This document provides listening activities for teaching English to young and older learners. For young learners, it recommends activities like "listen and draw" and "listen and choose the correct picture" that require little verbal response. For older learners, it suggests activities like "listening for key words in a song" and "listen and repeat" to help grasp new vocabulary and sounds in an engaging way. The document introduces different listening activities and provides online resources to support English language teaching through listening practice.

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Activities for the
teaching of listening to
young learners

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The introduction:
Activities for youner learner:
- listen and draw.
- listening and choose the correct picture.
Activities for older learners:
- Listening for key words in a song.
- listen and repeat
Conclusion:

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Introduction
During the natural process of
acquiring a language every human
being passes through a silent period
where he just listen and absorb the
language. That is why listening is a
very important stage in language
learning.

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Activities for young
learners
• Young learners usually don’t have the
basic means to manipulate linguistic
features of the target language. Thus
easy listening tasks that require little
or none verbal response are strongly
recommended. Accordingly we
choose these activities:
Listen and circle the correct answer
Listen and draw

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Listen and draw
In the middle of the picture there is a big house.
The house has a door and two windows.
In the top right hand side of the picture there is a
very big sun.
In front of the house there is a little girl and little
boy.
In the top left hand side of the picture there are two
clouds.
Below the two clouds there are two big birds flying.
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/try/activities/pict
ure-dictation
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/sites/teacheng/fil
es/picdic.pdf

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Listen and choose the correct
picture
http://www.123listening.com/feelings.php

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Activities for older learners
 unlike young children, older
learners have the background
knowlege and the cognitive skills to
deal with these kind of tasks: Listening
for key words in a song and listen
and repeat.
The aim of these activities is to help
children grasp new vocabulary in an
easy and funny way through listening
to songs and repeating accurately
some English sounds and words .

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Listening for key words in a song
• Try Again
Don’t care if you fail today
Try again you’ll see it work
Better and better the more you try
That’s how we learn to do our work
Better and better the more you try
Practice is the only way
To be the best that I can be
So I don’t care if I fail today
I’ll try again and soon be there
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/try/activities/listening-key-words-songs
Marta J. Sabbadini, British Council, Cameroon
http://www.kaleidoscopesongs.com/
http://freekidsmusic.com/music-il.html

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Listen and repeat

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conclusion
• Listening activities facilitates
children’s acquisition of
language. The more they hear
the more they will be familiar with
the language in general.