There can be no doubt that Listening is the first and most important skill to learn. A baby needs nearly a year of listening before starting saying its first words in its mother tongue.
Accordingly, Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing would be acquired by the student in this order.
Students don´t speak a lot in front of the class because they don´t know what to talk about. Before starting this activity, teachers need to brainstorm ideas, vocabulary and revise grammar. We should prepare them by going through the context.
Not everybody is confident and talkative, so make sure that there is an atmosphere of respect in the classroom to make this skill easier. However, there could be students who don´t want to participate in these speaking activities. To force them to speak is not a good idea. In some cases, students who are watching, learn as well from listening and they don´t want to take part because they´re shy.
One of the activities we have done has reminded me what we are working in our school.
1. Play some different sounds.
2. The student listen carefully and recognise them. They are learning to pay attention to things they don´t usually realise.
3. The student identify the sound and try to make a story.
4. Role play.
After practising many different short and long exersices, we are convinced that Listening must be included in our daily planning.
In the afternoon, we´ve continued with games to pratise vocabulary such as: Tic Tac Toe, The Coffeepot Game, Last Letter, Word Association, Crosswords, What´s behind you? What am I?, Gesture Game and so on. Learning by playing is a goal to achive by all the teachers.
Unfortunately, Erasmus Course 2017 has finished but it´s not an ending. Last 30th of July, my friend Helena and I arrived in Canterbury with great expectations and all of them have been realised. Thank you very much for giving us the opportunity of having this experience.
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