Listening Activity- Jigsaw

JIGSAW ACTIVITY 

Another kind of listening activity is called jigsaw listening. In this tlie teacher divides the class  into groups.  Each groups listen to  a different parts of tlie story on the  audio cassette. In the next stage learners send one or two members from their group to other groups.  They will  b e  asked  several questions  and  will  have  to  respond  and  give information. The various groups this collect the missing sequences of the story. Now, in  their original  groups  they speculate  on  tlie last  part  or  the  ending of tlie story.

Usually, a mystery story is most suitable for jigsaw listening. Each group then reposts to the class their version of the story - what their point of view or conjecture is. Other groups  are free to react, question  and  comment,  Finally,  [lie teacher plays the  final part? of tlie recording, which resolves tlie mystery.  Though  this  is  an extremely challenging  and  interesting activity  yet  it  has  some problem  areas  in its  implementation.  First  of all,  tlie  teaches  lists  to  make multiple recordings so  that  the groups can listen to  tlie recording simultaneously.  If she has only one recorder then only one group can listen to the recording at a time, in  which case,  she  has  to  think  of  techniques  of how  to  occupy  the  other  groups  who  are waiting their turn to listen or for others to finish

This  can also  be  difficult  to manage in  terms of noise, availability  of  recorder, etc. One of the solutions,  ?  though  not an  ideal one is  to  let  the  learners  listen to the first part of the story. Then they  are set a task which  involves predicting what is going to happen, or who the murderer is (in a number mystery).  Each group presents its case .giving reasons for their  'theory'.  They  are questioned  by  other groups.  Finally, the teacher plays the final  part of the cassette. 

REFLECTION: 

Jigsaw listening activities are so good for students in order to listen diferent tones of voices and diferent points of views, they have to conect parts of a story to get the final part of it. Though this activity help a lot to the teacher and the students, it has some problems when the teacher can't play multiples recording. Jigsaw activities are so good for practice simple past, this kind of activies work not only with story, but also with song. Here is the link for an jigsaw activity..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWl3Xav3zwk