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Listen and write the information about comparative measurements and amounts. 
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Calling in outside speakers can also provide the opportunity for your students to learn about what is going on 
beyond the confines of the school community. If you can, loo
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construction. Once you start asking, you may be surprised at the willingness of all sorts of people to come to 
your school. If you do not have access to many outside speakers, ask fellow Volunteers to come and speak. 
The change of pace and pick-up in energy levels generated by a new face never fails to stimulate a class. 
 Tapes 
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of learners such as air traffic controllers or international telephone operators, your use of tapes should be 
carefully limited. In many cases this limitation will happen naturally. You will not have access to recorders 
which can be heard by large classes, nor to commercially produced tapes suitable for your students. So 
unless your students have specific need to be able to listen to but not see the speaker, do not worry ab
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lot of effort. 
However, you may find some use for tapes in a multilevel class. You could give work to do with a tape to the 
advanced section (preferably no more than seven students), while you work with the rest of the class on 
another project. If you do not have a commercially produced tape and accompanying textbook, you might 
consider making some of your own tapes. You could give your advanced group a tape of a song, such as 
Paul Simon's "You Can Call Me Al," from his album Graceland, and ask them to write clown the words. You 
could record a reading of a story or short passage and ask them to write answers to questions as they listen 
to the tape. You could describe a scene and ask the
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listening comprehension, not to test artistic skills. An example of this kind of listening comprehension "aural 
picture" at a beginning level is as follows: 
Uthai gets up very early in the mornin
parents sell all sorts of things-pots and pans, umbrellas, matches, sugar, shirts, sandals, candy, soap, 
and batteries. His sister sweeps the sidewalk, while he opens the shutters. The shutters have recently 
been painted a bright green. The tem
a more advanced level, you could follow the mini-lecture model laid out b
relatively equal ways to say the same thing. The lecturer also uses pauses, stress, variations in rhythm, 
and variations in intonation to make the meaning explicit. In addition, the lecturer writes notes on the 
board as the lecture proceeds and draws diagrams or pictures as needed.