GESE 9 Technology Listening
How is the development of technology related to intelligence? In this download, there is an independent listening task about technology to help Grade 9 students prepare for the GESE 9 Technology conversation area and the GESE Grade 9 in general. It provides lots of good vocabulary and language of the grade and is a good way to reinforce the lexis of technology. The listening is about how technology is related to intelligence in modern life. It can also be used by students preparing for the ISE II or the ISE III exam and the independent listening task.
How to use the GESE 9 Technology Listening Activity
There are several ways you can use this resource. Firstly, you can just use it as a listening exercise to help improve students listening skills. Ask students to listen once to find the gist of the listening. Then they listen and take notes about what they hear and report back the main ideas about how technology increases and decreases intelligence. The answers can be found in the key on the PDF file. It’s a good idea to go through the listening together after listening twice and pick out any parts the students didn’t understand.
Next, you could get students to work in pairs and make notes while they listen. When they have listened twice, they work together to try and rebuild the text, as close to the original as possible. This is called a dictagloss activity and it helps students with their sentence formation and with reinforcing the language of the grade. Probably, you should just use one section of the listening for this activity or it will take too long and be too difficult.
Finally, you can also use the text as a springboard for discussion. After reporting the main ideas of the listening text, ask the students to discuss whether they agree or disagree. They could also write an essay about the relationship between technology and intelligence and their opinion of it.
We hope you like this listening text. The download below contains the listening in an mp3 file and a pdf with the audio script and the answer key. Click on the red button to download.
File: GESE 9 Technology Listening
Why not try our other GESE 9 resources? There are conversation question cards, vocabulary mind maps and reading/writing lessons for the different conversation areas.