Listening Activity- 1

INTRODUCTION
Dictogloss is a classroom dictation activity where learners are
required to reconstruct a short text by listening and noting down
key words, which are then used as a base for reconstruction. It
works with many short texts/passages.
PROCEDURE
1. Tell your students that they are going to do a special kind of
dictation. Tell them not to write down every word they hear. Ask
them to put down the key words which will help them to
reconstruct the text.
2. Read the text twice with a pause between each reading. Allow
the students some time to write down the key words.
3. Put the students in groups of three and tell them to try to
recreate the text from memory. Point out that their text does not
need to be exactly the same as the original. It has to make sense
and convey the general idea of the original, though. However, let
them know that the creativity on their part is more than welcome.
NB It takes time for students to get used to such an activity. The following passage is
rather short. However I found it appropriate for my students who had not done anything
like this before.

Passage: 1

1. My earlobe is bigger than a strawberry,

2. My nose is longer than a radish,

1
3. My feet are shorter than tomatoes,
4. My hair is thicker than lemongrass,
5. My fingers are like lady fingers,
6. I look good,
7. I smell good,
8. No wonder everybody likes me.
Extension: Ask the students to complete the story in their groups. Appoint one
representative in each group who will read out their version to the class
Passage: 2
Ravidas had no interest in material things. He was interested in matters
related to the spirit. He wanted to gain spiritual knowledge .he was in
search of some spiritual teacher who could show him the right path.
Soon he found himself at the feet of Swami Ramananda who took him
as his disciple.
Listening Activity- 2 :
PICTURE DICTATION
EXAMPLE:- This is just a skeleton description , you can make it
more descriptive by adding lots of adjectives such as colors
,shapes etc, or you can simplify it even more for slow learners if
necessary.
INSTRUCTIONS:
Teacher will speak loudly and ask learners to draw the picture
.Dont show picture to the learners and start giving them
description.
In the middle of the picture there is a hut with tiled roof.
It has a door and two windows.
2
 On the roof of the hut there is a chimney.
On the top right hand side of the picture there is a big sun .
Beside the house there is a big tree
In front of hut three children are playing football
In front of the house there is a little garden path with grass
and plants
On the left side of hut there is a park and boy is watering the
plants
Park is having a hedge made of wood
On the top left there are three clouds together overlapping
each other and two birds are flying under these clouds
On the right hand side of the hut there is a temple with a flag
on its top
There are some big stones in front of the temple.

PICTURE DICTATION: Listen and draw

3
LEFT MIDDLE RIGHT

TOP

BOTTOM

CREATE YOUR PICTURE HERE ITS YOUR PICTURE FRAME

Listening Activity- 3:
MOVING DICTATION
Teacher reads out a text the student write a sentence and
then pass their exercise book to another student who write
the next sentence-------and so on.las student will read it
aloud for the whole class.

4
RUNNING DICTATION

Place text on walls text around the room now divide the
learners in group of three to four and they have to take
turns as to remember as much as of the text in one
minute , then return back and dictate it to the writer
o RUNNER :- Go to the text memorize and retell to the
writer.

o WRITER: Writes down the text what runner tells or

speaks
o ARTIST: - Draw sentence in detail or color the target
words.
o EDITOR: Checks over work and encourage the group.
NOTE Jobs rotate after each sentence or turn

Listening Activity- 4:
GUIDED DICTATION CUM ONE CHANCE DICTATION
choose any paragraph from the text book. make it a cloze or
gap fill activity.e.g.it was Shrawan Pitri Bhakti Natak aa play
about Shravanas devotion to his parents read it with deep
interests

ACTIVITY (ONE CHANCE)

It was------------------- ----------------- ----------------a--------------
--about----------------devotion to his--------------.I-----------------
---it with deep interests.
INSTRUTIONS: you can target anything may it be noun,
verbs, and adjectives------------------your choice?

5
NOTE: In this listening activity instead of reading the text
several times the teacher has to read it only once in short
and simple sentences or phrases. If the learners know that it
will be read only once, it provides a challenge for them to
pay attention and listen to it attentively.

SPEAKING ACTIVITY: 1:

WALK & TALK: in this activity learners form to circles with

a person in the inner circle being paired with the person in
the outer circle.
They have a sheet of numbers and sentences and words.
The do not show their sheets to each other
The one with the (x) to next number begins speaking. The
learner with the sentence says it and the other learner
provides the word. They decide if the sentence and the word
refer to the same thing or different things
LEARNER A LEARNER B
1X it usually has four legs 1-a chair
2-a boat 2 -it flies through the air
3x it has one eye 3- a needle
4-a book 4x we can read it

SPEAKING ACTIVITY: 2:

ROLE PLAY:-simple role pay activity can be conducted by

the teacher in the class room on any topic---e.g. environment
good habits or any other topic with simple dialogue.

6
SPEAKING ACTIVITY: 3:
INFORMATION GAP ACTIVITY (PEER DICTATION)

INSTRUCTIONS:-
Select any paragraph from the text book.
Make it a gap exercise.
Make pairs of learners and mark them A and B.
Give them their respective slip and ask them to sit back
to back.
Dont show your slip to your partner.
Student A will start speaking activity by asking answer
to given blank, now they will speak mutually to find
answers in their respective sheet

7
Text taken from (English reader VIII) on page-50

STUDENT A
------------------- took --------------- --------------------
home-------------------began to read it. .He-----------
----------that robots are machines---------------------
--to work-------------------human-------------------.

STUDENT B
Robin-----------------the book and- -------------to
read it. he learnt that robots are------------------
designed to work like-----------------------beings.

SPEAKING ACTIVITY: 4:-

COMPARISON OF TWO PICTURES:-
Teacher will give two pictures to learners
Learners will work in pairs.
Dont show your picture to your partner.

8
PICTURE A

PICTURE -B

9
Look at your picture. Student As picture is different. Talk about
your picture and find the differences. Dont show your picture to
student A

10
NOTE:- Teacher can integrate grammar part in speaking activity
EXAMPLE:- (Present continuous tense)
PICTURE A
A boy is standing.
Birds are flying.
PICTURE-B
A girl is standing.
Birds are sitting.
SPEAKING ACTIVITY: 5:-

TEACHING SONGS OR SHORT POEMS:- singing will help them to

improve their fluency and pronunciation.

11