Activity No. 1: Listen and Write.

The activity is aimed to students with a pre-intermediate level of english. Since the web tool is not that difficult to use, the activity can be aimed at teenagers as well as adults, but not younger children because it would be difficult for them to prepare the audio.

The objective of this task is to create a listening activity.

Students will work in pairs following these steps:

1) Write down a diolgue (about 10 lines) about future plans for the holidays (including will, present continuous, present simple and going to).

2) Once the dialogue is finished and corrected by the teacher, record yourselves reading the dialogue.

3) Now you are ready to work on www.listen-and-write.com. You will first need to create an account in the "Sign up" section. Once you have a user name and password, go to "Submit a new audio". There you will find three options, in your case, choose option one (uploading the audio from your computer). Besides uploading the audio, you can give it a title, add some tags and complete with other information. After this, you will have to add the transcription of the audio (bare in mind the chunks will be considered separated by full stops). Next, you will have to track the audio and assign the corresponding piece of text to each track. Once you have finished this, your listening will be ready!

4) Just to make sure everything went O.K., go to the "My audios" section and select your dialogue. You will find three different kinds of activities. Choose one of them to check that your work is fine.

5) Now that you have your Dictation ready, you can exchange it with another pair of students. The idea is that they do the corresponding activity to your Listening and you do theirs.

6) Evaluate your work and that of your classmates'. On a text document, state what was difficult and what was not for you and your peer. Then, inlcude some points you found interesting or important about your classmates' work on listen-and-write.com and, if there is, what you would change about it. Then, print it and hand it in to your teacher. Inlcude the link to your Dictation and the one corresponding to your classmates' in the text document along with your personal information.

If you follow this link you will find a finished example of a Listen and Write Dication: Sample No. 6: Listen and Write.