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Quick-Start Guide To Teaching Listening In The Classroom

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Listening usually requires focus and attention. It is a skill that some students need to work at harder than others. Students who have difficulty concentrating are typically poor listeners. In this case, they need to focus more on developing their listening skills. The role of the teachers comes...
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The 3 Stages Of Teaching Any Listening Activity

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Presenting a listening activity goes in three stages. In each stage there are some steps that should be followed: Stage #1. Pre-Listening:  Prepare students for the listening activity by: 1- Introduce the topic of listening:  Say the title of the topic. 2- Activate students’ existing knowledge:  Lead a...
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Five Tasks To Test Your Students’ Listening

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1. Number the jumbled words as you hear them: Don’t be restricted to nouns only, include adjectives as well. Use content words rather than form words (i.e. no prepositions, conjunctions or articles). You might include 1 or 2 words that do not spell as they sound, like ‘eight’...
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