilliant idea which I, unfortunately, can’t claim credit for.
A fellow colleague told me about this and it has worked particularly well with
Y9 and 10 so far, but it can be used with all years. You read out a text to your
students and, instead of them answering questions or writing what they hear,
they just draw a picture of it. As they aren’t restricted to answering certain
questions, students usually feel quite positive about the activity and it allows
them to be quite creative. Once they've done this I usually get them to
feedback what they heard. This could be done in the target language or just in
English, depending on the ability. To make it even more of a challenge you
could get them to feedback using third person or using the past tense.
8. YouTube videos
Lots of videos in the TL on YouTube which are
great for developing listening skills.
Could be used as starters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-
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9. Basho & Friends
My HoD told me about this great site and I can't
wait to use it with my students. I'm always on
the lookout for ways to make my lessons a bit
more engaging and what student doesn't love
watching a cheeky little YouTube video? These
videos will hopefully be a nice way of developing
students' listening skills, as well as their
Spanish/French pronunciation. I'm planning on
using these videos to introduce a new topic at
the start of the lesson.
10. Coloured Reading
‘It’s a reading and listening activity.
Colour code sentences in a text.
Project it. Read out a sentence,
pupils have to say the colour
before you finish. Same in groups.’
Idea from: @reebekwylie
11. Guess the Next Word
‘Students have transcript, read
along. You turn sound down to
silent, wait a while and press
pause. They have to guess what
the next word will be (when you
press play again with vol up) gets
very competitive!’
Idea from: @vickilewis2014
12. Listening Activity
‘Students write down a number of words
that they think they may hear then tally
every time they hear it!
Read and followed a text today, then
closed the book, students had to choose
three words and stand up each time they
heard their words, quite funny when
quite a few chose soy when describing
themselves.’
Idea from: @spanishsjhs
13. Heads Down Thumbs Up
‘Heads down thumbs up- students listen
for a particular type of word.
E.G. Opinions, then put their thumbs
up/raise an arm when they hear one and
then put it back down again. Having their
heads down means you can gauge which
students manage to hear and the ones
who can't don't feel embarrassed.’
Idea from: @profescammell
14. Blind Listening
‘Couldn't think of a better name! All students listen
to same listening track, but have varying levels of
help. Level 1 get the question @ the start have a
help sheet in front of them (could be transcript) and
hear the task twice. Level 2 students get the
question @ the start (no other support, just like in a
test). Level 3 students do it "blind". They DONT get
the question @ the start, but instead have to make
notes the first time they hear the extract. Just
before I play it a second time, they are then given
the question / answer sheet. Works well at KS4,
especially with mixed ability classes.’
Idea from: @tinohill
15. Find the Errors
‘Provide the class with the transcript of a
listening, but change some of the words. Their
job is to find the 'errors' and for higher ability,
write the correct word also.
Use the brilliant website 'lyricstraining.com' with
KS4/5’
Idea from: @felizz7