Module teaching and integrating language skills lesson 1

Sample while-listening activities:

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  listening with visuals
  
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  filling in graphs and charts
  
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  following a route on a map
  
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  checking off items in a list
  
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  listening for the gist
  
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  searching for specific clues to meaning
  
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  completing cloze (fill-in) exercises
  
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  distinguishing between formal and informal registers
  

3. Post-listening Stage
Post-listening is also an important stage as it reviews and checks the listening efficiency and result. During this stage, teachers are not only supposed to check the answers, they also need to lead the students to consolidate the comprehension of the listening input. They can organize further discussions on the listening text, explain some new terms and phrases, summing up appeared language rules and designing some related exercise for the students to strengthen their impression about the knowledge. In addition, giving a dictation on a summary of the text may check all the different language points and students' mastery of knowledge. Via the first two stages, students have received many comprehensible input, thus, the purpose of post-listening is to transfer these input into intake. In another word, the stage of post-listening can be considered as a transformation of language knowledge to language competence in listening teaching section.