1. Week 9 ELITE

2. Listening Practice • In your free time, watch English cartoons and less complicated television shows to practice your listening skills • Do not use subtitles or else you will be training your reading more than your hearing • Listen to English Music and radio stations (Youtube is a great resource)

3. Listening Exercise • Listen closely as some sentences are read. Practice active listening by writing down each sentence as you hear it. • Even if you are not sure of the word or do not now the word, just sound it out and write it down as best as you can.

4. Listening Exercise Cont. • Pair up and fill in any blank spaces that you may have missed. • Discuss the meanings of the sentences. • Read them out loud to each other to practice pronunciation

5. Listening to Paragraphs • Listen to the five paragraphs that are going to be read aloud • During each paragraph, write down ten key words that remind you of the main idea for the paragraph • At the end, pair up and discuss your key words with each other • Work out the meaning of each paragraph based off of the key words that both you and your partner wrote down • Write up a one sentence summary by yourself for each of the paragraphs

6. Questions • The paragraphs are going to be read again, one at a time • After each paragraph ends, you will answer five questions regarding that paragraph • These questions will test your reading skills and help you to listen more critically • Answer as many as you can

7. Paragraph 1 • Where does John work? • What does John do? • What are two interesting people John meets? • Does John get along better with poor or rich people? • How did John grow up?

8. Paragraph 2 • How old is Sam? • What are her two activities besides school? • Does Sam go out to play with her friends often? • Is Sam busy? • What does Sam not like?

9. Paragraph 3 • Where does Emily live? • How does Emily eat? • What does Emily not like in the city? • Does Emily get sick often? • Why does her family not worry?

10. Paragraph 4 • What does Bob play? • What does Bob regret? • Where does Bob work? • What kind of a job does Bob not get often? • How much longer does Bob have to wait to go to school?

11. Paragraph 5 • Where did Jenny grow up? • What does Jenny do? • Does Jenny have a lot of materials? • Is Jenny smart? • How does Jenny work with her students?

12. Reading to Children • When reading to children, you have to articulate clearly and animate yourself (move with excitement) • Change up your tone inflections (changes in way of saying the words) to keep the children engaged as the audience • Participants can speed up at exciting parts of a story and slow down at the normal events • Participants can gradually increase their average speed as the children get more familiar with listening to English • Practice this by writing down your own ten sentences and the pairing up to read them out loud to each other with excitement and tone inflections

13. Reading Choices • Choose from a variety of different sources for reading • Below are some websites for printing interesting English stories to read to children • http://www.magickeys.com/books/ • http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Category:Children%27s_Bookshelf • Choose from a variety of stories to keep the children learning • Every few weeks, increase the difficulty of the reading level to help the children improve their listening skills as much as possible

14. Reading Lessons • Come up with three reading lesson plans for helping children to improve their listening skills

15. Example Lesson • Read a paragraph to the children and ask each child to draw a picture that represents the main idea of the paragraph • Then have the children each write one sentence that goes along with his or her picture • Then have the children read their sentences to each other • Then ask the children what they like best about the short story and have them write down a one sentence reply • Repeat this lesson as many times as possible

16. Tactics • Come up with three different tactics for encouraging children to listen closely

17. Example Tactic for Encouraging Children to Listen Closely • Dress up in a costume while reading to the children to keep them interested and engaged • For each story, just come up with a simple design, for example if a story is read on an elephant, the teacher can create an elephant trunk out of gray construction paper and then attached it as the story is read • With each new story, children will become more interested and be able to better enter the story