LISTENING CLASSES

Teacher’s Training
Course
I.
A.
Presentation. COURSE OUTLINE
Ice-Breaking Activity.
II. Introduction.
III. How to Carry Out a Regular Listening Activity.
A. Pre-listening activities.
a. Have students read comprehension
questions ahead.
B. Play audio file once.
a. Have students answer the questions as
they listen.
C. Go over the answers and clarify any doubts.
D. Replay audio file.
a. Have students confirm their answers.
IV. Optional Activities.
A. Listen and reproduce.
B. Songs.
V. Exercises.
VI. Conclusions.
VII. Bibliography.
 INTRODUCTION
Listening is arguably the most important skill
required for obtaining comprehensible input in one’s
first and any subsequent languages.
We listen considerably more than we read, write, or
speak.
Given the importance of listening, the natural
assumption is that listening skills are actively taught to
both first and second language learners.
 INTRODUCTION
Even though teachers enjoy
these types of activities
(leisure time for them as the
conversation is playing),
students usually struggle
with the comprehension of
the material.
This situation could be
quite discouraging, for
students may feel they’re
not having a good
performance.
 INTRODUCTION
Listen to Teacher Steve Story talk about listening
activities in the classroom.
The following steps may help teachers carry out
listening activities in a more dynamic way.
Once again, the types and variation of drills will depend
on the students’ level.
 HOW TO CARRY OUT A REGULAR LISTENING
ACTITITY

Go over the
Pre-Listening Play Audio File
Answers and Replay Audio File
Activities Once
Clarify any Doubts
• Have students read • Have students • You could explain • Have students
comprehension answer the some new confirm their
questions ahead. questions as they vocabulary and answers,
listen. expressions they individually or in
might have heard. pairs.
 OPTIONAL ACTIVITIES
Listen and reproduce.
More suitable for intermediate
and upper levels.
This drill is similar to a reading
activity:
 Go through vocabulary.
 Segment.
 Whole conversation.
 Play the entire conversation/story.
 Play first segment once.
 Have a student reproduce this
segment.
 Use fingers to help him/her

integrate.
 Go over the rest of the segments in
the same fashion.
 Play the whole conversation once

more.
 OPTIONAL ACTIVITIES
Songs.
Excellent choice for having
fun in the classroom.
Entertaining for students,
but a bit hard for teachers to
prepare.
Provides a greater variety of
new vocabulary words and
expressions that students
can integrate to their
knowledge.
 The song has to be popular and
catchy.
 BIBLIOGRAPHY
 Internet Resources.
5 Minute English, a great website with free exercises for
ESL Teachers.
 http://www.5minuteenglish.com/
ESLgo.com, another good website with song activities
and some ideas for doing them.
 http://www.eslgo.com/