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sms04n

Jan 27th, 2013 04:45 pm

Improving Listening Skills

Hello, so I'm teaching two FCE preparation courses. My students are the worse at the listening portion. Does anyone have any good ideas to help improve their listening skills? I use a lot of news articles from breakingnewsenglish.com I play both the British and American version. Thanks in advance!

wi11iam

Jan 31st, 2013 10:35 pm

Re: Improving Listening Skills

You could try playing them DVDs. If you play them on a laptop and use VLC player you can slow down the speed of the video. If you slow it down to much the speech sounds unnatural. But if you slow it down a little, it might give them more of a chance of understanding. Also, use the subtitles. If they can read the text and listen to it at the same time, this will help them. I've used this with some of my students and their listening improved quite a bit!

sms04n

Feb 23rd, 2013 06:59 am

Re: Improving Listening Skills

Thank you! I don't have that but I've tried some tv programmes using subtitles. Do you know any websites for dictation?

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