How To Teach Listening Like A Pro

CONTENTS

HOW TO TEACH LISTENING

3 HOW TO: How to Guide Your ESL Students towards Better Listening... Step by Step

4-5 MUST READ: Do You

Hear What I Hear? 8 Activities to Improve Listening Skills

6-7 HOW TO: How to Teach

Listening Skills: Best Practices

8 MUST READ: Loud and Clear: Three Listening Activities Adaptable for Any Level

9 BEGINNER LISTENING: The Right Stuff: Three Brilliant Beginner Listening Activities

10 MUST READ: Building

Listening Skills for Employment

11 MUST READ: Do You

Recognize These 9 ESL Listening Mistakes?

12 MUST READ: The 3 Most

Successful Approaches for All-Around Better Listening Skills

13 MUST READ: Top

7 Ways to Get the Most out of Listening Comprehension Exercises

14 MUST READ: Hear Ye!

Hear Ye! Sure-fire Ways to Boost Your Students’ Listening Skills

15 MUST READ: 3 Secrets

to Successful Listening

Comprehension? What to Keep An Ear Out For

16 HOW TO: How to Open

Their Ears and Get Them Listening to Each Other in No Time

17 REAL LIFE: 5 Real Life

Activities for Listening Practice

18 REAL LIFE: 10 Great

Sources for Real Listening Practice: Part One

19 REAL LIFE: 10 Great

Sources for Real Listening Practice: Part Two

20 REAL LIFE: Authentic

Listening: What ESL Materials Lack and How to Get It

21-22 MUSIC & SONGS: 10

ESL Activities That Will Bring Music to Your Ears

23 MUSIC & SONGS: Take

a Musical Trip Around the World With These ESL Activities

24-25 MUSIC & SONGS:

Song Time: “Excuses” and Methods to Incorporate Music in the ESL Classroom

26 HOW TO: How to Teach

Using Songs

27 MUSIC & SONGS: What

You Can Do With a Song: 5 Creative ESL Listening Activities

28 MUSIC & SONGS:

Classroom Songs: 16 Creative Ways

29-30 MUSIC & SONGS: We

are Never Getting Back Together: Popular Music to Teach English

31 MOVIES & VIDEO: The

Best Shows/Movies for a Children’s ESL Video Lesson

32-33 MOVIES & VIDEO:

English Video Lessons: Winning Strategies for the ESL Class

34 MOVIES & VIDEO:

How To Use TV In Your Classroom: 6 Creative ESL Approaches

35-36 MOVIES & VIDEO:

What You Can Do With a TV Series: 8 Creative Ideas You Can Use

37-38 MOVIES & VIDEO:

Beyond Naptime: Incorporate Movies in the Classroom and Keep them Riveted

39 TOP 10: Top 10

Christmas Songs for ESL Classes

40 RESOURCES: Listen Up:

Using Online Resources to Amplify Listening Skills

41 BONUS: Voicethread,

Voki, Listen & Watch: English Homework for Listening and Speaking You Can Use

42-43 BONUS: yes Yes YES!

How to Teach Sentence Stress

3

Guide Your ESL Students towards Better Listening…Step by Step

Of all of the skills ESL students need to develop to improve their overall English fluency, listening is probably the most frustrating. Think about it. They can take as long as they need to read or write. They can carefully choose what to say when they speak, if they choose to speak at all. But weak listening places students in the most frustrating situations. Fortuư nately for them, there is a way to slowly but steadily improve their listening skills, and you can guide them every step of the way!

HOW TO IMPROVE WEAK LISTENING

When students have to work on a parư ticularly weak area, it is best for them to focus their efforts on improving this specific skill. I’m not saying they should neglect the usual homework and do something that is tailor-made just for them. They should complete the planned coursework, just like everyone else, but in addition to this, they should work on improving the skill that needs work – in this case, listening. I cannot emphasize enough that the strategy I will outline below is for students to implement after school and in their own time.

Will they have to work harder? Of course! Will it take up more of their time? Natuư rally! Simply remind your students of the popư ular saying: no pain, no gain! So if you want to guide your students towards betư ter listening, here’s what to do:

STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE TOWARDS BETTER LISTENING 1

INSTRUCT THEM TO START EASY

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