listening for primary children

LISTENING

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LISTENING

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-Reading

-Writing

-Listening-Speaking

We can’t re-listen in the same waythat we can re-

read, so…

…we have toconcentrate very

hard when weare listening

Children have a very short attention span...

…but it is something that

improves with time.

We have to develop activities to verify the

understanding of children while they are listening.

It is important not to overload children when

you are working on listening task…

Some listening activities will…

… make your pupils

move about, create

movement and/or

noise

… make them

concentrate and

create a peaceful

atmosphere.

Listening in the classroom

“Listen and do activities”

Listening for information

“Listen and repeat” activities

Listening to stories

What are we going to see?

“Listen and do activities” MOVING ABOUT

“Listen and do activities” MOVING ABOUT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVY3TRT8zso

“Listen and do activities” MOVING ABOUT

• Activities connected to doing ordinary things in classroom: you can ask your pupils to do all sorts of crazy things:

MOVING ABOUT

Watching by others

Helps us to know if they have understood

Instructor

“Listen and do activities” MOVING ABOUT

PUT YOUR HAND UP

Did you heard that?

Activity for 2º course.

We set some rules and tell some words.

When children hear determinate words, they put up their hands.

Improves vocabulary, listening comprehension and reaction times.Very active and amusing.

“Listen and do activities” Put your hand up

MIME STORIES

• In a mime story pupils listen to the story and the teacher and pupils do the action

• In your own words what does it mean?

• Telling a short story.

“Listen and do activities” Mime stories

`Listen and do´ activities

Listen & Draw!

Teacher tells pupils what to draw.This kind of activities are useful for checking object vocabulary prepositions, coloursand numbers.

“Listen and do activities” Drawing

To check what pupils know

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“Listening for information”

To give new information

We can use

identifying

activities to

learn

vocabulary

“Listening for information”

Identifying activities

“Listening for information”Listen for the mistake

20THE LION AND THE MOUSSE

“Listening for information”

Putting things in order

We can put our students to a test with a littlewriting in a questionnaire.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgOpoiMFwp4&authuser=0

Questionnaires are good improving reading or listeningcomprehension.

Activity for 4º course.

“Listening for information”

Questionnaire

“Listening for information”

Listen and colour

Activitie: ANIMAL AND COLOURS

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“Listening for information”

Filling in missing information (with a song)

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“Listening and repeat” activities

Rhymes

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Songs and rhymes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rSLCIF6DPI

Listening to stories and telling stories

Stories are a critical part on children’s development.

Listening to stories make easier to the students to make mental pictures.We need to prepare properly the children before a listening.

Also telling stories develops several skills on the students.

Creating stories and reading others from books is also useful.

•REFLECTION

•RATIONALE FOR USING STORIES

•TECHNIQUES FOR STORYTELLING

•STORYTELLING ACTIVITIES

•CONCLUSION:

•CREATIVITY IS KEY!

•GET STUDENTS INVOLVED!

•INCORPORATE SONGS & CHANTS!

•COLLABORATE & SHARE MATERIALS!

“Creating stories”

The very hungry caterpillar