How to teach Academic Listening Skills - A worksheet for any TED talk or lecture

Academic Listening worksheet for TED talks or lecture listening practice. Contains FULL & detailed lesson plan to help teach advanced listening skills to ESL, IELTS, EAP and/or university students. It targets all the necessary skills that competent students should have and works on improving them. These worksheets are a template which can be used with any TED talk, lecture or presentation.

The worksheets include:

• Pre-listening task: Prediction and brainstorming tasks - stimulate prior knowledge and generate ideas about the lecture's content.
• Note-taking and vocabulary builder - Guides for effective note-taking and exercises to understand and use new words.
• Micro & Macro summary writing - Activities to summarise specific points and overall ideas from the lecture.
• Peer assessment - Opportunities for students to critique and learn from each other's work.
• Investigation of bias and reliability - Exercises to evaluate the credibility of the information presented.
• Critical Thinking tasks: opposing arguments, thesis statements, and examining evidence - Tasks to develop and exercise critical thinking by analyzing arguments and evidence.
• Contemplation of further research that could be undertaken - Prompts for students to explore related topics or deeper aspects of the lecture.
• Full, Detailed Lesson Plan with theoretical underpinnings explained - Step-by-step guide for teaching, with explanations for the teaching approaches used.

There are 2 versions included. One is a colorful, engaging worksheet for middle-school or younger learners while there is a more 'serious', black-and-white one for older or university-level students or for easy printing.

This is a full undertaking that gives your students comprehensive practice of the skills that they need for college/university/life. I have taught Academic English and Study Skills classes at university for several years and these are the core listening skills that we want students to have.

Of course, you do not have to do the full worksheet every time and you can pick and choose from the activities so that it best fulfills the needs of your students.

I really believe in the quality of this product and would love to hear your thoughts on it and how it went with your students. I am always looking to improve, so if you have any additional methods that you think would be a good addition to these worksheets, please get in touch at: TheLaughingLinguist@gmail.com

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