An interactive approach to teaching listening

This presentation offers suggestions on how to make the teaching of English listening more interactive for students. The focus is on Korean students learning EFL. The intended audience is Korean public school teachers.

1. [email protected] An Interactive Approach to Teaching English (Listening)

2. Starting Your Class Songs & Videos Learner Input Passive to Active

3. Four Corners Eight Squares Dictation

4. A total physical response ( TPR ) activity Good ‘first day’ activity Can be teacher- or leaner-led What is it?

5. Have students stand up Assign a category to each corner of the room Students move to the appropriate corner How is it done?

6. Favorite season Number of siblings Birthdays Blood type Student created For example

7. Quick/easy Minimal preparation time Physical movement Ice breaking Similarities/differences Fun Why is it good?

8. Let’s try it, shall we?

9. Four Corners Eight Squares Dictation

10. Listening/drawing/writing activity Good ‘first day’ activity Can be teacher- or leaner-led What is it?

11. Give each student a blank piece of paper Ask students to fold the paper in half, three times Have students open the paper and number the squares How is it done?

12. Call out instructions about what to draw or write in each square How is it done?

13. In square number 3, write your birthday. To the left of your birthday, write your telephone number Two boxes down from your phone number, write… For example

14. Quick/easy Minimal preparation time Ice breaking Similarities/differences Teaches prepositions and prepositional phrases Fun Why is it good?

15. Four Corners Eight Squares Dictation

16. The Hidden Zoo So Many Cats In between Variations

17. We can go at six o’clock. It’s nice to do good deeds. Take soap and a towel. Most rich people wear fancy clothes. You can keep the watch or sell it. The Hidden Zoo

18. We can go at six o’clock. It’s nice to do g ood deeds. Take soa p and a towel. M ost rich people wear fancy clothes. You can keep the watc h or se ll it. The Hidden Zoo

19. So Many Cats

20. So Many Cats

21. So Many Cats

22. Honey Younger Bend In between

23. Hone __ __ y Young __ __ er Be __ __ nd In between

24. Hone S _ T _ y Young S _ T _ er Be H _ I _ nd In between

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27. Using Songs Traditional Method

28. Using Songs Contemporary Method

29. Using Songs Traditional Method

30. Using Songs Traditional Method

31. Using Videos Traditional Method

32. Using Videos Contemporary Method

33. Using Videos Contemporary Method

34. Using Videos Variation

35. Let’s listen and watch Red Team : Room 214 (Watch) Black Team: Room 407 (Listen)

36. Let’s hear it!

37. Let’s watch it!

38. Make a partner. One listener with one watcher

39. I. Don’t you mean…? II. Listening Station Dictation III. How many people live there? IV. Nine Squares

40. Listening Speaking Reading Writing I. Don’t you mean…?

41. Don’t you mean…?

42. Don’t you mean…? Whole class Small group Hot seat

43. Don’t you mean…?

44. Combines student and teacher input Collaborative Similar to ‘running dictation’ Complicated preparation II. Listening Station Dictation

45. A B D C D C A B II. Listening Station Dictation

46. II. Listening Station Dictation

47. II. Listening Station Dictation

48. II. Listening Station Dictation

49. II. Listening Station Dictation

50. II. Listening Station Dictation

51. II. Listening Station Dictation

52. II. Listening Station Dictation

53. II. Listening Station Dictation

54. II. Listening Station Dictation

55. Numbers Real-world material Ancillary learning: Populations Nations Flags Capitals

56. III. How many people live there?

57. Numbers

58. III. How many people live there? London 7,174,850 Rome 2,542,420 Tokyo 8,173,940 Japan 127,474,615 U.K. 60,2787,002 Italy 59,115,613

59. Learners listen and recreate the diagrams that have been explained to them Can be teacher-led or learner-led (or both) IV. Nine Squares

60. IV. Nine Squares

61. IV. Nine Squares

62. Have learners close their books

63. Incorporate “Four Corners” (or some other TPR activity) into Listening Activities (after AND during listening)

64. Dictate questions or other information (such as word banks) in advance

65. Traditional Listening

66. Contemporary Listening

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