Examples of questions to use are:
A list of statements about the recording that students note as being true or false, or
don’t know from the recording.
Questions starting with how many…? When…? What did…? Who did…? What time
did…? Why did they…?
If you design the questions yourself, focus on sections that are essential to
understanding the whole text and not on subjects of secondary importance.
Give students time to read over the questions so they know beforehand what is
expected of them. Answer any questions they might have. Play the recording again,
students note down their answers. Students compare answers in pairs and then
teacher conducts feedback as a whole class.
(5) If necessary, play the recording again. You need to get the balance right here
between how often you play the recording and the level of interest of the students. I
would say play it once for general understanding and a maximum of twice for listening
for specific or detailed information. You might exceptionally play it one more time, but
this doesn’t necessarily increase students’ understanding and they can just get more
frustrated and demotivated. A wiser approach is to help them more with each
successive listening; give more hints and clues each time based on the answers the
students provide. If you set questions on difficult sections of the recording, keep these
questions short and simple and make sure they focus on the points that are essential
to understanding the recording. This approach will help guide your students through
the recording. If students have all answers to the question in (4) correct, it is not
necessary to listen again. If they have all answers correct except one, you might
choose to play only that section of the recording.
(6)
After listening, do some oral work and/or language work linked to the recording.
For example: if students have been listening to a recording portraying a scene in a
shop, have them role-play a shop scene. If the recording was a debate about health
and lifestyle, they can discuss their opinions of the topic.
(7) You can also choose some language items as a focus; for example during a job
interview the present perfect and simple past questions are frequently used (have you
ever worked in a restaurant? When did you leave your last job?). Ask your students to
listen again to a particular sentence or question and to write it down. Alternatively, you
can give them part of the phrase and ask them to complete it. Note their answers on
the board and focus on the structure(s). You can then do some controlled and/or freer
language practice around the tenses (see Chapter 1). Language work can be done on
grammar, vocabulary or pronunciation (for ideas, see Chapter 10, Pronunciation).
Guessing words from context is also a useful language exercise after a listening
activity. Choose 2 or 3 words that are unfamiliar to your students and that you didn’t
pre-teach at the beginning of the lesson. Write the sentence or phrase that contains
the word on the board and help students to guess the meaning from the context.
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For example:
in the desert, the temperature can drop very low at night.
Let’s assume that your students know the word desert and temperature, you can ask
students to guess the meaning of the word “drop”. They should be able to guess it from
their knowledge of the world and from the other words they see in the sentence. If not,
you can guide them with questions such as: is the word a verb, noun or adjective?
Does it describe movement, thought, etc?
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