NEW EXPERIENCES WITH LISTENING

Working with sounds !

Working with music !
Working with feelings and emotions !
Working with imagination !

Activities to enhance comunication

Techniques to encourage students to know each other better.
Techniques to make sure everyone works.
Techniques to develope and improve language fluency, imagination

 SOUNDS

Preparation for the activity:

1) There are a lot of things we recognize be their sound, even though we can’t
see them. For example...
2) You are going to listen to some sounds of ...
3) What sounds do you think you are going to listen to?
4) Make a list
5) Listen
6) Compare the list with the listening

Detailed listening:

7) Sounds of (animals): Put a tick in your list.

8) Sounds of (animals): Number them in your list.
9) Evoque them
10)Make a short story with them

Ending: Speaking and Writing + Imagination: Group Techniques

11)‘Now we are going to make sounds in this place.” Examples

12)Technique for group formation: (clap , slide your feet, cough, etc)
13)Think about more sounds you can make in this place.
14)Choose 7 .
15)Make a story with them. Play the sounds as you read it.

2) Teach your students to do listenings gradually:

Selective Listening:

You are going to listen to a dialogue

Multiple Choice:
Identify the people who are talking
Identify the topic
Identify the place where the conversation takes place

Detailed Listening:
Complete the chart, list.. etc

Follow up: Working with Vocabulary and Grammar.

MUSIC + PICTURES: Working with Feelings and Emotions

Preparation for the activity:

Vocabulary: Feelings and Emotions you know

Listening
Choose a picture for each piece of music. Say why

LISTENING + IMAGINATION:
Vocabulary – Verb Tenses
listening, speaking, writing, reading

Sequences of sounds
Describe them

Details:
Is it a man or a woman?
What has he got?
Music + Imagination

Listen to Stevie Wonder’s theme . Use your imagination

Tell the others what you imagined: Try to describe smells , colours, the place, was
anyone there? Were there any animals? Were you in the scene? What was
happening? Etc.

Listening and Imagination: Choose a piece of music that could describe how you
felt during the Workshop and say why.