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1. Contextualize the listening activity by embedding it into a relevant theme.
2. Integrate all modalities with listening into your lesson plan (reading, writing, listening, speaking as well as language strategies and grammar).
3. Activate prior knowledge and create context with an interactive warm-up activity.
4. Generate (elicit) vocabulary needed for the lesson through the interactive warm-up activity.
5. Demonstrate with realia vocabulary and concept building
6. Co-construct, co-construct, co-construct!  For meanings of vocabulary, for ideas, and concepts. 
7. Elicit, elicit, elicit!
8. Model all activities.  Don’t just explain.  Demonstrate the “how to” first yourself, then with a student, and then have a student or students demo it as well.  There’s never too much modeling!
9. Scaffold to listening activities.  Here’s a sequence to follow: Build vocabulary through a picture story (lower level) or a discussion (higher level) or other warm-up activity, read the same or similar script as the listening script, listen to the listening script, answer comprehension questions, practice speaking, do a cloze conversation, *create your own written conversation, *now do an improvisation!  (*Extension activities)