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Students practice their listening comprehension by playing the "telephone" game.  In this foreign language lesson, students listen to a story read by a teacher in their target language and try to remember the details by writing 5 statements about the information.  Students play the "telephone" game using the target language with their class.

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foreign language lesson, listening comprehension, telephone game, english language arts
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Grade
1st - 12th
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English Language Arts
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Duration
1 hr
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