Effective Classroom Listening Activities for Children
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**Listening: "Listen and Do"**
Listen and do activities require an action as a response. This allows you to immediately check if children understand or if they do not.
**1. Giving Instructions**
Some instructions that teachers can give to children in class are: "Okay, sit down, please," "Okay, everybody, stop talking now and listen carefully."
**2. Listening and Identifying**
When children do "listening and identifying" activities, they are practicing a basic language skill: listening, making sense of English words and phrases, and acquiring meaning and sound together.
For these activities, you can use the classroom and all the things the children can see, such as wall charts, pictures, or objects that children create.
**3. Listening and Doing: Total Physical Response**
The teacher can explain in their mother tongue what to do before starting. They should use clear pronunciation and natural intonation, and use gestures and actions to help children understand.
The pupils have to listen carefully to the instructions and enjoy doing the actions. Example: Follow the leader.
**4. Listening and Performing: Miming**
When children are familiar with a particular topic, you can introduce mime.
Miming means acting silently, without speaking.
Children have to listen carefully when you describe what they have to mime. They have to decide how to perform what you describe, so they need some thinking time for this. Then, they move and act.
Miming is more complex than simple TPR activities. TPR involves children doing everything you say. Mimes give the children more freedom to be creative.
Mime is very suitable for stories: as you read, ask the children to mime the key actions.
Listening and miming helps children understand when they are learning rhymes and chants. You can use movements, pictures, or big gestures to help them understand and enjoy. When they understand, you can gradually remove the pictures, for instance.
**5. Listening and Responding Games**
These types of games help children to have fun, and it lets them act out what they hear while you are speaking. One of these activities is "Simon Says."