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This is a very flexible type of dictation that
involves listening to the teacher, speaking
in groups, writing and checking.
The teacher reads a short text to the learners, who just listen.

The teacher reads the text again, and the lea

rners take notes.
Then in groups they recreate the text from the
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To check the groups texts, volunteers can write the text on

the board sentence by sentence while their

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original text if the language is correct.

For lower levels you can help learners by giving them the text
with words missing and they have to fill the ga
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For more examples of similar exercises, please visit:

www.teachingenglish.org.uk

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