Listening is a skill that is often neglected in language teaching. In alignment with CAPS and the communicative approach to language teaching,
find a teaching cycle of your choice in the CAPS document, indicate the page number, choose a topic,
and design a phase appropriate procedure for conducting a listening task/activity.
One teaching cycle that can be used for conducting a listening task/activity is the "Interaction and Manipulation" cycle, found on page 8 of the CAPS document for Languages.
Topic: Daily Routines
Procedure:
1. Pre-listening:
- Introduce the topic of daily routines and ask students to brainstorm a list of activities they do every day.
- Show pictures or flashcards of various daily routine activities and have students discuss in pairs which ones they do and do not do.
2. While-listening:
- Play a recording of a dialogue between two people discussing their daily routines.
- Provide students with a worksheet with questions related to the dialogue, such as "What time does the first person wake up?", "What does the second person do after breakfast?", etc.
- Have students listen to the dialogue and answer the questions individually.
- Play the recording again, allowing students to check their answers.
3. Post-listening:
- In pairs or small groups, have students create their own dialogue discussing their daily routines.
- Have students perform their dialogues to the class or to another group.
- Encourage feedback and discussion on the different routines shared.
This activity integrates listening skills with speaking skills and allows students to practice using language in a meaningful context. It also aligns with the communicative approach to language teaching by focusing on real-life communication tasks.