Raymond Vickers TS Blog #6

  Date & Time: September 24th, 2025 (630-730)

Location: Virtual (zoom)

Topic/Skill: Listening

For this lesson with Luis, I came prepared with videos to help his listening. I showed him a video by youtuber Mr. Beat titled "Greenland and Iceland Compared" and some podcast clips. I chose the Mr. Beat video because it would be academic listening, and I chose the podcast clips based on entertainment. I knew Luis would prefer the less academic listening, but I wanted to try to train his ears to more academic words. I chose the clips because they were about soccer, a topic we talked about in the previous lesson. At this point I was really challenged by trying to teach listening. I remember I talked with a CIES teacher a day before and expressed my worries about teaching listening, and he agreed with me and said "It is hard. Because you never know what's going on in someone's head - what they are thinking" but he gave me useful tips to employ such as having a pre-lesson or taking the videos one step at a time. 

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