208 Part III: Teaching Skills Classes
✓ Reading a book related to the listening text: Listening texts that
involve a popular personality or event are useful because you can often
find other material based on the same topic, such as biographies or con-
spiracy theories. Books and articles maintain the students’ interest after
a relatively short listening text. They provide more cultural input and an
opportunity to put to good use the vocabulary they encountered during
the listening tasks.
Films are often based on books and if you use a movie clip for the listen-
ing activity, you can check whether the book exists as a graded reader (a
short book written especially for EFL students at a particular level) and
get students to compare the film and book version of a particular scene.
Ask whether the director did a satisfactory job. They can try directing
another scene to be acted out by classmates.
