Collaborative listening activity.
I was observed last week with a group of 15 grade 6 pupils (around 11 years old) learning Spanish. I planned a lesson mostly based on collaborative and group work. The main part of the lesson was to listen to different people talking about themselves: their name, age, nationality, if they have pets... This listening activity was quite challenging as the people on the CD are talking at normal speed (but "too fast" according to my students) and with different accents from Spain and Argentina. So I decided to make the students work in groups and help each other. First, each group had a different question about the listening, then they had to take notes, share them and collect as many details as they could.
I found they really enjoyed working as a team trying to answer a question together and then collecting all the details from the different people. It helped them coping with a challenging activity and also they had the opportunity to help each other out.
You can see details of my lesson above.
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