Stages of a Listening Lesson

(TESOL Ideas--Listening, Lesson Planning)

[Note: it is not possible or desirable to do all of these stages in a single lesson.  This simply represents a range of options that can be used for a listening text. The activities are listed in the order that they should be done in class--i.e. you can omit activities, but don't change the order of activities.]

Pre-Listening

1. lead-in

2. Orientation to the text

3. Pre-Teach Vocabulary (This can also be moved to after the gist task)

4. Prediction 

Listening

5. Gist Task or Prediction and Check

6. Finding Specific Information

7. Understanding the text for Detailed Comprehension

8. Understanding Inferences in the text

9. Personalization (Students' own opinions about the text)

Post Listening

10. Bonus activities (e.g. grab the word, grab the paraphrase, Bingo, identify the reference words)

11. Transcript Work (e.g. put in order, faulty printer, wrong words, running dictation, student editors)

12. Exploit the text for grammar or vocabulary work

13. Communicative Follow-up (discussion questions)

For a similar Lesson Planning Template, see the 2nd page of this flowchart HERE: