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 lesson one, 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 sentences 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 sentence
twice.
Afterwards,
tell the students to group together into same letter groups in order
to reconstruct the sentences they wrote down. Check and give them
clues to correct the sentences. 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.