ESL Listening Activities and Games | ELL Listening Ideas for the Classroom

Sometimes it can be hard to come up with new and innovative games and activities when it comes to ESL listening. It doesn't have to be! Have a look at these engaging and fun ESL listening activities and games for all levels and ages. Check out this video for plenty of ideas to improve your classroom lesson plan with ESL listening! ---------------- Need more ideas for the ESL Classroom? Fun and engaging ESL activities: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfK-D2ItUHQ&t=1s ---------------- Want to find out more about teaching English listening skills? Check out: https://www.eslactivity.org/english-listening-tip/ ESL Listening Activities for Teenagers and Adults: https://amzn.to/3f4d2cc https://www.facebook.com/eslspeaking https://www.pinterest.ca/eslspeaking/ #listening #teachingenglishwithjackie #eslactivities #teachingenglish #eslgamesforkids ---------------- Even more Ideas for the TEFL Classroom: https://eslspeaking.org/ ---------------- Check out this ESL listening lesson demo from @That Teacher Chris https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olkVB2KgpbQ ---------------- Timestamps 0:00 Intro 0:13 Flyswatter 0:52 Dictogloss 1:29 Dictation 2:18 Does it match? 2:46 Me too! 3:04 Conclusion Transcript for ESL listening games and activities: Hi everybody, it's Jackie from eslspeaking.org. Today's topic is ESL listening activities and games. If you want to help your students out with their listening skills, then you'll want to check out these activities. Number one is the flyswatter game (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=488eabHRk0E&t=1s). If you want to have some fun in your class, definitely check out this game. Get two fly swatters and divide the class into two teams, then write up a bunch of your vocabulary words on the board. And then one student from each team comes up to the front, gets a fly swatter, and then you can, for higher-level students just describe the word. The first person that hits it gets a point. Or, for lower-level students who are just learning how to read, you can say the word and then they can just hit the word. Then erase it, add a new vocabulary word and then two new students come up to play until everyone has had a chance, one or two chances to do it. Number two is dictogloss (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F-IkZZqvFM). This is for higher-level students. Come up with a passage. I usually write it myself or you can find it in ESL textbooks or online or whatever for the topic or the grammar or the vocabulary that I want to hit. Then put students into pairs. They have a pen and paper and I read it out at a faster than normal pace. The students have to take notes and then they can compare with their partners to try to recreate what they heard. Do it again, read it out again and then students do the same. Finally, they can compare what they have with the original one. Number three is dictation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxnsWh77tMM). Okay, I know this is kind of old school and maybe you're feeling like, oh what's going on here? This isn't the communicative approach. Yeah dictation still has some value if you want to help students improve their listening skills and you can actually see in black and white, do students understand these words or can they hear these words or can they spell them? Can they do punctuation? There are very few activities that will put it on paper as black and white as this. So come up with some sentences and then just say them slowly to your students. They can dictate them and then to level up the difficulty, I will say questions and then I get them to answer them. Or I'll say statements and then I get them to make the questions. All right, the next one, does it match? I'll write a bunch of words on the board or a sentence. I'll probably put words. This is more of a beginner game. So I'll put like a cat, cow, com, maybe a whole bunch of c words in a row. And i'll say okay, number one cat, does it match? Yes. Number two, calm. Oh, I don't think it matches. That is actually a cow. So you can do that kind of thing with your students. The last one is me too. So I get students to come up with true statements about themselves and they have to say them out loud. For example, I like ice cream. Students have to listen and if they also like ice cream they say, me too and put up their hands. It's very simple but kind of a nice way for everyone to be active in your class. All right, if you like these ESL listening activities, be sure to give this video a like, subscribe, leave a comment and also be sure to check out the full blog post with even more ideas for teaching listening.