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 * Maria Asunción**

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 * Activity:** Find the differences
 * Level:** Secondary / Batx
 * Short description:** You will read and watch a tv advert and have to spot the differences between what you read and you listen.
 * Objectives:** to improve your listening skills by concentrating on a short text and practice entonation and rhythm as a follow up activity.
 * Assessment:** Check the right and wrong answers and give marks.
 * Link:**

Although I say that the level is for Secondary and Baxt, it can be use at any level. You just select the material and decide which level you can work with. In the same way you can use a listening text, since younger students may be distracted by the images.

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Lluís Miquel,

Hi Maria Asunción

I like very much the idea of listening and reading the transcript at the same time and your activity you have added an incentive, which is spotting the differences. This makes them reflect on the language. In addition to this, you’re using authentic material, and as you know the listenings in the textbook are not very natural, but somewhat artificial to tailor to the needs of a particular lesson plan.

Hi Maria Asunción. This is Nuria.

I love it! It is both listening and reading, and it includes grammar and vocabulary as well. I have noticed this site has more exercises of the same type. There are so many OERs(Open Education Resources) out there right now!

I have also noticed that you only have to click on the wrong __#|word__ and it chages to the correct one.

It is simple in the best sense of the word. Then what is assessed is so clear that students can correct each other. What do you do with listening activities? Do you group them together for assessment purposes? How many of them do you do per term? What percentage of your mark do they represent?

Furthermore, the add is very good and it brings nice memories to those of us, who are over 50...

M. Asunción

Hi Nuria, I also like the advert. Being over 50 too it brings me back to my childhood. As for the listening activities I usually work in pairs unless it is exam time. Before I do some warming up to activate vocabulary and then we go. I also do picture dictation with the lower courses and even running dictation which is great fun, but it depends on the groups and their behaviour. In that web there are many list activities, also fairy tales. With the ones in Batx we watch news for a coupke of minutes and then comment on them. Listen to a song, often included in the lesson, and copy the lines in a piece of paper that I cut into pieces with a line or two of the song, speech, story,, give them a piece each and a bit of blue tack and when they hear their part they stick it on the blackboard. Books have a lot of material now, but something different is always welcome.

As for how many per term, usually three in ESO and two in Batx, as formal assessment. The percentage in Batx is 10% (we have to give 25% to writing and 25% to speaking so not much for the rest) and in ESO 15%.

Nuria

Thanks for answering the questions. I guess the percentage assigned to listening so small because you favour productive skills. I do the same, although I am not sure it is the right policy. Students are assessed for listening in Selectividad. I can see you love making students move!

The more popular with my students this year was dictations where they had to understand a sentence uttered at normal speed by a native.I do not why, but they loved the

Hi M. Asunción,

This is Sònia. I didn't know this webpage but I've found it really interesting. The directions are simple and students can try as many times as they need. I also think that using samples of real English is more motivating and meaningful for students at all levels. I'll definitely include this resource in my list. Thank you!!!!!