Free Types Of Listening Lesson Plan for 8th Grade Students

Topic: Types of Listening

Objectives & Outcomes

• Students will be able to identify and explain the different types of listening, including auditory, visual, and intellectual.
• Students will be able to use the different types of listening to improve their understanding of a speaker's message.

Materials

• Handouts defining auditory, visual, and intellectual listening
• Examples of each type of listening (e.g. a speech, a video, a diagram)

Warm-up

• Ask students to think about a recent time when they had to listen to someone speak.
• Have them turn to a partner and discuss the following questions:
• What type of listening was this (auditory, visual, intellectual)?
• How did this type of listening help you understand the message better?
• Have a few volunteers share their discussions with the class.

Direct Instruction

• Define listening and list the different types of listening (auditory, visual, intellectual).
• Discuss the importance of each type of listening in different contexts (e.g. auditory listening is more important in a conversation, visual listening is more important when watching a video).
• Demonstrate each type of listening:
• Auditory: Listen to a short audio clip and try to summarize the main ideas.
• Visual: Watch a short video and try to describe the main ideas.
• Intellectual: Try to answer a series of questions about a topic based on a short text.

Guided Practice

• Divide the class into small groups.
• Give each group a short audio or video clip and some questions to answer.
• Have the groups work together to answer the questions and discuss the main ideas.
• Have each group share their answers and discuss as a class.

Independent Practice

• Give each student a project-based assignment that requires them to listen to audio or video clips and take notes.
• Have students use the different types of listening to take notes and pay attention to the main ideas.
• Have students present their notes to the class and explain the main ideas.

Closure

• Review the four types of listening and give examples.
• Ask students to give examples of when they have used each type of listening.
• Remind students that different types of listening are useful for different situations.

Assessment

• Observe students during the group and independent practice activities to see if they are able to identify the type of listening being used and give examples of when they have used that type of listening.
• Collect and review their written responses to the independent practice activity to see if they can give clear and specific examples of when they have used each type of listening.