Listening activities for elementary and intermediate levels
Transcript of Listening activities for elementary and intermediate levels
Listening activities for elementary and intermediate levels
Urs Kalberer, ETAS Zofingen, 20 January 2019
▪ No record▪ Real time (high demand for storing information
in the memory)▪ No control of speech rate▪ Variability (accents, register)▪ No gaps between words
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…
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tomorrow
because bird
trouble
mother
hotsingnever
wonder
money
after
how
night
you
hate
late
so
tearlove
car run
hill
over
song
girl
• Listeners listen to a story• After 50 words teacher pauses and
learners guess the next word.• Word should be easy to guess.• After guesses the teacher gives the
answer.
from sea holiday
car to hotel
food see drive
• Watching TV• Listening radio• Direct interaction• Speech live• Telephone to a friend• Storytelling• Telephone to a business partner
Watching TV 6Listening radio 7Direct interaction 1Speech live 5Telephone to a friend 2Story telling 4Telephone to a business partner 3
Criteria used for ranking the above tasks
•Visibility•Possibility to intervene in visual transaction•Possibility to intervene in aural transaction•Factor of familiarity•Monologue or dialogue.