If there is a picture with the task, have students work in pairs. Write all the items on the board in a scrambled order. Students listen and decide which is the main point. If the passage tells a story, choose four or five events. Again, write them on the board in a scrambled order.
Learners listen and put the events in order.
Include one extra event not from the story so students must listen to the entire passage. Listening for Specific Information Choose a group of items that come up several times in the listening passage. They might be content items like names of food, colors or people or grammar items such as -ing verbs, past tense verbs, modals or adjectives. Tell the students what to listen for. Play the passage.