The Listening Week

Week 3: Listening

Task 1 -Treasure hunt -

WOW I didn't know there were so many interesting and user-friendly pages to exploit listening activities.
The first task consisted of exploring different sites to enhance our student's listening skills. But there was a hindrance... we've only got 30 minutes which they may seem to be enough, however, they turn out to be insufficient for the large number of amazing websites out there to explore. As I want to have a look at all pages, I started choosing the numbers in order.

• The first page http://moviesegmentstoassessgrammargoals.blogspot.com/, consists of movies segments to teach or practice grammatical points. It's a very useful page, full of activities and movies, most of them new. This page seems to be time-saving as it provides the teacher with worksheets to work with the movie. Definitely, it was what I was looking for! 

• The second page is http://www.smories.com/. There are stories for kids told by kids. Ideally, of course, for working with little children to boost their imagination. After watching the kids on the net telling stories, students may be encouraged to do the same. They can invent a story or else they can repeat the same story, practicing pronunciation and intonation. These kids are a good model to follow, we can profit a lot from this page!

• The third page is http://www.youtube.com/show/10questions. It's A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!, ideal for adults at an advanced level. In this page we can see and listen many celebrities, sport people, business people answering 10 questions in less than 5 minutes. There are no activities provided but there are a lot of things that can be done here.

I cannot wait to start my classes ( here in Argentina we're on holidays) and start exploiting ALL these pages!
I lack words to thank the moderators, especially Carla, who's always encouraging us to move forward, and  my "classmates" or "webmates", can we call us like that? who are always leaving comments and sharing their findings. So happy to be part of EVO sessions!