Listening Activities

As you know, you can do listening activities to supplement the work you are doing in your English class. Listening Activities are really simple and don’t take so much time because technology is unbelievable and you can find many videos ,songs, games that you can download from internet and use it in class or send WebPages to your  students as  a homework to practice  online. But the most important thing you should know is that listening activities are really important to develop the listening skill of students.

Listening activities with songs…

In class, you as a teacher should play a song with specific vocabulary that students are recently learning, it could be verbs and so on. Then, you have to give them a paper with the song lyrics and spaces in blank to complete the specific vocabulary you need them to get and understand from the song. For example, let’s use the song ‘’ALWAYS (Bon Jovi)’’

Well, in this case is online, so you can copy the lyrics into a paper to give  students in class or also you can just give them the webpage to exercise as  a  homweork.

Listening activities with videos…

In class, you can play a video. It could be authentic or not it’s your decision according to the level of your students or other facts. Well, you have to play a video; for example, a tv comercial of two people talking about any topic, then you have to make students questions such us…what are they talking about? , what does the man think? And so on, so that, students will be able to answer you, and you will be able to evaluate if  students are understanding what you want  to teach them.Or other  way could be to send the video to their e-mails and type the questions in order that students aswer and send you the e-mail back.

Reflection..

I think that listening activities are really helpful to develop students skills not also to understand but also to learn new vocabulary maybe..or to know how to use any word and many things more. In my opinion Its better  to make speaking activities in class because you as  a  teacher  will be able to check if they  are  really working otherwise if you send it  as  a homework on line  you won’t be able to know  who is working and who is really understanding or to answer students doubts.