Author Topic: Listening Games? (Read 3021 times)

ohitsgary · « **on:** September 15, 2014, 03:31:39 PM »

Out of listening, speaking, writing and reading, I find listening the hardest in terms of finding new listening games.

So far, I've been using chinese whispers, telephone game, bingo, card games, etc. I'm running out of new things to use for the class.

Can anyone give me some new and simple ideas for listening games?

Thanks

toddsqui · « **Reply #1 on:** September 15, 2014, 04:30:31 PM »

Some thoughts I had:

(1) Play a high-action-drama clip with the sound on. Have one student face away from the screen and describe what he or she thinks is going on.

(2) Make some guessing-game activities using the sound files on freesound.org.

(3) You can download a great listening game with animals by clicking here.

(4) Play the songs on this website and then have the students complete the cloze activities.

(5) Make groups of three students each. Have one member read a paragraph of text while another student, playing the messenger, listens to it. This messenger receives the message and then walks to another side of the room where she or he then proceeds to dictate it to the third student whose job it is to write down what the messenger says. First group to complete the entire paragraph wins the game!

(6) Have students sit in chairs, back-to-back. Each student has a blank sheet of paper and a writing utensil. Have the students take turns giving each other directions on what to draw on their respective pieces of paper.

Hopefully these ideas will move you in the right direction!

-T

dma43 · « **Reply #2 on:** September 16, 2014, 12:31:43 PM »

1. I remember seeing a bingo template with a huge emphasis on V/B, R/W, and L/R sounds. As long as you guide them to practice listening.

2. You can even take tests with kids. They hate tests, but they seem to like it when it comes to competitions and games. See who writes the fastest with no spelling mistakes.

3. Two Lands (I don't have a name for this game)

I do this for my phonics classes. Make an invisible half line in class: one half is an 'L' land, the other is 'R' -- of course you can make tons of variations with this. You yell out a word every round and kids have to move to the land that belongs to your word.

For example, if you say 'Lead,' kids have to move to the L land etc... If students get it wrong, they can go to jail, write alphabets or anything. Kids hate to sit anyways.

4. Flyswatter Game

Prepare 2~4 flyswatter games, write bunch of words on the board. Have 2~4 students come up and they have to get the word you call out. If you make them confusing, it could be challenging for them.

That's all I have.

Melyse · « **Reply #3 on:** November 11, 2014, 02:41:22 PM »

In small groups, you can play a musical chairs game.
Have the vocab words or images on different sheets of paper. Place them in a circle, with students standing around. When the music begins, the students must walk around the paper. When it stops, the teacher calls out one word or phrase. Students must try to grab any other paper besides the one that was called. Students that grab these cards are out. Take these cards out of the circle and begin again. The game continues until there is a winner.

This game has worked very well with my fifths graders.

pixelOwl · « **Reply #4 on:** November 17, 2014, 11:23:08 AM »

Hey, I'm not sure what age you give, but here are two games that are useful for practicing specific phonics or blends:

1. Minimal pairs
Students have to follow a path down a treelike-grid according to what they think they hear. Each option has two similar sounding words ex: pear/bear or might/night or lap/rap.

2. Yes or No sounds
If you are practicing specific types of sounds you can play a game where you say a word and students have to give a thumbs up if they hear the specific sound and thumbs down if not. For instance, if you practice the sound ch and say chair (thumbs up), shape (thumbs down). Another variation is that they have to say what vowel is in the word, but this is difficult for most kids so keep the words short and easy.

I hope that helps you a bit.

janet1992 · « **Reply #5 on:** November 17, 2014, 05:11:30 PM »

Here's a few:

Listening / drawing game for describing people:http://mrsbaiasclassroom.blogspot.kr/2014/10/easy-drawing-game-reviewguessing-game.html

Listening and speaking in one: http://mrsbaiasclassroom.blogspot.kr/2014/08/an-esl-spin-on-classic-chinese-whispers.html

Listening and throwing lol : http://mrsbaiasclassroom.blogspot.kr/2014/07/trash-ball-throwing-game-fun-english.html

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