This week has shown me new ways of teaching listening and speaking activities.

I work with future teachers of English and this means that our students have to have good pronunciation skills and should know what intonation patterns mean. In many cases they will be models for their future students to imitate to. For this purpose, we usually use cassettes and CDs with recorded pronunciation drills and intonation patterns. In addition, when we work with FCE exam groups, we teach listening as part of the test format.

As for speaking, our students are given a lot of speaking activities and among them are follow-up activities which come after listening material.