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Tip 7: Other Words
Purpose: To reduce the load of new vocabulary when listening.
Preparation Time: 5-10
minutes
Materials: a listening text, paper and pencil or a whiteboard and markers.
Preparation:
Go through the listening text and pick some phrases that
may give your learners difficulty. Try to think of ways to say those
phrases in words your learners already know. Make two lists. The A list
has the expressions as they are in the listening text, and the B list
has your alternatives.
For example: In a listening text in which
people talk about jobs:
| A list full-time salary part-time |
B list 40 hours a week pay up to 30 hours a week |
Procedure:
- Put the words from the first list on the
board and elicit different ways of saying them.
- Put the words from the B list on the
board in jumbled order.
- Students match the words from list A with list B. Check answers.
- Do the listening with tasks as you would
normally do.
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