How to create a listening lesson?
Do you think listening is important
or not?
Why?
Among four basic skills of English,
listening occupies the first place.
45%
_______ is devoted to listening.
30% is devoted to speaking.
_______
16% is devoted to reading.
_______
9% is devoted to writing.
_______
Are there any problems to teach
listening? What are they?
COMMON LISTENING PROBLEMS
ⅰ. Speaker factors
ⅱ. Text factors
ⅲ. Students factors
Speaker Factors
◆ Too
fast.
◆ Use too many unfamiliar words.
◆ Accents are unfamiliar (also fluency,
standard, non-standard)
◆ Stress, rhythm, tone, etc
Text Factors
◆
Too long sentences
◆ Text types- news, radio, lectures
◆ Recordings are not always clear and
are difficult to follow
Students Factors
◆ Students are lack of cultural or background
knowledge- ability to guess the meaning of
unfamiliar terms.
◆ Motivation, interests
Good method in teaching listening
Three Stages Method:

Pre-listening stage

While-listening stage

Post-listening stage
Pre- listening
1. What is pre-listening?
2. What do you often do before
listening?
3. What is the purpose of
pre-listening?
Purpose of pre-listening
Set context
Create motivation
Pre-listening aims to make listening more
meaningful and effective so that students
can be successful in their listening in the
classroom.
What are the common
pre-listening activities?
Pre-listening Activities
Predicting
Brainstorming
Activity 1.
Predicting
Aim: Students try to guess key
information contained in the
recording before they listen.
1.Using pictures for prediction
The teacher can use pictures to
activate students’ knowledge.
Activity:
Activity:
T: Where are they? What are they
doing? What is the relationship
between them?
2. Using vocabulary for
prediction
Instruction: You are going to listen to
a dialogue on “Environment”.
Which of these words do you think
you will hear in the dialogue?
It may be in the
listening dialogue
roses
park
detective
environment
recycle
prince
chocolate
It probably isn’t
in the dialogue
Pre-listening Activities
Predicting
Brainstorming
pictures
vocabulary
How useful is Activity 1 as a technique?
Activity 2: Brainstorming
Aim: This activity is to stimulate students’
knowledge that they have known
4. Using Mind map for brainstorming
Instruction:
You will hear a conversation about “I am
on a diet to lose weight.” Before you do,
discuss with your partner the ways of
losing your weight, or your experiences
with it etc.
Mind map
on a diet
Using “T” or “F” for brainstorming
You are going to listen to an article about
“turtles”. How much do you already know
about turtles? Read the following
statements and write “T” if the statement is
true. “F” if it is false.
F Turtles are mammals.
1. ___
F They have 1 pair of lungs and soft shells.
2. ___
T They have no teeth.
3. ___
T They have good hearing and poor eyesight.
4. ___
5. ___
F Turtles can go without food.
T Turtles can make sounds.
6. ___
Pre-listening Activities
Predicting
Brainstorming
Mind map
“T”or “F”
How useful is Activity 2 as a technique?
Pre-listening Activities
Predicting
pictures
vocabulary
Brainstorming
Mind map
“T”or “F”
Good pre-listening activities
can establish a bridge through
to while-listening stage.
Instruction : Reorder the words
1 rebltou
2 alwls
3 dlrdea
4 edln
5 itpna
6 arlvolse
7 efrg
8 acfluer
9 losahs
10 onso
=_______
=_______
=_______
=_______
=_______
=_______
=_______
=_______
=_______
=_______
1 rebltou
2 alwls
3 dlrdea
4 edln
5 itpna
6 arlvolse
7 efrg
8 acfluer
9 losahs
10 onso
= trouble
= walls
=ladder
= lend
= paint
=overalls
=fret
=careful
=splash
=soon
Welcome
While-Listening
Introduction
What is while-listening?
This stage is to help the
learners understand the
text.
While-listening activities
relate directly to the text,
and students do them
during or immediately after
the time they are listening.
What if the listening
materials are too hard for
students to understand?
Should a recording be played
over and over again in the
while-listening stage?
Why ?
How do you design tasks?
It is best to give very simple tasks the
first time the learners hear a recording,
and increasingly difficult ones the
second or third times.
This is much better than giving them a
single, complex task from the start
and playing the text over and over
again and eventually complete most
of the task.
What activities do you
often use during whilelistening stage?
Activity 1- Spotting Mistakes
The students react by
knocking, coughing or
underlining when they hear a
mistake.
listen to a passage about
snowflakes. Some of the words
given are wrong.
Listen to the tape for twice. For the
first time, knock on the desk every
time you hear a mistake. For the
second time, please correct the
mistakes.
Keys
 fall
– falling
 losing
– lost
 is
– was
 lives
– lived
 teaches
– taught
 read
– reading
 interesting – interested
 studied
– was studying
You can design this activity for
certain purposes, such as
emphasizing verbs in different
tenses, comparative and
superlative degrees, words
with similar phonetic sounds
and so on.
Activity 2
Putting pictures in order
Listen to part of a story
called Inside the Pyramid
and put the pictures in the
right order.
1
2
4
5
3
Activity 3
True or False
Listen to the introduction of
Disneyland World and tell
whether the sentences are
right or wrong.
Stopping and Asking
 Introduction
Stop whenever it seems appropriate
and ask the students what they think
is going to happen next.
You can also ask them what they
would do if they were in that situation.
Example
Listen and tick
Listen and sequence
Some post-listening activities are
extensions of the work done at the
pre-listening and while-listening
stages and some relate only
loosely to the listening text itself.
1.Speaking activity
a. Group discussion
Based on the listening text about
“the hobby of reading”, what is a proper postlistening activity?
Students work in group of four to
discuss the advantages and
disadvantages of over-reading.
b.Giving personal opinion
Based on the listening text about “Friendship”
and “Birthday party”, what is a proper post
listening activity?
Talk about your own best friends
or your most memorable birthday
Parties.
c. Role-play
Based on the listening text about “Ordering
at a restaurant”, what is a proper post
listening activity?
Students work in groups of four, one
waiter and a group of three friends at
a table. They should role-play the
ordering of the dessert, using the menu
in the book.
2.Reading activity
Based on the listening text about “Forest
Fires”, what is a proper post listening
activity?
Read the following text about “Home
Fires” and choose the best answer.
3.Writing activity
a. Summary completion
Based on the listening passage about “The
Asian Games Report”,
Teachers may ask students to
deal with incomplete summary of it.
b. Writing reflection
Based on the listening text about “Spring School--one voluntary organization, ”, what is a proper
post-listening activity?
Write a letter to this organization to
become its official member. In the letter,
you should point out what you have already
known about the organization and clarify the
reasons for your choice..