Here are some listening, reading and speaking activities for visual, auditory and kinaesthetic learners. Notice that some activities apply to more than one type of learner.
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| Visual
| Auditory
| Kinaesthetic
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| Listening
| · Picture story invention
· From groups of words create a story
· Card games
· 'Spot the Difference' using pictures
· Storytelling
· Talking about oneself
· Describe and draw
· Describe and arrange
| · Connect sounds to make a story
· Discussion
· Group or pair work games
· Listening to songs
· Discussion
· Giving instructions to make or do something
· Describe and draw
· Describe and arrange
| · Role-play
· Drama techniques
· Group or pair work games
· TPR
· Describe and draw
· Describe and arrange
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| Speaking
| · Storyboard of what the learners are going to hear/what they have heard
· Pictures or flashcards of new vocabulary
· Soundless video – predict the dialogue
· Storytelling
· Sequencing pictures
· Selecting pictures
· Drawing
· Labelling a picture
| · Watching a video with a blank screen
· Information gap listening activities
· Taped readers
· Learner presentations
· Storytelling
· Sequencing pictures
· Selecting pictures
· Making something
· Labelling a picture
| · Following instructions
· Gesturing activities given by the teacher
· Jigsaw listening
· Role extensions, i.e. freeze frame a video
· Mime a recorded dialogue or story
· Sequencing pictures
· Selecting pictures
· Drawing
· Making something
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| Reading
| · Describe the photos in the book
· Discussing a book cover
· Create classroom posters
· Labelling a picture
· Ordering a text
· Making something
· Read and draw
· Identifying a picture
· Sequencing pictures
| · Taped/Filmed readers or stories
· Jigsaw reading
· Reading aloud
· Recording of own reading
| · Role-play extensions of a story
· Act out the story
· Charades (gestures)
· Read aloud sections of dialogue or story
· Acting body movements or emotions
· Making something
· Read and draw
· Sequencing pictures
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Think back to some skills lessons you have done recently and look at the suggestions in the previous section and above. How many different options have you used? Have you tended to focus on particular learning styles i.e. visual, auditory or kinaesthetic? Where could you introduce more variety in future to help your young learners?
