Listening activities for elementary and intermediate levels

Urs Kalberer, ETAS Zofingen, 20 January 2019

▪ No record▪ Real time (high demand for storing information

in the memory)▪ No control of speech rate▪ Variability (accents, register)▪ No gaps between words

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…

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http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish-podcasts/series-04-episode-01

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4V3Mo61fJM

tomorrow

because bird

trouble

mother

hotsingnever

wonder

money

after

how

night

you

hate

late

so

tearlove

car run

hill

over

song

girl

• Listeners listen to a story• After 50 words teacher pauses and

learners guess the next word.• Word should be easy to guess.• After guesses the teacher gives the

answer.

from sea holiday

car to hotel

food see drive

http://www.voscreen.com/

• Watching TV• Listening radio• Direct interaction• Speech live• Telephone to a friend• Storytelling• Telephone to a business partner

Watching TV 6Listening radio 7Direct interaction 1Speech live 5Telephone to a friend 2Story telling 4Telephone to a business partner 3

Criteria used for ranking the above tasks

•Visibility•Possibility to intervene in visual transaction•Possibility to intervene in aural transaction•Factor of familiarity•Monologue or dialogue.