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Mai 25th, 2008 by hibbelersusan
1.) One question before we start: Have you ever been to an English-speaking country? What were your experiences?
2.) Listen to the podcast and take some notes to the following questions:
a) What are they talking about?
b) What are the persons´names who are talking?
c) What countries do the persons belong to?
http://www.spoton.de/CoCoCMS/generator/poddl.php?cast=3&filename=6668.mp3
3.) Please draw a table with 4 columns and 4 lines. In the first line please note in different columns the following words: name, country, advantages, disadvantages.
Listen to the podcast again and fill in the gaps in the table.
4.) Now it´s your turn! In which country do you live? What do you think about advantages and disadvantages of living in this country? Take some notes.
5.) Talk to your neighbour about what you like best in your country and discuss about the bad things that happen in your country. How would you create a leaflet that presents your country?
Didactics:
Why did I choose this podcast?
- it offers profiles of different countries…..cultural studies
- interview: authentic material. It´s like chatting to friends.
- pacing is slow and clear, the vocabulary level is relatively slow. Although the speakers are from different countries and they have different accents they are well understandable. ……Pupils can have a sense of achievement while listening.
- the content is familiar to the students and they can make predictions about. Usually they have background knowledge.
- it´s a short podcast (3-4 minutes). Using shorter reports can help concentrate attention.
Why did I take these tasks/exercises?
ex. 1.) Brainstorming facilitates and supports listening comprehension (pre-listening task=advance organizer)
ex. 2.) Questions in advance help the students to concentrate on the content. Note-taking is a method of listening comprehension.
ex. 3.) Information gap excercise: productive use of language. Listening for context and content. Answering questions relating to the content.
ex. 4.) Creative thinking and active use of the language.
ex. 5.) Listening comprehension is part of the communicative skills. LC is necessary for language learning. Listening comprehension proceeds oral language production.
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Dear Susanne,
Thanks for your very detailed tasks and the interesting podcast. Excellent that you elaborate on reasons for using the podcast and on your aims.
Problematic about the pre-task is: what do you do if no one has ever been to an English speaking country (which is quite likely). The while-listening tasks are good. You might want to help students filling out the table by giving them a few facts or inserting right and wrong information to select from while listening.
I especially like your follow-up tasks because they focus on learners’ lifes.