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                                    My learners like listening activities

     It is important for the students to practice their listening skills. I use different listening activities in the classroom, which really motivate my students to listen. They are TV commercials (the advertisers are the actors, who use clear natural speech that should be easier for students to understand), Weather Forecasts (allow students to listen to a radio weather forecast or TV weather forecast, understand content with or without visual clues), Movies and television shows (I try to limit my selection to about ten minutes to save the lesson time), Radio clips (which come with the lack of visual input that students have to assist them), Recorded books or  audio books (they often use different accents for different characters), YouTube videos( funny things that kids say, cooking programs, social interactions when

real people use real language, have real, and sometimes ungrammatical, speech patterns), Public Announcements ( recording an announcement on a bus, subway or plane),Conversations (I try to take my students into situations where many groups of people are talking at the same time, a party or cafeteria for example), Songs ( play a popular song multiple times and give them the opportunity to sing along. These texts( lyrics) will give students exposure to realistic pronunciation, intonation and speed).

I use different tasks to motivate my students to listen:

1. Before you listen predict if the sentence is true or false.
2. Predict what information you need and listen to confirm.
3. Write down key words while you listen. (7-10)
4. Predict the next word, when I click ‘play’ try to hear the word. (The aim is not to get it right, but rather to concentrate on the content and vocabulary).
5. Fill in the blanks of the missing lyrics, guess the missing information.
6. Match various commercials with pictures of the people who recorded them.
7. Draw what you are hearing, then try to comment on.
8. Аnswer the questions about what you heard.
9. Activity Touch and Go is good as a warm-up. I’ll need a story that includes essential vocabulary, and my students will need flashcards with these words on them. As I am reading the story, my  students must raise the card with the correct vocabulary word when they hear it in the story.
10. Activity Whiteboard Race is a very lively game. The class should be broken down into two teams. One student from each team will come to the front and take a marker. The students should stand a good distance away from the whiteboard so they have a small ways to run. They listen to a sentence (a word). The student who gets to the board and correctly writes what I said scores a point for their team. The marker is then passed to the next student and the process is repeated.
11. Listen to each other, write down at least two questions you want to ask. When the student finishes speaking, the other students should ask their questions. It helps to focus their attention on what their partner is saying rather than it simply being a monologue followed by a second monologue.
12. Game ‘Who Am I?’. I read the descriptions of famous people, animals or everyday objects. Pupils guess and name them or match with photos of the people ( animals).

By making listening fun, students won’t even have the chance to fear it. The use of interactive

activities in the classroom helps me really motivate my pupils to listen.