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Listening

Explore our engaging listening ESL activities designed to enhance your students' comprehension of diverse accents and decode the meaning behind the words. Our lesson plans feature authentic materials reflecting various ages, accents, countries, and genders, ensuring a comprehensive language experience.

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It Melts In My Mouth
B2
C1
In this lesson, students will describe food and dishes, yummy 😋 DISCLAIMER❗️ Make sure your students eat before the class😉 Get ready to learn new words and phrases to talk about food🌯 and practice your listening skills🎶.
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Boris Johnson
B2
C1
In this lesson, your students will spend some time with one of the most high-profile politicians💼 of our time, Boris Johnson👱🏻‍♂️. He's a buoyant person who's not afraid of expressing his inner self👌, no matter what position he takes😊. Is it appropriate for a politician? Does it influence his political career?
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TV Commercials
B2
C1
In this lesson, students will discuss the importance of commercials 📺 and the techniques creators use to persuade you into buying a product💰. Moreover, students will analyze a couple of touching🥺 and inspirational💖 TV commercials and plan one themselves!
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How Fashion Affects Our Brain
B2
C1
In this lesson, students will discuss fashion, clothes, and the way they can affect us. Research shows wearing a doctor's white coat can make people more concentrated and attentive. 🥼👩‍⚕️👨‍⚕️
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Microchips
B2
C1
In this lesson, students will discuss a fairly popular trend in Sweden: microchipping. Chips serve as keys, wallets, and even a passport, which is very much to the liking of pragmatic Swedes.
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Halloween Canceled
B2
C1

Should Halloween be canceled? A listening and debate lesson

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Weather Forecast
B2
C1
In this lesson, your students will talk about the weather☁️. If you believe the weather☂️ is a dull topic, think twice! Weather comes first⛈ when it comes to small talk, and it's such an abundant source of vocabulary!🌈Scattered showers, heavy showers, polka dot showers, beach breeze, pouring rain, you name it!
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Life’s Biggest Regrets
B2
C1
In this lesson, your students will discuss regrets😿 and learn to talk about them using new vocabulary☺️ and grammar (third conditional + I wish/If only)👍. Your students are going to watch📹 a street interview with a couple of young adults discussing their regrets😞.
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Tour The MoMA
B2
C1
In this lesson, your students will talk about all things art. 👩‍🎨 They will go on an excursion to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)🖼 in New York🗽, where a senior curator🧑🏻‍🎨 will tell them about the exhibition called "Items: Is Fashion Modern?"👚. Together, they will delve into the history of clothing and accessories💍 that have made a notable impact on global culture.🌎

Real-World Listening Lesson Plan and ESL Activities

Listening stands as a fundamental communication skill, essential for establishing rapport and understanding among individuals—a universal desire. Hence, allocating enough time to hone listening skills is essential, even for beginners. While textbooks offer numerous audio resources, they are often overly refined and unrealistic, leaving students unprepared for the diverse realities of spoken English. With our listening lesson plan ESL activities, we aim to bridge this gap, guiding educators to equip students, starting from the A1 level, with the awareness that English can sound different!

What Makes These Listening ESL Activities Effective?

Our listening lesson plan ESL activities lesson plans are crafted based on established teaching frameworks like CELTA, ensuring students engage extensively with audio materials. They progress from grasping the main idea to discerning intonation patterns and pronunciation nuances, ultimately enhancing communication comprehension. Another integral part of our listening lesson plan ESL is diversity—we offer a variety of genres, from dialogues to university lectures, and feature speakers ranging from children to those with Scottish accents, preparing students for real-life interactions.

Why Is It Important to Listen to Authentic Voices?

Exposure to authentic voices is crucial as it mirrors real-life language encounters. It allows students to acclimate to diverse accents, speech patterns, and cultural nuances, preparing them for communication in the real world. By listening to authentic voices, students develop an ear for natural language use, enhancing their comprehension skills and confidence in various linguistic contexts.

Let's bridge the gap between textbook English and authentic communication! Try out our listening ESL activities and say goodbye to scripted dialogues and hello to real-world English diversity!