What are While-Listening Activities?
While-Listening Activities: You needed to do somePre-Listening Tasks in order to prepare your students before this stage of a listening lesson. During-Listening tasks are a series of activities that a learner does while listening to a passage in order to show their understanding of what was heard of.
Well-designed activities can help students to:
- Identify what’s important in a passage.
- Perceive the text structure.
- Keep themselves concentrated throughout the passage.
- Show their understanding or non-understanding of the passage.
Most While-ilstening activities focus on these subskills:
- Listening for the gist
- Listening for specific information
- Listening for the speaker’s attitude or opinion
What While-Listening Activities are there?
There are many While-Listening activities that you can do, some of the best ones are the following:
1. Listen and Describe: The teacher tells a story but stops regularly and asks the students to write or give a description.
2. True or False: The teachers tells a story and the students has to determine if the sentences that he has are true or false statements
3.Hidden Picture: The teachers gives a picture to the students about any particular subject and one of the students describes a picture and another student has to note down some of the things that her or his classmate says.
4. Dictation of short passages: This is an activity which has been discontinued but it helps students to practice skills, they have to listen to the sentences, they have to write them down, they have to read and say their sentences to their teacher to make sure they got their sentences right.
5.Dictogloss is a language teaching technique in which students form small groups and summarize a target-language text. First, the teacher prepares a text that contains examples of the grammatical form to be studied. The teacher reads the text to the students at normal speed while they take notes. Students then work in small groups group to prepare a summary of their work using the correct grammatical structures,and finally each group presents their work to the rest of the class.
6: Picture Dictation: The teacher describes a pcitures without showing to the students and they have to draw it.
7. False Facts Dictation: The teachers reads some statements which are false facts and students has to correct them silently and thne they have to discuss them with a partner.
8. Running Dictation: Running dictation involves a text stuck out of view of the students. In pairs, the students decide who will be the runner and who the scribe. The runner goes to the wall, memorises a chunk of text, runs back to the scribe and dictates it. After a minute or two, the scribe and the runner change roles. The activity is extremely lively, with students running to and fro.
9. Listen and Do Activities: There are many listen and do activities such as Simon Says, stand up if and change chairs if
10. Twelve Questions: Prepare a diagram or something similar with 12 questions that students need to answer while they listen to a extended passage.
11: Gap Fill: Give students a transcript and ask students to fill in the blanks as they listen to the passage.
12: Multiple Choice: Ask students to read questions before they listen to the passage and then they have to select the correct answer out of 3 or 4 options.
Remember that this is the second part of a listening lesson, we need to learn more about Post-Listening activities so we can be able to say that our work has been finished.