Let's Learn About Walter

Full tape script of the "Let's learn about Walter" introductory activity. This can be used to make a fill-in-the-blank (cloze) activity.  (13 KB)

Short Skirt / Long Jacket
 

Here is the sound file for CAKE's "Short Skirt / Long Jacket"  The song can be purchased online from your favorite music source; mine are Bugs Music (Korean) or Jukeon (Korean).

HERE are the lyrics for "Short Skirt Long Jacket"

Short Skirt / Long Jacket
 

Here are all the files used to make the lyric cards for the "Short Skirt / Long Jacket" listening activity. This ZIP file contains 6 individual file; one is a blank grid, and the other 5 files are the lyrics for each stanza.  There are no lyrics for the fourth stanza as students are to treat this stanza as a dictation.  (28 KB)

Don't you mean... AKA Carrots are my favorite fruit

This activity focuses equally on listening and speaking.  Learners must identify the incorrect information they hear and correct it using word stress and intonation.  To expand this activity to include writing, have learners make their own cards and then use the learners' cards the next time you do the activity. (24 KB)

9 Squares (cards)

9 Squares (worksheet)

Students listen to a description of a drawing and try to recreate that drawing on their worksheet.  (20 KB)

In-context Minimal Pair Distinction

Students listen to the dialogs and identify which of the two words in each instance are used.  (12 KB)

Sound (phoneme) Distinction

Students listen to sets of words and identify, by number, the particular sound in each word in the set.  (11 KB)

Odd Word Out

Students listen to sets of words and identify, by clapping, which of the three words differs from the other two.  (8 KB)

Word Identification

Students listen to sets of words and identify, by clapping, which of the three words differs from the other two.  (8 KB)

Yes/No Sound (phoneme) Identification 

Students listen to a list of words and identify, by clapping, if a particular sound exists in the word(s).  (8 KB)

Audio files for the 16 squares activity can be found below.  Click play to listen on line, click the link to download the sound file to your computer

Listening Station Dictation Scripts

Here are the scripts for all four stories in the Listening Station Dictation activity.  

Listening Station Dictation Handout

This is the student handout for the listening station dictation activity.

Listening Station Dictation Sound Files
 

Here are the four different stories from Friday's Listening Station Dictation activity.  Each ZIP file contains the individual sentences from each station.  The first ZIP file is the "Sam & Sheri" story (Station A).  The second ZIP file is the "Sheila & Sara" story (Station B).  The third ZIP file is the "Jake & Jane" story (Station C).  The fourth ZIP files is the "Peter" story (Station D).

Population Activity
 

An information gap activity that focuses on listening to large numbers (populations).  The activity consists of one handout for each learner and two sets of cards per group.  Ten cards have world city populations and 10 cards have country populations.

Learners must mingle and get the populations for all 10 cities and all 10 countries.

International Dialects of English Archive

The Speech Accent Archive

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• Music and Reduced Forms (141 KB)

• 2005 EPIK Orientation Article (64 KB)

• 2005 EPIK Presentation (2.3 MB)

• 2006 EPIK Orientation Article (323 KB)

• 2006 EPIK Presentation (1.3 MB)

• 2007 EPIK Orientation Article (550 KB)

• 2007 EPIK Presentation (2.2 MB)

• 2008 EPIK Orientation Article (550 KB)

• 2008 EPIK Presentation (10 MB)

• 2009 EPIK Presentation (19 MB)