Students seems to get frustrated very quickly when it comes to listening.  Here are a few simple ideas to help students improved their listening skills, without too much pressure!  Click on the link..

    Gets everyone involved A student describes someone familiar to all in the class (teacher, politician, celebrity), and others must listen and work out who they are describing.

    Listening for specific items Give students a sheet containing a variety of words/phrases from the text they are about to listen to.  As they hear the words/phrases, they should tick them off on ..

    Students practise without realising! Give student text and reading activities earlier in the lesson.  Move on to a listening activity later in the lesson, and without mentioning to students, use..

    Focussed individual listening Teacher gives students something specific to listen for (eg time phrase, verb tense, vocabulary topic).  Teacher reads a text aloud. Students listen (with eyes clos..