Listen and clap your hands!

Another fun and simple way to do a listening exercise with your private student/group is to, in advance, pick some words from the text or the conversation which is going to be given and write them on the board. Tell your student(s) to keep their books closed and explain that they're going to listen to the CD and pay attention to those particular words. As soon as they hear one of them they're supposed to clap their hands only once. Notice that a certain word can be heard more than once and they should clap hands every time they listen to it. Nice!