Listening
Classroom
Resources
Posters
Skit
Quiz for Early Stage 1 and Stage 1
Quiz for Stage 2 and Stage 3
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Put your hands in your lap
Don’t forget your thinking cap
Keep your eyes looking straight
Keep your ears listening mate!
Let your lips go up and down
Be sure not to make a sound
Listening is really fun
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So pay attention everyone!
Not left out
Happy
Excited
Worthwhile
Want to share
Great
Excellent
Glad
Funny
Good
Welcome
Special
Unhappy
Angry
Sad
Annoyed
Stressed
Scared
Lonely
Hurt
Disappointed
Worried
Ignored
Embarrassed
Left Out
Annoyed
Not liked
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Better listeners
don’t always have
better hearing
Is Not
Inherited
Listener should be
concentrating.
Speaker should be
thinking
In group
situations
not everyone
hears the
same thing
Is
Important
Involves whole
body:
-Eye Contact
-Standing/ sitting
still
-Not talking over the
speaker
-Thinking about
what the speaker is
saying
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Skit for teaching good listening
The following skits can be used as an activity to help student’s understand the
feelings and attitudes associated with good and bad listening.
Instructions
Feelings about good and bad listeners should be discussed in small groups prior
to this activity.
Small groups are given a skit ‘role’ in which their group must organize and
present back to the class. This may be a good, bad or mixed skit (see skit roles
provided). The class should discuss what has happened in each skit and how it
would make the speaker feel and the consequences of the particular skit
situation.
Skit Roles
 Good skit
Speaker- tell the listeners something you did on the week end
Listeners

Bad skit
- Make sure you are not talking
-You are sitting still
- Have eye contact with the speaker
- Putting hands up for questions
- Waiting you turn to talk
Speaker
- Tell the listeners something you did on the weekend.
-Ask person 5 a question about what you have just told
Person 1
- Bad listening
- Figet- Rock on chair
- Get off chair and walk around a table then back to your
Person 2
-
Person 3
- Bad listening
- Try and talk to person 2
- Call out across room
them
chair
Bad listening
Look out the window. Look around the classroom
Avoid all eye contact
Don’t talk to person 3
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
Person 4
- Bad listening
- When the speaker says something talk about another topic
Person 5
- Bad listening
- Don’t answer the question the speaker asks you
Mixed skit
Speaker
-Tell the listeners something you did on the weekend.
Person 1
- Sit on your chair backwards
Person 2
- Interrupt speaker
Person 3, 4 & 5 -
Listen
Eye contact
Sitting still
No talking
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Listening Quiz
Early stage 1 and stage 1
1. Who thinks babies just know how to listen, they don’t need to be taught?
2. Who thinks you need energy to listen?
3. Who thinks your listening needs to be switched on, like a light switch,
when someone is talking to you?
4. Who thinks once you learn to listen, you need to concentrate?
5. Do you think listening is an important skill?
6. I’m going to say 5 things, and I want you to put your hand up if you think
it’s important when listening:
a. Looking with your eyes
b. Hands in lap
c. Listening with your feet
d. Lips closed
e. Brain not learning
7. Who thinks your class listens well when the teacher is talking?
8. Who thinks your class listens well when other students are talking?
9. Who thinks you could be better at using the 5 L’s in class?
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Listening Quiz
Stages 2 and 3
Write ‘yes’ or ‘no’ for each question
1. Babies just know how to listen, they don’t need to be taught?
2. You need energy to listen?
3. Your listening needs to be switched on when someone is talking to you?
4. Once you learn to listen, you still need to concentrate?
5. Listening is an important skill?
6. As your reading and your language skills improve does your listening
improve?
7. The speaker and listener are both responsible for communication?
8. If there is a group of people listening to the speaker, they will all receive
the same message?
9. Better listeners have better hearing?
10. Listening and talking in a group is different to listening and talking to one
person?
11. Listening involves eye contact, not fidgeting, not talking over the speaker
and thinking.
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