Teaching Listening and

Speaking
LISTENING
HOW TO TEACH
LISTENING
•Listening exercises
have to help build Ss
confidence.
• Contextualized
activities
•Recognize the goals
of listening
comprehension
•Reporting
 STRATEGIES FOR
LISTENING

How to work with listening

comprehension activities?
New theories recommend teachers of
EFL to work listening comprehension
activities following this three stages:

1.- Before / Pre -listening period.

2.- While / During listening period.

3.- After / Consolidation listening

period.
Before/Pre-listening
period.

Use these activities to prepare your students for the topics and
content they are going to listen to.
During pre-listening the teacher may:
1. Assess students' background knowledge of the topic
and linguistic content of the text
2. Provide students with the background knowledge
necessary for their comprehension of the listening
passage or activate the existing knowledge that the
students have about the subject.
 While /During listening
period

Keep
. these points in mind when planning activities, we present you
some tips for this:while-listenining

1.- If students are about to complete a written task during

or immediately after listening, allow them to read through
it before listening.
2.- Keep writing to a minimum during listening.
3.- Organize activities so that they guide listeners through
the text.
4.- Use questions to focus students' attention on the
elements of the text crucial to comprehension of the whole.
5.- Use predicting to encourage students to monitor their
comprehension as they listen.
6.- Give immediate feedback whenever possible.
 After consolidation
Listening period
Students need to act upon what they have heard to clarify meaning
and extend their thinking. Well-planned post- listening activities
are just as important as those before and during. Some examples
follow:
• Students may summarise the oral text, in writing,
or as an outline.
• In addition to the traditional outline format, students
could use time lines, flow charts, ladders, circles,
diagrams, webs, or maps. 
• Listen and sing the song
• Create and act out the dialogue
• Mime the actions
After consolidation
Listening period

-Change the verses/words of a song/dialogue and

sing or act it out
- Write down a summary of the listening.
- Discuss about the topic of the listening
- Draw an object that best represents the topic of the
listening
 Developing Listening Skills

Act. 2 Conversation: Being late at work

Objective: To listen for specific information. Prepare
a pre listening task.
Act. 3 Telephone Conversation: Calling a friend
Objective To listen for specific information. Prepare
a while listening task.
Act 4 Telephone Conversation. Making a hotel
Reservation
Objective : To listen for general understanding
.Prepare a Post listening activity
SPEAKING
HOW TO TEACH
SPEAKING

•Perform activities that

promote speaking.
•Interviews
•Discussions
•Role Plays
•Reporting
•Conversations/Debates
 ACTIVITY # 1
ACTIVITIES TO PROMOTE SPEAKING.

INTERVIEW AN INTERESTING
PERSONALITY
 ACTIVITY # 2
ACTIVITIES TO PROMOTE SPEAKING.

LOVE ADVISER
 ACTIVITY # 2
LETTER 1

Will marriage bring love?

Dear Love adviser,

I recently broke up with a man I loved and he married another

girl. I have been going out with someone else ever since. He´s
29 and I´m 26 . Now he has asked me to marry him and I
suppose I would be mad to refuse. But I don´t love him, through
I´m fond of him. I live in a small village so I´m unlikely to get
another chance. I don´t want to be left on the shelf. My mother
says love grows if you marry someone who is good to you. Do
you think she´s right?

Miss P.J., Suffolk

 ACTIVITY # 3
ACTIVITIES TO PROMOTE SPEAKING.

TELEPHONING
 ACTIVITY # 3
SITUATION # 1

You are Gene/Jean.

You are studying for an important exam next week and are
just struggling with a difficult book. When you think that you
have just worked out what one chapter means the phone ring.
You know you have to go back to your book quickly so as not
to forget what you worked out.
 ACTIVITY # 3
SITUATION # 2

You are Carolina.

You are in a hurry because you are going out in half an hour
and want t wash and dry your hair beforehand. Your phone
rings.
Do you • 1. We should correct students directly all of the time if we are
agree or to improve accuracy.
disagree • 2. You should not adapt the content of a textbook. It is always
? best to stick to the book.
• 3. In order to improve fluency, we should get students to speak
T faster.
H • 4. Asking Ss open-ended questions can be better than having
them answer only closed-ended ones.
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• 5. We should emphasize communicative activities that get
N students to use a particular language form or structure
unconsciously.
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• 6. Writing parts of statements on the board does not really help
develop fluency.
• 7. We should avoid error correction as much as possible. Our
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students speaking skills will get better on their own over time.
B • 8. If a student does not answer your question quickly, you
O should provide some of the answer yourself.
• 9. Teacher Talk Time is always something we should avoid.
U • 10. Student motivation does not influence the development of
T speaking skills directly.
 Do you know this character?
What is his name?
Why is he so famous?
Who is she? Is she in love with him?
 Listening Speaking Activity
Bluto- Olivia Oyl- Popeye POPEYE FOR A PRESIDENT Activity Based
on a Video
• Popeye and Bluto are both
running for president.
Which candidate will be
able to impress her the
most and earn her precious
vote?
 Listening Speaking Activity
Questions
Popeye for President • What do the kiddies get for
voting popeye in the poll?
• What does the opposite
faction give out for free on
the other hand?
• How do you get an extra
cigar ?
• What does Popeye want
from Miss oyl ? Why ?
 Listening Speaking Activity
Questions
Popeye for President • Why cant Olivia Oyl go to
the polls?
• What’s the first chore Olivia
Oyl needs to do?
• What’s the second chore
Olivia Oyl needs to get
done?
• What the third chore she is
asking to be done?
• Who will probably win the
election?
 Listening Speaking Activity
Questions
Popeye for President • What do the kiddies get for voting
Popeye in the poll?
- Free Ice cream for all kids
• What does the opposite faction give
out for free on the other hand?
- Bluto offered free cigars.
• How do you get an extra cigar ?
- Extra cigar for each and every vote
• What does Popeye want from Miss
Oyl ? Why ?
- He would like her to vote him for
president. He has a tie with Bluto.
 Listening Speaking Activity
Check your answers

• Why cant Olivia Oyl go to the polls?

Popeye for President
- She has a lot of work to do
• What’s the first chore Olivia Oyl needs
to do?
- She needs to get the wood all chopped
for the winter
• Whats the second chore Olivia Oyl
needs to get done?
- The fields still need plowing
• What the third chore she is asking to be
done?
- That hay must be put in the hay loft