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Teaching English as a Foreign Language

 
 
A gap fill is the most common task set by teachers when listening to a song in class. It is easy to 
prepare and gives a purpose to the listening. However, listen and fill the gaps does not check meaning, it 
merely checks students’ ability to hear a word. Asking learners to predict first helps them focus on 
meaning and collocation. A gap fill is suitable for most songs and most levels but the technique is in what 
words you remove. They should be words that focus on language you would like learners to pay attention 
to. To reduce the difficulty level of the task, you can put certain amount of dash ( _ )according to the 
amount of letters in the deleted words. If you delete the word ‘some,’ for example, you put four dashes ( _ 
_ _ _) in the place of ‘some’.
Some possible gaps might be: 
 Remove words related to grammatical feature e.g. prepositions/articles/past tense verbs/gerunds.
 Remove all words related to a particular lexical set, for example, colors/days of the week. 
 Remove all words with a certain vowel sound or words that rhyme.
 Remove words that are central to meaning.
5. Arranging Jumbled Words 
Give out the jumbled version of the next verse 
- Ask students to unjumble sentences first before listening to the verse.
- Play the song and ask students to listen and check their answers.
Why ask learners to predict first? What kind of song is this task suitable for? 
What level is it suitable for? How should you select where to put the gaps? 


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No how far I might be matter 
I’m always be gonne neighbor your 
There’s only small one planet to be where 
So I’m always gonna be your neighbor 
We hide cannot, we can’t deny 
That we’re always be neighbors gonna 
You’re neighbor, neighbor my 
We’re neighbors 
(A complete lyric of Maher Zain’s song can be downloaded at: 
http://www.islamiclyrics.net/maher-zain/hold-my-hand/) 


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