ISE Foundation Hobbies and Sports Listening
In this download, there is an independent listening task to help ISE Foundation students prepare for the ISE Foundation Hobbies and Sports topic area and the ISE Foundation Independent listening task. It provides lots of good vocabulary and language of the grade and is a good way to reinforce the lexis of sports. The listening is about a British ski jumper.
How to use the ISE Foundation Hobbies and Sports Listening
There are several ways you can use this resource. You could just use it as a listening exercise to help improve students listening skills. Ask students to listen twice and task notes about what they hear and then ask them to report back 5 facts and then ask some follow up questions.
Alternatively, you could get students to work in pairs and make notes while they listen. When they have listened twice, they work together to try and rebuild the text, as close to the original as possible. This is called a dictagloss activity and it helps students with their sentence formation and with reinforcing the language of the grade.
Finally, you could use the listening text to have a competition. Students work in small groups, they listen and take notes, and then they have to write as many facts as they can on a piece of paper. Give one point for a correct fact and take a point away if the fact is incorrect. The team with the most points is the winner.
We hope you like this listening text. The download below contains the listening in an mp3 file and a pdf with the audio script and the answer key. Click on the red button to download.
File: ISE Foundation Hobbies and Sports Listening
Why not try our other ISE Foundation resources? There are conversation question cards, vocabulary mind maps and reading/writing lessons for the different conversation areas.