Scrambled Lines

Objective: To develop listening skills, including referencing and listening for detail

Steps:

1. Choose a section of the dialog and mix up the lines. You could put the lines on strips of paper and give each pair of students a set to put in order, or you could write the lines on the board. Help your students to work out which is the first line.
2. Books closed. Have the students order the dialog as they think it should be. If you are using strips of paper, have students tape them to the board.
3. Play the audio program and ask students to check if they were correct.

Example: The following example is for New Interchange 1, Unit 13: "May I Take Your Order, Please?" The Snapshot appears on p. 80 of the Student's Book.

Scrambled Lines (On the Board or on strips of paper):        Sure. Where would you like to go?        I love it, but I'm not really in the mood for it today.        Well, what do you think of Indian food?   1   Say, do you want to go out to dinner tonight?

Acknowledgment: Jim Roth, Universidad de Especialidades Espíritu Santo, Ecuador.