Listening

Listening is a skill that can be developed. A way to make listening interesting is to make it personalized. This can be done through pre- or post- discussion of the listening.

 Decrease the teacher talking time.
Ask instruction checking questions and concept checking questions.

Praise the students for their efforts.

Remember the Pre-, During, and Post- activities.

Heinemann Hits is a very interesting book that gives us a lot of helpful ideas using songs.

You can use the listening as a warm up.

You should prepare the students before the listening.

You can also use the listening while teaching reading or grammar to introduce or enforce what students learned.

You can use the map activity to introduce the students to the place the singer comes from.

Active listening is what we aim at. Give them a sheet of paper to fill in while they are listening to a presentation or a lecture.

There can be more than one recording and they can listen to each other recording.

Students can fill surveys before or after the listening.