Didaktika 4A - AJ

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Teaching Listening YL

Key words:

Teaching/practicing listening
real-life listening, focused and casual listening (intensive and extensive listening)
pre-/during/post- listening activities,
first listening - listen for GIST, second listening - listen for SPECIFIC information

activities: listen and do the actions, listen and point, listen and repeat, listen and draw, listen and sing along


Types of listening exercises:


"Listen and do" activities:
-- moving about: TPR
-- Simon says
--raise your hand (when they hear a certain sound or a word, or you can whisper numbers and they put up hands when you miss out a number)
-- magic suitcase (instructions: point at, touch, take, give it to.., put it.., then take out something  (red, new, old, beautiful, useful, dirty, long, hard, soft, funny, made of wood, plastic, metal, paper, glass, cloth, we can play with etc.)
-- write down the number of the one you hear – before children start writing:
    picture cards, numbers next to them, blue-tack on the board, numbers next to them
--mime stories
--drawing  (useful for checking object vocabulary, prepositions, colours, numbers, not for actions :drawing people doing st. is difficult for most of us.
-- making models + giving instructions – washing line
-- listening grid
-- dictation (there are many alternatives of dictations)  running dictation, mutual dictation...

Listening for information
--identifying exercises 
--listen for the mistake ( correct text and wrong picture or vice versa)
-- putting things in order
-- questionnaires
--listen and colour  any picture from children’s workbook and make it into a language  activity:  (the girl’s trousers are brown, she’s wearing a yellow sweater)

”Listen and repeat” activities:
-- rhymes (children love rhymes, repeat them again and again, traditional and modern rhymes)  Five little elephants – action rhymes
-- songs:  action songs
-- listening to stories  difference between reading a story and telling a story.
    Wonderful stories for telling: Little Red Riding Hood, Goldilocks

Super simple songs - weblink

Super Simple - Kids songs, shows, and free resources

Nursery rhymes - weblink

Dreamhouse: Nursery: Bookcase: Mother Goose: Alphabetical Index (umich.edu)

Song and rhymes - weblink

Singing nursery rhyme lyrics with babies and children | Words for Life

Action songs - youtube channel

(6) Action Songs for Kids - YouTube