Students work in pairs and compare to check answers, and the teacher reads the text a.. second time or more until everyone agrees on the answers.[r]
(1)TEACHING LISTENING
(Adopted from English Language Teaching
Methodology-BA upgrading course-The Ministry of Education & Training -2003)
1 Open prediction Listen & draw Recall the story Further practice Pre-questions Comprehension
questions
7 Grids
8 Role-play Write –it- up 10.Ordering
(2)1 Open prediction
The teacher doesn’t give the students any statements, only sets the scene and gets students to predict some of the things they will hear in the text Students write down
their predictions In this way students have made their own listening guides The
(3)2 Listen & draw
The teacher gives students a map, a house plan or diagram or pictures-any
visual that students can draw on- draw a route, mark changes, or label parts The visual can be copied off the board or
(4)3 Recall the story
Students re-tell the story in the listening text in their own words The teacher can help them by doing a mini drill first, usually the same
pictures or simplified statements that were
used for ‘predicting’ in the pre-listening task or ‘ordering’ or ‘selecting’ in the while listening
(5)4 Further practice
The teacher chooses a topic related to the listening topic, usually a topic
personalized to the students, and design a production activity for the students to do For example, after doing the ‘grids’, they will describe other classmates; or students can recount similar stories to the listening text-things that have
(6)5 Pre-questions
The teacher puts a few pre-questions on the board: one pre-question for main point in the listening text Students read and think about
the pre-questions The pre-questions focus the students’ attention but students don’t have to guess or predict the answers if they don’t want to After the first listening they answer the
(7)6 Comprehension questions
This is the most common ‘while-listening’ technique Students are given a set of
questions- True/False statements, multiple
choice, and ‘Wh’ or ‘Yes-No’ questions While listening, they answer the questions
Sometimes these comprehension questions have two parts; the first part help students focus on the main ideas of the listening
(8)7 Grids
The teacher puts a table on the board and students copy it The table gets students to listen for facts or details in the text Some of the information has already been filled in the boxes of the table to guide their listening
Students listen and fill in the rest, in note form Students work in pairs and compare to check answers, and the teacher reads the text a
(9)8 Role-play
Students dramatize the listening text, taking the roles of the characters in the story they have just heard This is particularly good for students who haven’t studied the past tense but have just heard a story in the past tense The role-play transfers a past tense story into the present tense The teacher organizes the role- play by putting all the same ‘roles’
together, eliciting and then letting them practice what they will say, then
(10)9 Write –it- up
Students write up the information that they have in their listening instruction They reconstruct the text in their own words using the notes in the grids or
drawings in the ‘listen & draw’ exercises as cues Students practice writing in
(11)10.Ordering
The teacher gives students statements or
pictures on the board Students must discuss in pairs/groups and predict the correct order The statements/pictures have letters a,b,c, etc Students fill in their chosen order 1, 2, 3, etc in a grid In pairs they compare their answers
(12)11 True/False statement for prediction
The teacher writes 5-10 statements on the board
based on the main ideas in the listening text Only half of the statements are true Students copy the numbers of statements in their books In pairs students predict which of the statements are true and underlines the numbers (or mark them T/F) Students call out their predictions The teacher does not say if they are right or wrong The teacher reads the text Students tick predictions that are right or wrong and any that they