Keep Your Students Engaged with Our Listening Comprehension Quizzes

Help your students develop critical thinking and comprehension skills with listening comprehension quizzes from Listen to the Butterfly in Hempstead, New York. Our goal is to help students make a connection between the lyrics of popular music and the lesson plan that you deliver in class.

A Learning Tool Your Students Will Love

Students can't seem to get enough of music. Our fun quizzes allow your students to leave the classroom with a long-lasting connection to the material they are studying, and they can replay each song for extra reinforcement of the lesson. Auditory learners will do well with this method of teaching, and this strategy contributes to a well-run classroom.

We chose to use 10 questions for easy grade calculation, but teachers can modify the quizzes to accommodate different class types such as regular, honors, AP, and so on. Listening comprehension using music is highly regarded by students and it serves as a platform for them to analyze material that is more complex. This includes political debates, oral presentations, and newscasts. The great thing about our quizzes is the swiftness with which students put away their mobile devices just to listen, answer, discuss, and connect.

When we employed this strategy, we maintained control of the music using the speakers that were part of our class computers. We encourage you to try this strategy. We are confident that it will add life to your already creative instruction.

How Listen to the Butterfly Works

1. Maintain silence before initiating the audio on YouTube™.
2. Pass out the quizzes face down on each desk.
3. Play the song for the students.
4. Allow the students to write notes.
5. At the end of the song, students will turn the quiz over and answer the questions.
(We've permitted one minute more than the duration of the song to complete the quizzes.)
6. Collect quizzes for credit, or permit students to switch papers and give answers.
7. Hold a group discussion.

An Example Song Quiz

Let's say your students are studying Romeo and Juliet, and you want to make a point about the early death of Mercutio in the story. Our learning tools make a connection between that theme and a popular song, in this case Rihanna's "Man Down." Additionally, in the case of Romeo and Juliet, Michael Jacksons "Gone Too Soon" captures a critical element of the tragedy then poses questions in the quiz that relate to the text. See an example of that quiz here.

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