Real Listening Practice for Students | Superstar Student Series

When we learn a language, we can listen to anything we want and make a lesson out of it.

Sometimes our students really want to learn English and ask us for extra work to practice everyday. This can be difficult sometimes because it takes time to think of an activity, and we have our own lives with our own time-consuming problems. Well, fortunately, we have prepared a worksheet for you to give to your students that will apply to any English listening audio or video they want to listen to.

The idea of this exercise is to practice listening for content as well as learning and applying English expressions ​both old and new.

The beauty of this type of exercise is they can listen to anything they want! 

Here's how it works...

If you're a Pro Member, download a pre-made copy of the listening worksheet, or copy and paste the information below, and give it to your students in paper or digital form. 

Assign them things to watch or listen to, and ask them to fill in the worksheet.

Review the answers together and answer any questions they may have before, after, or during the next class.

The worksheet has PRE-LISTENING, LISTENING, and POST LISTENING activities to answer to give them a complete idea about what they are listening to.

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Worksheet

Name: ________________________                                                                                                   Date: _______________
I’m listening to _________________________________                                                                  Length of audio: ______

Pre-Listening: Know what you're listening to.

1. What type of audio/video is it? (Podcast, conversation, comedy series, etc.) ___________________________________________________________________________________
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2. What is the objective of this audio/video? (ex. to make me laugh, to teach marketing, to inform, to argue, etc.) ___________________________________________________________________________________

Listening: Know what you’re listening for.

CONTENT

1. Write one sentenceanswering what the audio/video was about?          


2. Write 1-2 sentences with details from the listening. (What did you understand?)

a. _____________________________________________________________
            b. _____________________________________________________________
 
LANGUAGE

1. Write 1-3 OLD words or expressions that you heard. (Ones you already knew.) __________________________________________________________ 
   __________________________________________________________
   __________________________________________________________

 

1. Write 1-2 NEW words or expressions (then ask a teacher to confirm.)    
   __________________________________________________________
   ​__________________________________________________________

Post-Listening: Know what you've listened to.

1. Did it accomplish its objective? Why or why not?
   __________________________________________________________
   

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Pro Tips:

Consider the Level - You could try this for any level student that asks for it, but it will probably be most beneficial to at least a Blue Belt (Intermediate) student who has a good handle on basic grammar and expressions.

Consider Your Time - You don't need to spend that much time reviewing unless you want to assign it as proper homework and use it in your lessons.

Easter Egg Lessons:

Any Language - As the teacher, you could do these activities in any foreign language you're trying to learn.

Think Twice - It could cause some of us to really think about the things we watch and why we watch them, which could ultimately save us time if we eliminate the more useless things.

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