Interesting listening test

Because the teacher almost focused on teaching grammar and vocabulary in the past, so I got few chance to do listening and speaking practice. As a result, my poor speaking and listening cannot afford any more in college. Actually most of courses concerned about speaking are named oral training class in college; there is still few training especially for listening.

Maybe we can say listening and speaking can practice at the same time, or you usually take the whole –English courses, that the professors always teach in English. I agree that it also does help. But if it is in connection with junior or senior high students, we should consider designing interesting listening test to make them have fun in learning.

One way I have ever heard before is also similar to one top-down exercise- finding main ideas and supporting details in our textbook. That is the teacher show a short video without no caption that several actors have a situational conversation, and after playing, teacher will request students to do a discussion with their partners to get a main point about what’s happening on the situation. And then the teacher will ask some students to do a short report and other students or the teacher himself/herself can support the details which those students don’t mention about. At last, the teacher will show the video with the caption again, saying “Let’s double-check it! “. I think this way is good to make most students involved in the activity, and the visual video can raise their interest.