Listening+activities

For Listening Development
> The archives don't hold the current items. It is true archives - including Duplessis orphans, Oscar Peterson, sports highlights, information about space etc. But some great stuff in there. http://archives.cbc.ca/ > If you want to compare a printed news story and the audio version, I would suggest using a news podcast. CBC has a podcast page for a number of their radio and television programming. On the podcasting page you will see that the first couple of podcasted programs need to be accessed through ITUNES but the rest can be downloaded from the podcast page. > http://www.cbc.ca/podcasting/ > --The CBC hourly edition is updated every hour so you could download the mp3 and post it on blackboard with an acknowledgement of the source and use it for listening with your class. > --CBC News The World at Six is updated daily and probably has more depth so it might be the better source for comparing against a print source. Again you can download the mp3 and use it with your class.
 * One good use of the lab time is to help students become more familiar with the weblinks for ESL/EAP on our library home page. There are a number of listening sites collected there and you can direct students to these. They can sign out headphones from the lab monitor and explore the links or you can direct them to specific links that are appropriate for their level. If you want to monitor and direct their use of these links, you can create a checklist form with the names of different listenings that you would like them to complete and these can be worked on over a period of time.
 * Direct students to a news site such as the CBC and have them listen and complete tasks on the most current news feed. Rather than controlling the number of times they listen, give them a period of time and they can stop and start or replay as much as they like within the time period. (This control is the bonus of listening individually) They could count the number of news stories, write a key word or phrase to identify each story or put the story headlines you have prepared in advance in order. Another task with no preparation is for the students to listen to the story repeated times and take notes of as many nouns or verbs that they can. You can create a competition around this by giving points for recording a selection of words that you choose to record as you listen as well. Put these on an overhead and reveal them at the end of the listening.
 * CBC carries a variety of file types.. The live feeds of radio, the video on demand, the audio podcasts, and the CBC archives. Video on demand is typically current (week old) clips of produced segments or you can select on of the featured programs and look at their online clips (such as The Hour).
 * [|www.esl-lab.com] has some good listening exercises that are theme oriented at three levels/EASY/MEDIUM/DIFFICULT...