The objective of this activity is to develop listening comprehension.

PROCEDURE

UNIT ONE, Lesson One

Read "Staff definition" twice or three times, at normal speed and ask pupils to write down the words and phrases they manage to catch, in order to reconstruct the text afterwards.

Work in pairs or in small groups and remember to tell the students to close their books since the definitions are written there.

You can repeat this exercise with other concepts of this Unit as: Treble clef, Measures...

UNIT TWO, Lesson One

For other longer definitions you can use "A, B, C Dictation ".

Ask the students if they want an easy, difficult or challenging activity. Those who choose easy will have letter A, those who choose difficult, will have letter B, and those who choose challenging, will have letter C. Then, read different sentences of a text or definition that you have previously prepared.

E.g. in the Introduction of UNIT TWO you can sort out the text in order of difficulty as follow:

Group A: The other three are: London, Wales and Northern Ireland.
               The official language is English.

Group B: Scotland is one of the four countries that constitute the United Kingdom.
               Scotland forms the northern part of the island of Great Britain.
               This country has one of the most beautiful scenery of the world.

Group C: It has a population over 5 million and an extension of 78.783km2.
               Edinburgh is the Capital although the largest city is Glasgow.
               However, Scottish people have their own language: the Gaelic and it’s spoken primarily in the                North and West of Scotland.

The students have to write down the sentances just when you say their letters (A, B or C), and every time they write, they will use a different slip of paper. Tell them not to panic if they can't do it the first time as they will have an opportunity to get help later. Repeat the sentance twice.

Afterwards, tell the students to group together into same letter groups in order to reconstruct the sentances they wrote down. Check and give them clues to correct the sentances.Then, put the students into groups with at least one A, one B and one C in each group. Now they will have to put their slip of papers into the right order.

Finally make the groups to read out and to correct the text from the book.