An interactive running dictation

 

One of the most important aspects of listening is the comprehension. Students are going to listen to the audio with different purposes: they can listen for the gist, for specific information or find the speaker's attitude or opinion about a topic. 

I am going to explain an activity called 'Running dictation'. It is an activity in which students work in groups of 3 or in pairs. In this activity they work not only in the listening skill, but also the speaking, reading and writing are integrated. It is a game in which students stand up and move around the class. They have to find the text and walk back to the group and dictate what they remembered. The other student is going to write down what they hear and when the teacher says CHANGE the students swap the roles. Finally, they will write the whole text and read it together to see what they have written. 

This activity can be done using QR codes which are sticked in the corners of the classroom. The main aim is that the students, making use of the tablets, find the QR codes and scan them to read the part of the passage that they will have to memorize and say it to the other student to write it down.

It is interesting because they have the curiosity of what is behind the code, and they are motivated because they are using the tablets. Furthermore, in this activity each group will work in a corner of the class, so that they will swap the places and complete the dictation together. 

As teachers, we can create an order for the learners to go to each corner and each QR code has included the sentence they have to write.

WEBGRAPHY: 

https://www.tefllemon.com/running-dictation

https://www.the-qrcode-generator.com/

https://www.teach-this.com/ideas/dictations. 

In addition, some post-listening activities the students can practice are:

Discussions: You can ask students to have a short discussion about the topic, the topic for the discussion must be taken from the listening task that they previously did and should be interesting enough to inspire comments and debates.Information 

Exchange: In this activity you ask students to listen to a passage and ask another to listen to a different passage, when they finish, they share they information with each other and make sure that they understand the message the passage was intended to give.

Problem Solving: Students listen to a passage with the intention of solving a problems Some problem-solving task types such as solving moral dilemmas and solving mysteries will motivate students to listen carefully to a passage.

Deconstructing a Listening Passage: Most books have transcripts at the back of the books, those transcripts are often unused but you can use them to exploit features such as pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar and discourse markers.

Disappearing Dialogues: Another activity students can do to promote critical thinking skills is erasing parts of the dialogue and then asking students to fill in the blanks with phrases they remember or other phrases that might fit perfectly into the dialogue. 

www.englishpost.org/types-of-post-listening-activities/