Level 3 Certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language

In this quiz, we will analyse where a teacher has gone wrong in his listening lesson and look at alternative ways of running this lesson. First, look at this problem from Mike, an EFL teacher in Poznan, Poland.

“My students were very advanced, so I thought they would be able to understand everything on the recording. It was a radio travel programme from the BBC and in very clear English. But after I played the recording the students couldn’t answer any of my questions. They said they understood the task but couldn’t remember the specific information. One or two of them seemed to switch off in the middle. I thought they would be pleasantly surprised because it was about their city”

Now think about what Mike could have done better. Look at these statements and decide if they are true or false.