Many of listening/reading classes

are like…
Walk around the classroom
and read the sheets of paper
stuck on the walls
Suggested solution:
Get students to speak before and after they read/listen.
Suggested solution:
Help students to build background knowledge
Suggested solution
• Create interesting speaking tasks after students read/listen
Suggested solution
Divide it into parts (*)
When it comes to lehren aussprache, teachers should make it
sichtbar by using gummibänder or händeklatschen.
Additionally, teachers should übertreiben the wörter so that
students can erkenne the betonte silben easily.

So many new words => hard/impossible to understand

 Suggested solution

When it comes to teaching aussprache, teachers

should make it sichtbar by using rubber bands or
händeklatschen. Additionally, teachers should
übertreiben the words so that students can
recognize the stressed syllables easily.
Suggested solution:
Teach some of the new words before students read/listen so they can
guess meaning from context.
 3 stages of a reading/listening lesson
• Pre-reading/listening stage
• While-reading/listening stage
• Post-reading/listening stage
 Pre-reading/listening stage
• Show pictures
• Play a short video
• Ask questions
• Make use of the pictures and title of the lesson
• Build background knowledge
• Lead to the lesson
• Teach some vocabulary
 while-reading/listening stage
• Sts read/listen (read out loud, read silently, read in group, read individually)
• Sts do some tasks
• T walks around while students are reading
 Post-reading/listening stage
• Check answers
• Ask higher order thinking questions
• Get sts to do speaking tasks
• Analyze the language used in the lesson
• Provide interesting facts about the topic
Higher order thinking questions
• Lower order thinking questions:
- Why did Troy decide to order
sunglasses online?
- What problems did Troy face?
- What does Nancy like about shopping
online?
• Higher order thinking questions:
- What would you do if you were Troy?
- Do you agree that shopping online is
saving time?
- What do you like the most about this
reading passage?
• Higher order thinking questions:
- What do you think about the
woman’s attitude?
- What would you do if you were
the man?
Analyze the language
• A dream or a nightmare?
• Too busy to go to the stores
• Look used
• What a waste of time
• Wait in line to pay
• Compare prices
• My advice is:…
Analyze the language

• A casual smoker
• Nag me about it
• Get caught smoking
• Under a lot of pressure
• Lie to someone
Create an interesting, creative speaking activity
• Not a totally new topic
• Make sure sts can use language in the lesson
Sample speaking tasks for ONLINE SHOPPING
Role play 1: You want to invite your friend to go shopping with you next
week, but they prefer shopping online. Try to persuade them.

Role play 2: You’ve just received some items from an online shop.
Unfortunately, they are not as good as you expected. Call the shop
owner to complain.
Sample speaking task for SMOKING

At mom’s house
Further discussion
How could I find the answers in the audio quickly?
1. 0:27
2. 0:40 1:23 1:28 1:35
3. 0:45
4. 0:54 1:10
What knowledge/skills do we need to
understand a reading/listening text?
 教我英语的老师非常美丽.
教:teach
我: me
英语: English
的: who (relative pronoun)
老师: teacher
非常: extremely
美丽: beautiful.
When it comes to teaching aussprache, teachers
should make it sichtbar by using rubber bands or
händeklatschen. Additionally, teachers should
übertreiben and aussprechen the words so that
students can recognize the stressed syllables easily
and hear each sound clearly.
 What knowledge/skills do we need to
understand a reading/listening text?
Sounds Background knowledge
Words
Grammar structures Top-down processing

Bottom-up processing
Get sts to say out
loud what they
think
 Group teaching
• Pre-reading stage (around 2 minutes)
- Show pictures
- Ask some questions
- Lead to the lesson
- DO NOT teach new words
• While-reading stage (around 2 minutes)
• Post-reading stage (around 3 minutes)
- Ask 3 higher order thinking questions
- Get Sts to do an interesting speaking activity