... advance what the listening passage concerns. The four kinds of pre -listening activities help to activate students' prior knowledge, build up their expectations for the coming information and ... better.What Influences Our Choice of Top-down Activities? The choice of the activities will depend on a number of factors, such as: ListeningActivitiesfor Effective Top-down ProcessingJi LingzhuIntroductionOnce ... topic. This is very good for narrative or descriptive passages.Why Are These Activities Important?Listeners do make use of background knowledge for comprehension. Therefore it seems logical...
... This packet of listening and speaking activities contains just a few of the hundreds of activities available for classroom instruction. The activities are directly tied to two of the listening/ speaking ... class="bi x1e y8b w0 h0" alt="" Listening and Speaking Activities for Adult ESL Learners Correlated to the BEST Plus Assessment and CASAS Listening Basic Skills Content Standards ... Classroom Activities. ” Focus on Basics, Volume 8, Issue A. Retrieved December 11, 2006 from http://www.ncsall.net/?id=989 Rost, M. (1991) Listening in Action: Activitiesfor developing listening...
... detailed information or for full comprehension. For example, listening to the announcement , listening to the instructions or listening to the weather forecast. There may be much concrete information ... something to lead to while -listening stage. The teachers realize the importance of setting up the activities before listening, the fact is that all the activities given before listening are looked ... while -listening activities The While- listening stage involves activities that students are asked to do during the time that they are listening to the text. The purpose of while -listening activities...
... personality, 'but they care for one another almost as if they were a family. The most impressive ofthem is the old dog. The journey was the most difficult for him, but amazingly he found ... year, the AAU officially accepted synchronized swimming as a competitive sport for team events. In1946 the first formal national championships were conducted by the AAU. Synchronized swimming ... water sport. So she tried to get synchronized swimmingadded to the physical education programme for female students. In 1923 she founded a water ballet club at the University ofChicago and sixty...
... 1. To work together for international peace and to solve international problems; 2. To develop friendly relations among nations; 3. To work together for human rights for everyone of all races, ... outside the home. Women hold forty percent of all the world's jobs. For this work they earn only 40 to 60 percent as much as men, and of course they earn nothing for their domestic work In ... ã No member will use force against another member. ã All members will help the UN in its actions ãThe UN will not try to solve problems within countries except to enforce international peace....
... Structure: Activities for next SundayUnit9:Wednesday,February 18th 2009Lesson one: section A1,2,3 Learn by heartI. VocabularyI. VocabularyII. Structure: Activities for next ... tomorrow?Nam:I’m going to play football. What about you, Alan?Alan:I’m going to visit Ha long Bay. Activities for next SundayUnit9:Wednesday,February 18th 2009Lesson one: section A1,2,31. VDII. ... Thi Lan Anh I. I. VocabularyVocabulary- tomorrow (tt):- next(tt):ngày maitíi Activities for next SundayUnit9:Wednesday,February 18th 2009Lesson one: section A1,2,3next Sundaynext...
... eat apples. etc.5. Transformation Exercises. The teacher gives a sentence to students along in a brief instruction which forces the students to communicate with other form.Example: Teacher: ... After the students havepracticed and understood the dialogue, they can practice again, usinginformation of their own.8. Dialogue creation. Students can be, given the beginning lines in adialogue...
... oriented listeningactivities contribute to motivation. Fun activities or success oriented activities where students win a game because they completed a task are some possible techniques for increasing ... in a listening activity. Students without a purpose forlistening will exhibit less motivation for succeeding. ConclusionReal Audio is a new technology that is not being used in the ESL classroom ... can enjoy include: ã Listening to information that interests them. ã Listening to sound clips over and over again. ã Listening to a variety of voices which strengthens listening ability. ã...
... in many ways in the ESL classroom as well as in other classrooms. Presentations can be used for initial teaching, for practice and drilling, for games, for reviews, and for tests. Initial ... after year. They can be used for whole class presentationsand reviews, for drills, or for individual work. PowerPoint presentations run on both Macintosh and Windows platforms. Files are small unless ... to review before a test. TestsA teacher in our school uses PowerPoint for his tests. He places pictures of items on slides to be shown at preset intervals. (He sets his timer for a reasonable...