Paper 2 / Listening Comprehension / Texto B: Sandra, mi maleta para irme a Francia

First, your students (and might be also possible, that us, teachers are too) might be anxious about listening comprehension because is a new component added to the Ab Initio course, so we have to deal with the uncertainty of being assessed for the first time, not having grade boundaries to rely on, etc.

Because of this, it is important to present these activities in a very comprehensive way to our students, I highly recommend to do pre and post listening activities to help them approach this component and consolidate their learning.

Text A / Up to 2 min Speaker: Sandra Origin: Mexico Audio: 2:04 s
Click here to access the pdf	A possible pre-listening activity: write some questions on the board, such as ¿Quién? ¿Qué? ¿Cuándo? ¿Dónde? ¿Por qué? Give your class a topic and ask them to write as many answers as they can in two minutes

More listening resources:

• The American Association of Teachers of Spanish
• Spanish Listening
• Spanish Resources

Lunaprofe 9/15/2018  2 comments

Paper 2 / Listening Comprehension / Text A: Una tarde con mis amigos

First, your students might (surely) be anxious about listening because a lot of them think they won’t be able to understand anything and that natives speak so fast and with expressions and slang, etc

In order to control that anxiety that may arise I suggest starting off with some simple listening games. We are going to break up activities in pre-listening activities, while-listening activities and post-listening activities.

Listen to Orel from Cuba and answer the questions.

Text A / Up to 1 min Speaker: Orel Origin: Cuba Audio: 25 seconds
Click here to access pdf	Remember that is important to expose your students to different accents and that is really productive to work pre and post listening activities

More listening resources:

• The American Association of Teachers of Spanish
• Spanish Listening
• Spanish Resources

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