ISL 2

ACTIVITIES AND TECHNIQUES FOR TEACHING LISTENING COMPREHENSION

1) Warm-up Activity: Ask students, "What do you do every day? 2) Conversation : Two people having a conversation about their daily life. Students must answer true or false questions based on the previous listening activity.

3) Open-ended Listening/Speaking Activity: Allows students to have the freedom to practice listening comprehension and speaking, such as interviewing other members in the class about their daily life and asking for further information. This is an example of activities that build on each other and share the same objective. Communication and listening comprehension should begin with what students already know so that they can build on their existing knowledge and skills with activities designed on the same principle.

 4) Fill in the missing word listening activity : set a pair work activity where student A and student B have the same worksheet where some information items are missing. The students must ask each other for the missing words in a song. That way, the students have to practice effective communication by accurately forming the correct question necessary to find out the missing word from their partner. To confirm that their answer is correct, the students then listen to the song.

5) Long listening activity to assign students in different comprehension question : After listening to the activity and taking notes to answer questions, students then swap information to complete the "whole class chart," correlating what each student has heard to arrive at the big picture. If there are any questions that remain unanswered during the first or second hearing, and following the information swap activity, the whole class can listen to the tape again. The students will then try to find the answer to the questions that have not been previously understood, rather than the teacher providing the answers straight away. These techniques involve group work and problem solving. They also instigate further communication and facilitate listening comprehension development.

6) Listening and Performing Actions and Operations : Drawing a picture, figure, or design. Performing hand or body movements as in songs and games. operating a piece of equipment, such as a camera, a recorder, a microwave oven, a pencil sharpener.

7) Listening and Transferring Information : listening and summarizing the gist of a short story, report, or talk. listening to a talk or lecture and taking notes. listening to a "how to" talk and writing an outline of the steps in a sequence (e.g.,how to cook something, how to run a piece of equipment, how to play a game).

8) Listening and Solving Problems riddles, logic puzzles, intellectual problemsolving. word games in which the answers must be derived from verbal clues. number games and oral story arithmetic problems. asking questions in order to identify something.