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Listening ActivitiesPresenting a Listening TextListening PracticeThis section looks at activities for presenting listening texts and practising listening skills.receptivereadinglisteninginputproductivewritingspeakingoutputgraphicoral/auralListening, like reading, is a receptive skill. Many of the reading presentation and practiceactivities can be used as listening activities too - we have listed these at the beginning of eachsub-section. For example:4.3 Identify the Main Idea - Write the choices for main idea on the board, then playor read out the listening text. Students choose the best main idea.5.5 Information Transfer - Students listen to the text and put information into adifferent format: draw a picture, map, or graph, fill in a chart or form, etc.Similarly to the Reading Activities section, this is divided into two sub-sections: Presentinga Listening Text, which has different ways students can first hear a text, and ListeningPractice Activities, which has a range of controlled practice activities designed to helpstudents understand the ideas and language from the text.Choosing a Listening TextListening can be a difficult skill to teach and learn in a low-resource environment, where studentsdon’t normally have much opportunity to hear and use real-life English. Choosing a listening textthat is the right level for your students is important - even more important than with a readingtext. If you can only find difficult texts, make sure the tasks are very simple.If you don’t have access to a cassette player, computer or CD audio resources, read the text aloudyourself, or a have a student read it. This is useful, even if you don’t think your English is goodenough. Most of the people your students will interact with are not expert speakers either.Page 15