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Interpretive Listening Activities

 * __ Facilitating Listening __**
 * As you guide students through a listening text, you might choose one activity from each of the phases below, depending on the type of oral text/video you are using.

__**Pre-listening Activities**__
 * Brainstorm ideas/vocabulary
 * Use a [|graphic organizer] [|(more graphic organizers)] [|(more graphic organizers)]
 * Ask questions about topic to recall background knowledge
 * Watch part of a video without sound and predict what the text is about


 * __Guided Listening Activities__**
 * Listen for the main idea
 * Choose the most appropriate title
 * Fill in a chart with pertinent details
 * Check all that apply as you listen
 * Listen for the order of events and number
 * Listen for all the words that… (describe feelings, relate to transportation, etc.)


 * __Post-listening Activities__**
 * Comprehension questions (who, what, when, where, why, how)
 * Summarize the text in your own words
 * Give the text an appropriate title


 * __Transfer to Another Mode__**
 * Use the information in the oral text to…(write your own product ad, role play, buying a ticket at the train station, etc.)

Source:[|Ohio Foreign Language Standards]