Listening activities for elementary and intermediate levels Urs - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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

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• 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 holiday sea 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.