Listening Comprehension

Accessing information from spoken texts may be through radio, television, internet, multimedia, or a lecture.

Pupils should be exposed to a variety of spoken genres, registers, accents, and contexts.

Learners should be able to use informal spoken language to interact effectively in English in different social contexts, with people from varied linguistic and cultural backgrounds.

To help them do this, learners should listen to spoken texts from a wide range of digital media and to a variety of accents used in the spoken English language.

Grades and main subjects in curriculum

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Students activities

What's Your Name?

This lesson focuses on developing listening skills based around the topic of ‘names’

The Volcano

Pupils listen to a podcast and jot down notes about a volcano in Iceland. Pupils share the information they learned with the rest of the class.

Camping Under the Stars

Pupils discuss what is needed for a camping trip, listen to a conversation, and then do the exercises. They discuss a camping trip they took

A Fun Day

Pupils discuss what they like doing when they are not at school. After listening to the conversation, they do the exercises and then discuss a fun outing they had with their family or friends.

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Tips for Teachers

Authentic Texts

Fred Gordon explores the use of authentic texts with low-level learners

Listening Comprehension Through Music

Ideas for organizing lessons around songs to improve listening comprehension skills.

TEFL Class Instruction

How to teach listening skills in the ESL classroom

Teaching Active Listening

Pre and post listening activities.

Teaching a Listening Lesson

The stages of an effective listening comprehension lesson.

Gist and Detail

How to teach pupils the difference between the main events in the dialogue and the detail...

On Teaching

The difference between teachers and educators

"Education is life itself" - John Dewey.

Videos

The Girl Who Helped Discover Dinosaurs

The story of the young fossil hunter Mary Anning - told in an animation made using sand from the beach where she lived and worked..