Using Tapescripts Annette
Capel
Some suggestions for teachers on how to use tapescripts downloaded
from this website.
There are many ways of exploiting tapescripts successfully, for all these situations:
- in class
- for homework
- in a self-access centre
- on distance-learning
courses (online)
Confidence-building
Students can follow the printed
tapescript as they listen.
Prediction - Cut out parts of
a tapescript and give students the incomplete version.
- Ask them to predict
what comes in the missing parts, after which they can listen to the tape to see
if they are right.
Exam training
Print off copies of the tapescript
for Paper 4 exam training and: - ask students to underline the exact text
which contains the correct answers.
- ask students compare a Part 2 tapescript
with the notes or sentences they have to complete.
- follow the method described
in Unit 3 (see Teacher's Book page 19), where students write questions for the
answers given.
- set written work for Part 3 (five speakers), asking students
to write a paragraph on each speaker, based on information in the tapescript.
- check
which speaker says what in Part 4, giving students the answers to work from.
Choose
a short text and put in an extra word in most lines to use as a Paper 3 Part 4
task.
Vocabulary extension - Work with complete tapescripts,
setting students a target number of words and phrases to find, as in Unit 9, for
example (see Teacher's Book page 57).
- Concentrate on one part of speech, for
example adjectives (see Unit 2, Teacher's Book page 14).
- Ask students to underline
all the topic words (see Unit 20, Teacher's Book page 125).
- Blank out key words,
asking students to fill in the gaps after they have listened.
Revising
reported speech
Ask students to report a speaker's main points, using
a range of reporting verbs (after Unit 13). The Part 3 activities lend themselves
to this, as they are shorter (see Unit 29, Teacher's Book pages 165 and 166).
Pronunciation
Ask students to underline the stressed words or syllables
as they listen.
Fillers
Ask students to comment on the different
ways speakers hesitate or play for time.
Question forms -
Blank out the questions and display them separately, in jumbled order. Ask students
to reassemble the conversation. This could of course be done on computer rather
than with hard copy.
- Choose a conversation that has a good variety of question
types, for example Test 3 (see Teacher's Book pages 117-118) and ask students
to rewrite each question in another way.
Register awareness - Give
students some formal phrases and ask them to find the informal equivalents in
the tapescript, for example Test 5 (see Teacher's Book pages 178 and 179).
- Ask
students to rewrite parts of a dialogue in more formal language or vice versa.
Narration
Ask students to rewrite an interview as a first-person or third-person narrative.
Liz and Dave's narrow escape in Unit 23 would be a good choice (see Teacher's
Book pages 135 and 136).
Spoken model
Some tapescripts could
be used to guide students, for example the instructions for cooking a favourite
dish in Unit 16 (Teacher's Book pages 99 and 100). This tapescript could be edited
so that only a skeleton framework remains, with prompts for students such as
'You need...', 'while you're doing that...', 'It's better if you
use...'.
You will have plenty of other ideas for using these tapescripts.
Why not post your own suggestions on the website! Please email us at eltweb@cup.cam.ac.uk.
Other Cambridge
sites:
Australia
| Cambridge
Journals Online | North
America |
Printing Division ©
Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press
Edinburgh Building
Shaftesbury Road
Cambridge CB2 8RU
Tel: +44 (0)1223 312393
Fax: +44 (0)1223 315052
Contact the Press | Accessibility | Terms of use |  | 
|
