S and don’ts of developing listening skills

Activity 2 Process of designing listening activities

Objective: to help participants to explore the process of designing listening activities

Time: 25 min

Materials post-it-notes, handout 3 ►Procedure:

☺☺☺(10 min) Put participants in groups of 4 and distribute 8-10 post-it slips to each group. Ask groups to write down the steps which they will take in order to design a listening activity. Ask groups to write each step on a separate slip.

☺ (8 min) Ask groups to organise the post-it slips on the board in chronological order: what they would do first, second, next, etc. Ask groups to present the steps they have designed.

☺ (7 min) Distribute handout 3 which summarises the steps in designing listening materials. Ask participants to look at the steps on the handout and discuss similarities and differences between the steps in the handout and those designed by the groups.