Listening activities
The basics
Listening Activities
Three stages
1.
Pre listening
 Activate background knowledge
 Generate enthusiasm
2.
During listening
 Active listening
3.
Post listening
 Clarify, Extend, Refine
Examples of pre-Listening activities
 You, the teacher listens to/views the text ahead of time :)
 Act like this is really interesting and valuable
 Explain Key Vocab.
 Explain/Discuss relevant Cultural Information
 Tips about what to listen for
 Provide comprehension questions ahead of time.
 Show a picture related to the text and ask questions
 Use a speaking/writing question to help students think about the topic “Ask a
neighbor, Imagina que eres granjero y no hay suficiente lluvia, ¿Qué
harías?”
 What else?
During Listening Activities
 Give students a purpose or goal
eg. Averigua como se siente el cantante hacía su amor.
 Match listening activity to students’ skill level
 Pay attention to cognates.
While listening to the song, try to figure out how to say these
words…..
 Listen for meaning i.e. gist
 Listen twice, once quickly, once closely
 Identify as many words as you can
 Identify three words or phrases where you here the singer’s regional
accent.
 Everyone SINGS ALONG!!!!! No way dude!
Post Listening Activities
 Global activities
 Write a brief summary of the text/story/article.
 Explain to your partner in your own words what the story was about.
 What do you think the author’s opinion was of X and why?
Post Listening Activities
 Specific information activities (to focus on the details of the text)
 Multiple choice/short answer quiz/questions
¿Dónde estaba Carlos cuando su novia llamó?
 Opinion- ¿Porqué mastican las hojas de coca en los Andes?
Post Listening Activities
 Linguistic and cultural activities (use text for lang. and culture learning)
 Ask students to create a dialogue or role play based on two of the
characters from the text.
 Ask students to write a continuation of the story.
 Ask questions and generate discussion based on some of the cultural topics
presented in the reading.
 What else????
 ¿Qué hay en esta foto?
 ¿Has visitado un lugar así?
 Imagina que estás en un muelle y un ser querido parte para un viaje en
barco.
¿Qué harías?