SCHOOL SUPPLIES: Listening assessment

Maggie and Steve:
School supplies
Infant Education: 6th year
2nd Unit (3rd Term)

PEN	ERASER	PENCIL	SHARPENER	RULER

Find and circle these school supplies. 

Use green for the big ones and red for the small ones.

This is a kind of activity which works pretty well with any level of students.
There are different varieties of procedures, but we are going to develop the basic one with these very young learners.
It is also a good assessment tool to check the different strategies the pupils use to solve the task, since they not only have to recognize the proposed vocabulary, but also they need to control the degree of attencion span (the amount of concentrated time one can spend on a task without becoming distracted), which is required to follow basic instructions as they have to change the colour of the circle (big in green and small in red) depending on the size of the school supplies they are listening to.

Listening is one of the 4 skills that teachers must develop in our classes but we don't need to use formal listenings such as CDs or any other kind of materials from the internet, basic instructions in class can combine in a perfect way with other interactive elements to provide listening practice with the youngest pupils in our ESL classes.

Other listening activities

Este é un tipo de actividade que funciona moi ben con calquera nivel de estudantes.
Existen diferentes variedades de procedementos, pero estamos indo a desenvolver o básico con estes alumn@s de infantil.
Tamén é unha boa ferramenta de avaliación para comprobar as diferentes estratexias que @s nen@s utilizan para resolver a tarefa, xa que non só teñen que recoñecer o vocabulario proposto, senón que tamén precisan controlar o grao de atención (a cantidade de tempo concentrado que poden pasar nunha tarefa sen chegar a distraerse), o cal é necesario para seguir as instrucións xa que teñen que cambiar a cor do círculo (grande en verde e pequeno en vermella) dependendo do tamaño do material escolar que están a escoitar.

Escoitar é unha das 4 habilidades que os profesores debemos desenvolver nas nosas clases, pero non precisamos usar audicións formais, como CDs ou calquera outro tipo de materiais de internet, as instrucións básicas na clase poden combinar de forma perfecta con outras elementos interactivos para proporcionar a práctica da escoita cos alumnos/as máis novos nas nosas clases de ESL.