5 FUN ACTIVITIES IN IMPROVE YOUR LISTENING SKILL

 

As you can see in the picture above, it is important to keep focus while listening. You need to make yourself comfortable by pay attention to your gestures such as your ears must listen, your eyes are watching, your lips are closed, your hands are still and your feet are quiet. By do this consideration to your body parts, you can keep your concentration by not making any noises. However, I use these five activities to improve my listening:

1. Fill in the blank for song lyrics. Find a song with well-articulated words and copy and paste the lyrics into a Word document. Remove some of the words and leave a blank in their place. If you want it to be extra challenging, you can also leave out full phrases as well. Play the song for your students two to three times and have them fill in as many of the blanks as they can. If you want, at the end of this activity, you and your students can sing the song together.
2. Draw a story. Read a short story or a description of a scenery to your students and have them draw out a picture based on their interpretation. They can draw one big landscape picture or a comic strip with multiple panels. Feel free to read the story or description twice or three times so your students can catch more of its details. At the end of this activity, each student can show the class what they drew and compare the similarities and differences between their pictures!
3. Write what you hear. Prepare a list of phrases and read them to your students while they write out word for word what they hear. It’s similar to a spelling bee, except rather than spelling out the word, they have to write the full sentences. You can change up the difficulty depending on the level of class you’re teaching. Make sure to articulate the words clearly and speak slowly for students of lower levels. For higher levels, you can try this exercise with tongue twisters to up the challenge!
4. Broken telephone- word by word. You need to do this with your friends. Split you and your friends into groups of five to seven and give each team leader a different phrase, but with the same number of words and level of difficulty. The team leader whispers the first word to the next person in line, who then whispers that word to the next person until it reaches the last person. The last person writes the word on the board. As soon as one word is passed down, the team leader can whisper the next word. At the end, the fastest team with the least amount of mistakes in the sentence wins!
5. Reported interviews. You need a friend to interview each other. Some topics you can ask about include family, hobbies, childhood experiences, future goals, etc. After you finishes your interviews, each of you reports to the other what you learned about your partner and can also assess how accurately your partner described you.