How to Teach Listening in English | TEFL Listening Activities, Podcasts, Songs & Accents - S01E16

How can teachers make English listening practice easier, more realistic and more effective?In How to English TEFL Podcast S01E16, Gav and Em explore practical ways to teach listening in the English classroom and help English learners become more confident listeners.We discuss how to prepare learners before they listen, why prediction matters, and how teachers can move from gist to detailed listening without expecting students to understand every word. We also look at podcasts and audiobooks for English learners, changing playback speed, using subtitles and audio scripts, and choosing listening material that matches a learner's interests and level.For teachers, there are plenty of practical TEFL listening activities too. We talk about using songs for gap fills, lyric ordering, prediction, rhyme and colloquial English; exposing learners to different English accents; using classmates as authentic listening practice; and even adding controlled background noise for higher-level students to recreate real-world situations such as cafés and busy workplaces.Whether you're an English teacher, TEFL teacher, ESL teacher or English learner, this episode is packed with ideas for developing listening skills inside and outside the classroom.Enjoying the podcast? Buy Gav & Em a tea or coffee and help support the show:Ko-fi: ⁠https://ko-fi.com/howtoenglishpod⁠Website: ⁠https://howtoenglishpod.wordpress.com/⁠References:BBC Science Podcast50 Things that made the Modern Economy Podcast30 Animals that Made Us Smarter PodcastSpotifyYoutubeDear Hank and John PodcastSerial PodcastCSI TV programmePaul TherouxBill BrysonEd SheeranStephen Fry, Harry Potter, audiobooksMovies on YouTubeNews in LevelsMarket Leader, Pearson English File, OxfordApple, iPhoneGoogleMicrosoft, CortanaAmazon, Alexahttps://www.facebook.com/excitingenglishyoutube/Timestamps00:00 Introduction – How to Listening04:00 Preparing and predicting before listening08:00 Podcasts, audiobooks and playback speed13:00 Films, TV, subtitles and audio scripts18:00 Teaching listening: gist, detail and learner support23:00 Background noise and authentic listening practice26:00 Using songs for English listening activities32:00 Different English accents and listening to classmates36:00 Smart speakers, radio and final listening recommendationsTEFL listening activities • ESL listening practice • teaching listening skills • English listening comprehension • podcasts for English learners • audiobooks for learning English • subtitles for English learners • teaching English with songs • different English accents • authentic listening activities • gist and detailed listening • listening strategies • English as a lingua franca • TEFL classroom activities#TEFL #ESL #EnglishTeaching #LearnEnglish #ListeningSkills #EnglishListening #TEFLTeachers #ESLTeachers #TeachingEnglish #HowToEnglish