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Creating a listening activity

Learn how to create a Sonus listening activity from a digital sound file and run it in class.

Procedure

Proceed as follows to create a listening activity:

  1. Store the digital sound file in a place accessible to the language lab (a memory stick, a virtual drive, the teacher’s computer,…).
    If you don’t have a digital file, but a CD or other medium, please digitise the files first (There is a mini-manual on digitising and CD ripping).

  2. Go to File Activities.

  3. Click Sonus

    .

  4. Click Add file

    .
    Optionally, click Add attachment

    to send an attachment.

  5. Click Options for this activity.

  6. Choose an appropriate Sonus mode.

    • Playback only (recommended):
      The students can individually pause, stop, rewind, ... the extract, but they cannot close the program, open a new file, record, ... .

    • Teacher Control only:
      ​      The students have no control whatsoever over the sound file. The teacher decides when to pause, play, ... with the controls at the top of the screen.
      ​

  7. Start and stop the activity by clicking

    and

    .

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