This time I had the opportunity to sit in on an Advanced Listening class. The class was slim due to the Muslim holiday but there were still about six students. Debbie used her time wisely despite the abridged student attendance, we had a few minutes of introductions and class conversation. She then let the class listen to a story on the internet with the text in cloze format. They listened with out the text then had them try to fill in the blanks, then they listened with the text before them. Etc. What was interesting was after the first listen Debbie asked the class if they understood the story and the class barely responded. Then when going on to fill in the blanks they all knew about 90% of the answers.
Debbie would stop on the more difficult/ obscure words or phrases and explain them by asking the class then defining with an example as explanation.
A relaxed class but a good example of class-wide extensive reading/ listening. I wishg I sat in on iot before my Listening Lesson project!
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