Distraction Listening Comprehension Activities, Worksheets for ESL & ELL

Looking for a way to help your intermediate ELLs improve their listening comprehension? Use this auditory comprehension lesson focusing on Distraction to help improve listening comprehension skills while learning how to train your attention. The worksheets give you scaffolded listening activities that encourage students to actively process what they hear, fostering a deeper understanding of auditory information. It’s excellent for raising your students’ listening skills while getting them to understand why they become distracted in the first place and how to use their attention as a tool for success.

To learn about Distraction and Attention, students listen to a fictional Podcast between two speakers three separate times over the lesson. During each part, they’ll listen for different information, learning how the human brain becomes distracted in the first place and getting tips on how to focus their attention. All this while training their listening skills!

The worksheets in this listening comprehension lesson are built around the topic of Distraction, and its perfect for ESL and ELL students. Use it for grades 8-10 in your upper middle or high school classes to get your students practicing their listening while engaging with their learning. The activities can also serve as a powerful tool for speech and language therapy.

With this download, you’ll get:

• High resolution student workbook pages
• Printer-friendly gray-scale student workbook pages
• Google Slides access, for distance learning
• A .mp3 AND .wav recording of the Podcast
• Transcript pages of the Podcast
• A pre-planned lesson plan with answer keys

This is a great auditory comprehension resource that you can use for an entire class period. The lesson is scaffolded with a variety of tasks that get your students Learning about distractions in their lives before they begin listening. Then, the deeper learning starts.

LEARNING ACTIVITIES INCLUDE…

• four different vocabulary activities
• scaffolded listening questions for gist and detailed auditory comprehension
• short answer questions
• fill-in-the-blank questions
• true, false, or not given questions
• critical thinking questions and prompts
• group discussion questions
• prediction task
• whole-class speaking activity (Find Someone Who…)
• awareness campaign project
• guided instructions throughout
  

This package includes a PDF file that can be opened using your preferred PDF reader. It comes with a lesson plan and a mp3 audio file, which can be opened using any media player.

You'll get three ways to use this incredible reading resource:

• high-resolution pages
• gray-scaled pages for easy printing
• AND digital access for distance learning Google Slides®

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Terms of Use:

This resource was created by Landon S. Seigler of ESL Lifeline, all rights are reserved. The original purchaser is permitted to use it for a single class only. Teachers have the authorization to share this product with their students (and parents) through email, Google Classroom, or the Internet, as long as the site is password protected. Distribution to your own students is allowed, but uploading it to the Internet for public access and download is not permitted.

**If you wish to use this resource for multiple classrooms or share it with fellow educators, please purchase additional licenses from ESL Lifeline’s store on TpT – they are discounted. Your adherence to these usage terms is greatly appreciated.