What constitutes real listening practice

Four students, one in each corner of the room, are reading a list of their ten favorite foods and drinks. The remaining students move to each corner, in any order they want, to listen and write down each reader’s list.

The teacher describes a scene: a park with trees, people, and benches. Students draw the scene as the teacher describes it.

Students in pairs do a vocabulary matching activity on a handout. The vocabulary comes from the audio text they just listened to.

Students listen to a song several times. They have a copy of the lyrics with some of the words missing—a gap-fill or cloze activity

Students in pairs read a dialogue from the textbook out loud, each student taking on one role.

The teacher tells the class about something that happened on the way to school that morning.

After students listen to an audio, the teacher asks the whole class comprehension questions. Students volunteer answers.