... Activities for listening practice and communication 1. Sound discrimination. Provide students with many similar contrasting sounds and ask them to discriminate which is which. 2. ... words, sentences, songs, and/ or texts and ask them to write what they hear. This is a very effective measure of comprehension. 5. Close exercises. Songs: Transcribe a song and take out every 5 th ... texts showing anger, excitement, sadness, fear, joy, confusion, etc. Compare and contrast them and ask students to identify and describe what they hear. 8. Progressive listening. Students listen to...