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If I'm being perfectly honest, I have to admit that my primary purpose in doing this was to fill up time--I had some extra space in the schedule that needed to be filled.
And yet, I do think there's some value in this type of activity. If the students can put themselves in the shoes of an IELTS test writer, and try themselves to write in the distractors, synonyms and paraphrases, then they'll be better able to imagine what types of tricks the IELTS test may throw at them.
And for whatever it's worth, my students really enjoyed this activity. I encouraged them to have some fun and get a bit silly with it, and they did.
We ended up having to spread this activity out over two lessons, which was just as well, because it ended up giving me time to photocopy the students' questions between classes. At the next class, I distributed out there questions to their classmates, they performed their dialogue in front of the class, and the classmates answered the questions.
In my own classroom, I used this to supplement the IELTS Express Upper Intermediate textbook Unit 2 Listening p.18-21.
Write your own Listening Part 1 dialogue:
Traditional Format
Description: Part 1 features 2 speakers talking. The dialogue is usually transactional--some sort of information is being exchanged between the two speakers, usually for business purposes.
For Example:
A student enrolling in a course
A man buying a new cell-phone
A man booking airplane tickets on the phone
Have Fun
On the real IELTS test, they usually stick to boring conversations like this. So don’t expect any unusual situations on the real test.
However, for the purposes of this class, feel free to have some fun with this. You can think of crazy or unusual situations, like an alien trying to buy a bus ticket, or a woman hiring a hitman to kill her husband, or Tarzan trying to enroll in university. Or whatever. Feel free to get creative.
The Questions
IELTS Listening Part 1 contains ten questions, so write down 10 questions for your classmates to answer on a separate sheet of paper.
Distractors
The IELTS test is fond of using distractors. Distractors are places where the IELTS tries to trick you into writing down the wrong answer by including several possible answers, only one of which is really the right one.
For example:
A: What’s your name?
B: My name is John. No, wait… let me think… it’s Mike. No, I mean Kevin. Sorry, did I say Kevin? My name is Tom. It’s definitely Tom. I mean Scott. Scott is my name.
When writing your own dialogue, make sure to include lots of distractors.
Synonyms and Paraphrases
The questions on the IELTS test will usually use different words than the actual recording. For example:
On the test, the question might read. Question 1: What is his name?
But the recording will say: “My parents called me Tom when I was born.”
The thing your parents call you when you are born is the same as your name, so in this instance the answer to question 1 is “Tom”.
When writing your sample dialogue, make sure you use different words in the dialogue than in the textbook.
Write down ten questions for your dialogue. You can use any format (short answer, note completion, True/False/Not Given, multiple choice, etc.)
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