How I teach listening?

Alessandra Maria gave us the third workshop. In my group, we discuss about Teaching Listening.

"Why is listening important? Helping students to improve their listening to spoken English is a vital part of the teacher's job. The better students understand what they hear, the better they will take part in spoken interactions. Listening is also important skill in its own rigth. But listening is also important because, as they listen, students will be absorbing the language they hear, the rhythms, the intonation, the word order and grammatical patterns. providing them with listening material on tape and video will help their acquisition of the language in many ways."

by Jeremy Harmer

I think to teach listening you have to follow some stages, such as:

1) set situation;

2) give some specific vocabularies;

3) give some exercises to be done.

To teach listening you also have to use some tools, such as:

1) extracts:

• news;
• musics;
• films;
• pictures in order to set situation;
• interviews;

2) different kinds of exercise:

• complete gaps;
• multiple- choice;
• reply questions;
• complete tables and so on. Sucess for you!!!!!!!!!