Teaching Skills

LISTENING ACTIVITY FOR COMPREHENSION                

Use dialogues in our ESL classes, are very good idea, not only for listening pronunciation and practice as a role play to help students in their orals skills but also are very good improving comprehension.  The following activity is an example of that, and fits very well with intermediate levels. Hope you like it and use it.

The first thing to do, in this activity is to write on the board o paste in colorful papers the following sentences: DO YOU KNOW ABOUT IT? , Mmm, LITTLE RELIEVED, I GOTTA SAY!, WHO ELSE WHERE IN THIS CLUB?,  I SWEAR I DIDN’T.  WELL, WE DID MORE THAN THAT.

Let’s talk about this questions above and share your ideas.  What do class think is the topic about?  Give some time to students to think and guess what the topic is.

Then, explain to the class that they are going to watch a video where they have to recognize those sentences in the dialogue.

Play the video: http://youtu.be/1lMIh9dYNb8

After watch the video and recognize the sentences, teacher gives the script of the full dialogue in 3 o 4 chunks. Students are going to listen again the dialogue and they will try to put in order each part of it.

Finally, they have to answer the following comprehension questions. (Feel free to play the video again)

a.        What angers Rachel so much?

b.      Was “I love Rachel” the name of the club?

c.       For how long were dating Rachel and Ross?

d.      What was the rumor about Rachel?

e.      What does Joey say at the end?

Divide the group in teams of four to complete this activity and discussed the answers.

At the end, ask to the class, “Well, What was the topic today”” ………..exactly: Rumors!