Improve listening skills in the classroom with an engaging True or False Active Listening Activity.
Use this activity to refine listening skills. The PowerPoint includes 16 images and is accompanied by sample scripts describing each of the images.
How Can You Develop Listening Skills in Students?
Regardless of which strategies you use to develop listening skills, the goal is for students to demonstrate active listening.
If you’re wanting to improve students’ listening skills, you need to provide them with lots of opportunities to listen with a purpose.
This can be achieved through:
- listening to and following instructions
- playing listening games, e.g. ‘I Went to the Shop…’
- playing drawing games that involve listening to instructions and then drawing appropriately
- listening to short stories and being prepared to answer questions relating to them.
Boost Listening Skills with A New Listening Activity!
Our True or False Listening Activity helps direct students’ listening through its use of a visual stimulus. Each image in the PowerPoint of this resource has a matching story for students to listen to. Students listen to the description read by the teacher while viewing the image and decide whether the information is accurate or not. Vocabulary may be adjusted to suit the language level of the students.
Lindsey Phillips, a Teach Starter Collaborator, collaborated on this resource.
If you’re looking for other resources that encourage attentive listening, try:
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The true or false activities are great! It is interesting what some students miss though.
Hi Kelly We're so pleased you're finding this resource helpful. It's amazing what we assume our students are hearing isn't it?
This looks interesting. Looking forward to using it. Thank you.
Hey Zuriette, lovely to hear from you! We're so glad you find this resource interesting - we'd love to hear how it goes in your classroom!