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Listening activities for elementary and intermediate levels

Urs Kalberer, ETAS Zofingen, 20 January 2019

▪ No record ▪ Real time (high demand for storing information in the memory) ▪ No control of speech rate ▪ Variability (accents, register) ▪ No gaps between words

ɪ

…

ɪ

t

• m
• r

r

• w

becaus e bird t r

• u

b l e m

• t

h e r hot sing n e v e r

w

• n

d e r

m

• n

e y a f t e r how night

you

hate late

so

tear love car

run

hill

• v

e r

song

g i r l

• Listeners listen to a story
• After 50 words teacher pauses and

learners guess the next word.

• Word should be easy to guess.
• After guesses the teacher gives the

answer.

from sea

holiday

car to hotel food see drive

• Watching TV
• Listening radio
• Direct interaction
• Speech live
• Telephone to a friend
• Storytelling
• Telephone to a business partner

Watching TV 6 Listening radio 7 Direct interaction 1 Speech live 5 Telephone to a friend 2 Story telling 4 Telephone to a business partner 3 Criteria used for ranking the above tasks

• Visibility
• Possibility to intervene in visual transaction
• Possibility to intervene in aural transaction
• Factor of familiarity
• Monologue or dialogue.