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This recipe works best if you combine it with Extensive Reading. It builds confidence and teaches reading, speaking, and listening Encourage your students to make a voice diary with their cell phones. Its listed under the “Voice Memo” Feature. First you need to provide a high interest story to your students.
1. Have them read the story once quietly 2.  …
Exposing students to a wide range of accents of both native and second language speakers is a recipe that must be cooked up for intermediate and advanced learners.
One great place for this would be The Speech Accent Archive . There you can choose mp3 samples from speakers all over the world. They all read the same paragraph so students can just…
This is an excellent activity for students to gain awareness of pragmatical competency and pronunciation problems they may have.
In pairs, students silently "mouth" very slowly, the questions from a handout. Simple questions. Go here for many lists - use the simple ones like "Favorites" or "Getting to know you". The other student responds with one or two simple sentences.
This is a fun lesson. Lily is an amazing child and your students will be fascinated.
1. Choose a student and get the student standing at the front of the class. Place a map of the world at the front of the class.
2. Show the video of Lily. When she is asked to find a country, the student at the front must find it before Lily. If…
This is a variation of the famous "Telephone" game.
Write a word on a slip of paper and show it to a student. This student must whisper it to the second student. Then the second student must draw a picture of what he or she heard, and show it to the third student. The third student, then, writes the word that represents the picture and shows it to the fourth student…
Here's a bunch of listening recipes! Just read to your heart's delight. Lots of small ideas that foster student listening skills and really make a difference in creating a fun and engaging classroom.
Intensive Listening Activities
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