What are Pre-Listening and While-Listening Activities?

What are Pre-Listening and While-Listening Activities?

Pre-Listening activities prepare students by getting them interested in the topic and that gives them a greater chance of success in any given task .

While-Listening Tasks consists of a series of activities that a learner does while listening to a passage in order to show their understanding of what was heard of.
Those two stages lead to activities which help students reflect on what they have learned.
10 Most Common Post-Listening Activities:

Post-Listening tasks are activities that requires the use of speaking and writing skills since learners are expected to use the language creatively.

Using the language creatively means that learners complete tasks to create something new with the information they just learned.
These are ten of the most common post-listening activities that you can use in the classroom:

Check and Summarizing

The first pre-listening task is called check and summarizing.
Teachers can check understanding by asking students to summarize the information they heard, this can be done orally or in writing.
Students can make pairs and then they can talk during a minute to another student, once the minute ‘s over the change partner and share their views with another classmates.
Discussions

One of the post-listening activities that a teacher can do is asking students to have a short discussion about the topic.

The topic for the discussion must be taken from the listening task that they previously did and should be interesting enough to inspire comments and debates.
Information Exchange

In this activity you ask students to listen to a passage and ask another to listen to a different passage, when they finish, they share they information with each other and make sure that they understand the message the passage was intended to give.

Problem Solving

Students listen to a passage with the intention of solving a problem. Some problem-solving task types such as solving moral dilemmas and solving mysteries will motivate students to listen carefully to a passage.

Deconstructing a Listening Passage

Most books have transcripts at the back of the books, those transcripts are often unused but you can use them to exploit features such as pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar and discourse markers.

Disappearing Dialogues

Another activity students can do to promote critical thinking skills is erasing parts of the dialogue and then asking students to fill in the blanks with phrases they remember or other phrases that might fit perfectly into the dialogue.

Test your Classmates

One of the best post-listening activities consist in quizzing their classmates.

You can ask students to prepare a set of questions that another student will have to respond, they can prepare a multiple-choice quiz, short answer questions or true and false statements.