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Biography listening comprehension strategies

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This is an interesting lesson for those who would like to develop their listening and reading skills and learn about a famous person.

Students can use it to practice and improve their listening skills and teachers can use it in their classes in an interesting way to test students’ comprehension.

I hope you enjoy it!

Language Level: Intermediate

Topic: Pablo Picasso’s Biography

PART 1 – WARM UP

Click here to read Pablo Picasso’s biography on page 2 and learn new vocabulary before the listening task.

Write down new words and check in the dictionary.

PART 2 – PRACTICE

Click here to test your comprehension skills by listening to the Mp3 file and completing the missing gaps on page 4 of the attached file in part 1.

PART 3 – FOLLOW-UP

Clickhere to learn more about Pablo Picasso’s biography and watch a mini video about his life. Write a composition with 100 words based on what you have learned.

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Listening with a Purpose: 7 Types of ESL Activities

Why do we give ESL learners listening exercises?

To boost listening comprehension, of course. Our ultimate goal is to help students understand native English speakers, not only for the mere purpose of comprehension, but also so they may respond accordingly and interact with others.

Now listening comprehension involves a lot more than simply understanding the vocabulary and expressions used. Students must also be able to understand the speaker’s accent and grasp his or her meaning and intention. We listen with a purpose. And what exactly is this purpose? Well, there can be several, so as you plan a listening activity, make sure the purpose is clear.

7 Types of Activities for Listening with a Purpose

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    Listening for the Main Idea

    The purpose of this type of listening is to train students to grasp the main points or general information presented in the audio. Students often get stuck on a detail, a word or phrase they don’t understand and fail to see the bigger picture. So, this is a great exercise for this

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    7 Key Reading Skills to Support Biographies

    Listen to the full episode to hear key reading skills to support biographies:

    I hope you’ve been enjoying this month’s biography theme. The last two episodes I gave tips for introducing biographies to your students and tips for using mentor texts. At this point your students should be familiar with the genre, which leads me to today’s episode. I will be sharing how to use biographies to focus on key reading skills that go hand in hand with this genre.

    These reading skills really lend themselves beautifully to this genre and I’m going to tell you why. Although I could think of even more, today I will specifically be sharing seven key reading skills to target with biographies. The reason I want to talk about this is because you don’t have to always grab that fiction text when you want to introduce certain skills!

    Biographies are factual stories that are typically arranged from the person’s childhood through their adult years. There is really no better genre to use when teaching sequencing. Once you get to thinking about how biographi

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