Cuando sea mayor: develop listening, practise transcription
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can use different strategies to improve my listening and dictation skills.
Vocabulary and transcripts for this lessons
Key learning points
- Successful transcription involves careful listening, writing, and checking, ensuring every word written makes sense.
- Pre-listening strategies are important to help you prepare to listen.
- During-listening strategies help you stay focused, understand key information, and process what you hear in real time.
- Post-listening strategies help you check your understanding and reflect on the content.
Keywords
Transcription - process of listening to spoken words and writing them down accurately
Listening strategies - techniques to improve understanding and retention; they include pre-listening, during-listening, and after-listening tasks to enhance comprehension
Common misconception
Knowing and using one listening strategy is enough.
All three sets of strategies work together, and you should be flexible in applying them as needed throughout the listening process.
Teacher tip
The teacher might consider printing a copy of these listening strategies for students to use when completing a listening activity.
Licence
Lesson video
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Which word is an adverb?
Q2.'Mi padre está __________ a ayudar'. Choose the correct missing word.
Q3.Match the Spanish and English.
Q4.Match the Spanish and English.
Q5.Order the words to say: 'mental health is a complicated topic'.
Q6.Write in Spanish: 'let's go to the pool'.
Assessment exit quiz
4 Questions
Q1.Match the words with the correct missing sound.
Q2.The process of listening to spoken words and writing them down accurately is called ...
Q3.Which advice about applying listening strategies is correct?
Q4.Match the strategy with the correct description.
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The starter quiz will activate and check your pupils' prior knowledge, with versions available both with and without answers in PDF format.
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