49 ESL Listening Activities for Kids (6-13) by Jackie Bolen

Author:Jackie Bolen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: esl listening, esl listening activities, esl listening games, esl lab, esl listening activity, esl listening game, esl listening test, esl listening lab, how to teach listening, how to teach listening esl
Publisher: Jackie Bolen
Published: 2020-06-08T00:00:00+00:00

Do you _____?

Skills: Writing/speaking/listening

Listening Sub-Skills: Predicting content, listening for key words

Time: 15 minutes

Level: Beginner-intermediate

Materials Required: Strips of paper (or students can make their own)

Prediction is a key skill in listening. Listeners gain clues from the context and in this activity, there are only a few expected questions each student will hear as they themselves wrote the answers. Some other sub-skills are listening for key words (verbs/nouns) and context clues, or asking a speaker to repeat themselves, explain a word or speak more slowly.

If you’re teaching beginner level students, consider writing interesting fill in the blank sentence forms on the board to help them; this will reduce the chances of students practicing (and potentially fossilizing errors) incorrect sentence forms when speaking, and the listener hearing them too—it also reduces the time it might take for you to check every paper and make corrections before the activity begins. For beginner level students, it’s also a good idea to do a brief review of vocabulary and phrases from previous lessons that will help them produce answers that facilitate the students asking questions being able to find matches—otherwise, the activity may deteriorate into chaos.

Once the answers are completed, collect them, mix them up and distribute them back to your students (three per student). At this point, everyone stands up and goes around the class asking questions to try to find the owner for each paper that they have. If someone is done early, you can give them another paper from the reserve pile that you have (remember that each student made five papers but you only handed out three per student).

Students have to listen carefully to the questions from other students in order to see if it matches them. It's worth mentioning specifically to students that this is a listening activity that focuses on making questions in English, not a reading one so that they're not to read other students' papers.

For example:

"Did you go to _____ middle school?"

"Do you have a twin brother?"

"Do you love to play soccer?"

Teaching Tip:

Students need to write down interesting and unique things about themselves. For example, “I go to XYZ university” is something that every other student in the class will say yes to so it is not a good thing to use.

Procedure:

1. Give students five strips of paper (or they provide their own).

2. Students write down one interesting thing about themselves on each paper. The teacher can monitor and assist students with this as necessary as well as correct some errors.

3. Collect papers and redistribute (three per student).

4. Students stand up and go around the class, asking their classmates, “Do you have a twin brother?” “Can you play the piano really well?” based on what is on their papers.

5. If it's a match, they get one point and that paper is “finished.” Optionally, you can require higher level students to ask 1-3 follow-up questions before they get a point.

6. If a student finds all their matches, they can get one or two more papers from your reserve pile.

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