Purpose:

To reduce the difficulty new vocabulary can create when listening

Preparation time: 

5-10 minutes

Materials: 

Listening material, paper and pencils or a whiteboard and markers

Preparation:

Go through the listening and pick some phrases that may give your learners difficulty. Try to think of ways to say those phrases in words that your students already know. Make two lists. The A list has the expressions as they are in the listening and the B list has your alternatives.

Example:      For a listening in which people talk about jobs

            A list               B list

            Full-time        40 hours a week

            Salary             pay

            Part-time        up to 30 hours a week                    

Procedure:

1. Put the words/phrases from the first list on the board and elicit different ways of saying them.
2. Put the words/phrases from list B on the board in jumbled order.
3. Students match the words from list A and list B. Check answers.
4. Do the listening with tasks as you would normally do.