Instructions
Listen to the recording of someone giving instructions. What are they talking about?
Look at the words below. Use a dictionary to check the meaning of any you are not sure about.
Nouns: switch, slot, disk, handle, key, arrow, screen
Verbs: lock, type Adjectives: bent, capital
Listen to the cassette again, and use the words to complete these notes:
Turn it on, here is the __________ at the side. Then you’ll see some words and numbers on the _____________ and finally a __________ C.
Take your ______________ and put it in the _________, and ______________ it in; you have to close this __________. Now _____________ in ‘A’ and press the _________ with the sort of ______________ ___________ at the side.
The listening text
First you turn it on, here’s the switch at the side. Then you’ll see some words and numbers on the screen, and finally a capital C and a sort of V sideways on. OK, now take your disk, this one, and put it in the slot – it’s called a ‘drive’- and lock it in, you have to close this little handle here. Now type ‘A’ and press the key with the sort of bent arrow at the side.
 BOX 8.3.2: LISTENING ACTIVITY 2
Instructions to student
Your worksheet shows a map of a zoo; write in the names of the animals in the appropriate cages as your teacher tells you.
Instructions to teacher
Using your filled-in map of the zoo, describe to the class where each animal lives; they may ask you to repeat or explain anything they did not catch or understand.
Student's map
(Adapted from Penny Ur, Teaching Listening Comprehension,
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Cambridge University
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Press. 1984, pp. 109-10 © Cambridge University Press 1984)
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Box 8.3.3: LISTENING ACTIVITY 3 Instructions
Listen to the following recorded talk, and then answer the multiple-choice questions below.
The listening text Crash! was perhaps the most famous pop group of that time. It consisted of three female singers, with no band. They came originally from Manchester, and began singing in local clubs, but their fame soon spread throughout the British Isles and then all over the world. Their hairstyle and clothes were imitated by a whole generation of teenagers, and thousands came to hear them sing, bought recordings of their songs or went to see their films.
The questions
1.Crash! was
a) notorious b) well-known c) unpopular d) local
2. The group was composed of:
a) three boys b) two girls and a boy
c) two boys and a girl d) three girls
3. The group was from:
a) Britain b) France c) Brazil d) Egypt
4. A lot of young people wanted to
a) sing like them b) look like them
c) live in Manchester d) all of these
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Activity 8 Green and Tanner p.44-46
Five principles of designing a listening task:
Immediate response (students react after while-listening activities)
Motivation
Success (students should be put in a situation of success at their own level)
Simplicity (appropriate to the students’ level of the language)
Feedback (immediate feedback after while-listening task)
Activity 9
Designing listening material for the classroom
Read about the procedure which has become standard practice when dealing with a listening text in class and underline the main points.
Read the following steps in a lesson and say what your opinion about this approach is.
Evaluate different approaches to developing listening skills, say to which stage they can refer and whether they are effective or not.
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