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Pre-listening activities An activity which you give to students before they listen to a tape or video. Typical pre-listening activities are:

  • Predicting the content of what they are about to listen to.
  • Eliciting what students know about the subject of the tape or video, what they don’t know, and what they would like to know.
  • A class discussion about the subject of the tape or video.
  • Answering questions about the subject of the tape or video.
  • A script of the tape or video with some of the details replaced by blanks. For example, in an interview, all the answers could be replaced by blanks.