prepare your students for real world listening

Prepare your students

for real world listening

by Alexandra Butnaru, teacher @Twinkle Star

The proce

ss

1. Receiving

2. Understandi

ng

3. Rememberin

g4. Evaluating

5. Responding

Barriers “And now… an original recording of Virginia Woolf”

“Can you ask the other children to be quiet?”

“They’re speaking too fast”

“I didn’t understand.”

“Er…”

“Yes. No? No.”

key practices in the pre-listening stage

* From Objective KET Student’s Book, CUP

Jim Scrivener says …Short recordings

Play it as many times as necessary

Let students discuss answers together

Avoid direct correction

“Ignore” the strongest students

Get students to agree

Play bits of the recording

Help when they’re stuck

Let students decide

Don’t cheat

Adapt tasks to students’ level

Hint #1

Why?

create interest*pictures

*videos

*recordings

*keywords

*hangman

Listen AND Watch Step 1 – audio only

Step 2 – play video

Hint #2

Word or

phrase+

picture

definition

gap fill sound

miming

translation

Pronunciation

enables comprehe

sion

Word stress

Rhythm

Intonation

do you understa

nd englishes

?

http://www.elllo.org/english/Mixer126/T149-

Admire.htm

Teach patienceand respect

Thank you!

Alexandra Butnaru Teacher @ Twinkle Star alexandrabutnaru@yahoo.com www.slideshare.net/AlexandraButnaru1