AUDIO BASED LEARNING ACTIVITY
LEVEL- intermediate, 7th or 8th
grade;
SKILLS- speaking, listening, writing
Introduction:
This activity is connected to the students’
prior knowledge referring to the use of past tenses in short talks about past
activities. They have to mind the correct use of auxiliary DID and the short
infinitive of the verb, as well as the correct use o the past tense of
irregular verbs. Most of the times, for the sake of fluency, people “sprinkle”
their speech with fillers, linkers, collocations that contribute to a better
fluency.
Task:
A student (voluntarily or not) will have to
record himself/herself talking about what he/she did last weekend. Based on
his/her speech, the students in the classrooms will have to use affirmative and
negative sentences to talk about their assumptions pertaining to their peer’s
last weekend activities.
The skills practiced include: writing (questions),
listening (to someone’s speaking), speaking (the student making the recording).
Process:
One of the students will leave the classroom
and make a recording about the activities that s/he performed last weekend. The
student must have a recording device which is compatible with the computer in
the classroom. The recording should not exceed 2 minutes. The speaker will use simple past tenses of at least 3 verbs.
The speech will also include one of
the expressions:
after a while, all of a sudden, on top of that,
believe it or not, actually;
The student
will be given 10 minutes to prepare and record the speech.
Back in the
class, the teacher will elicit from students a set of questions that they would
like to ask their colleague. They have to use past tenses as well. The teacher
writes the questions on the blackboard.
Examples:
What did you do?
Where did you go?
Did you go to the movies?
Did you stay home?
Were you alone?
What movie did you watch?
How did you feel after?
The teacher
will assign up to 3 questions to groups of 6 students who must figure out
possible answers to them.
e.g.
What did you do?
I stayed at home and slept all morning.
I went to the mountain with my family.
The student will come back to the classroom.
The teacher has him/her get a look at the questions on the blackboard. Did
he/she answer to any of the questions listed there? The teacher will play the
student’s record. Was the class wrong/right in their assumptions?
The students will have to orally refer to their
assumptions.
e.g. Jane did not stay at home. Actually/ In
fact, she went to the hospital.
RESOURCES:
The
students may consult online/offline grammar resources:
The audio
used is to be found in tumblr:
Evaluation:
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CATEGORY
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4
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3
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2
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1
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Preparation
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Before the interview, the student prepared several
in-depth AND factual questions to ask.
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Before the interview, the student prepared a couple of
in-depth questions and several factual questions to ask.
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Before the interview, the student prepared several factual
questions to ask.
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The student did not prepare any questions before the
interview.
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Formatting & Editing
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The student edited and organized the transcript in a way
that made the information clear and interesting.
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The student edited and organized the transcript in a way
that made the information clear.
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The student edited and organized the transcript but the
information was not as clear or as interesting as it could have been.
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The student did NOT edit or organize the transcript.
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Follow-up Questions
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The student listened carefully to the person being
interviewed and asked several relevant follow-up questions based on what the
person said.
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The student listened carefully to the person being
interviewed and asked a couple of relevant follow-up questions based on what
the person said.
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The student asked a couple of follow-up questions based on
what s/he thought the person said.
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The student did not ask any follow-up questions based on
what the person said.
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Report Writing
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The report is well organized and contains accurate
quotations and facts taken from the interview.
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The report is well organized and contains accurate facts
taken from the interview.
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The report contains accurate quotations and facts taken
from the interview.
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The report is lacking facts and quotations from the
interview OR the quotes and facts are not accurately reported.
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(http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php?ts=1384370889)-
created in Rubistar;
Conclusion:
Such activities may be of help when teacher
wants to drill simple uses of tenses (past, present, future, perfect tenses).
All this combined with vocabulary meant to enrich fluency. The “wow” effect
element, the novelty, would be the
introduction of audio technology in the oral sequences. This involves the
student’s contribution to an interactive lesson, will improve the students
skills in handling various programs so that they can become better “netizens”.
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