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A Pleasant Evening: Listening Comprehension Lesson Plan
Dating in America is the subject of a focused listening exercised that could be used with language learners as well as native English speakers. The richly detailed packet includes a writing assignment, supplemental exercises, vocabulary...
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Impromptu Speech
Focus on presentation techniques with this instructional activity, which prompts middle schoolers give an impromptu speech. They practice public speaking by giving a short unprepared speech. Some preparations are made to include an...
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Word Roots 2: FIN, SED, FER Beginner - Context Story 1
Promote understanding of vocabulary words with this audio recording. You or your learners click on a character image to hear a vocabulary passage read out loud. The audio recording repeats each bold word twice, giving your class a chance...
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Present Continuous Exercises
In this online interactive listening instructional activity, students listen attentively to a tape and match the 8 pictures of animals to the 8 words on the tape.
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Listening Exercises: "London" by William Blake
In this poetry and listening skills online worksheet, students watch a YouTube video reading of the poem, "London" by William Blake. They enter the correct words in a cloze activity. They read an excerpt about the poem and answer the...
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English Language Arts Test: Listening Selection
“Growing Up…and Up,” a excerpt from Glenn Stout’s book about Shaquille O’Neal, provides the text for the listening section of the 2009 New York State English Language Arts Test. Although there are no questions included, the passage is...
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Day Six Lesson- The Whale Rider
Students recognize Maori sayings, identify major characters, and discuss major story lines in The Whale Rider. In this The Whale Rider lesson, students repeat and define common words of the Maori and discuss the setting of the story. ...
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CGC1P -- Unit 1 Lesson 2 Video Introduction
In this listening instructional activity, 5th graders fill-in the blanks and respond to questions. Students watch a video and fill-in the blanks and answer questions with information that they hear during the video.
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Listen to Poems and Rhyme
Students create rhymes. In this rhyming lesson students supply rhymes for Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain. The students group words according to rhyming patterns.
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Physical Education Lesson Plan: Fortune Cookies
Students investigate movement. In this physical education lesson, students select a "fortune cookie" made from crumpled paper and read the directions inside. Students perform locomotor skills by following the oral directions given.
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A Melody Activity
Students explore melody. In this music lesson, students define "melody" and identify the melody line present in increasingly complex musical pieces. Students sing or hum the melody line after listening to an excerpt of music.
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ESL Listening Activity: "Yesterday"
In this ESL listening worksheet, students listen to "Yesterday" by the Beatles, then fill in blanks to complete the song lyrics. A link to audio and additional resources is provided.
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Applying listening techniques though media presentation
Twelfth graders practice speaking Spanish. In this Spanish language lesson, 12th graders listen to a song sung in Spanish, then correctly identify key components of its grammar and language. This lesson includes a teacher self...
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Desert, Island, Stream
Students demonstrate effective listening skills. In this listening skills lesson plan, students line up at the end of a court, and listen for instructions to run to the correct line labeled "desert," "island," or "stream."
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Conflict Resolution
In this listening activity, students listen to their teacher's instructions to draw a picture in the box. Students then grade how well they listened to the instructions.
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Book 1 Listening
In this listening activity learning exercise, students listen to two different sections from a book. Students check off the words in the first section they hear and then check off the phrases they hear in the second section.
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Book 1 - Listening Test 2
In this listening activity worksheet, students read and listen to book 1 for certain words and phrases. Students check off the words they hear in section one and the phrases they hear in section two.
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School-Home Links: Follow Directions
In this following steps instructional activity, students listen carefully to a set of directions that a family member reads once to them. Students then attempt to accomplish the steps in the correct order and answer a series of questions...
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Sneaky Snake
Students examine the letter 's'. Through instruction and modeling they explore the sound the letter makes, how the letter is written, words that contain the letter, etc. They listen to a story and identify words with the /s/ sound by...
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British Council Learn English Central: Listening and Watch
A selection of 20 or so mp3 listening files, with audioscripts, that you can download and play on your computer or portable player. Each comes with a follow-up activity -- these can vary, e.g., an offline writing assignment, online...
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Read Write Think: A Directed Listening Thinking Activity
Lesson which requires learners to listen to The Tell-Tale Heart read aloud, answer prediction questions during the reading, and write written responses after. Excellent for beginning a mystery unit.
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James Madison University: Reflective Listening Exercise
This exercise in reflective listening is designed to be done with a partner. Instructions are tailored to classroom use, complete with assessment sheets. There is also quite a bit of background material for those doing the exercise....