While you have your students in class you will want to give them plenty of opportunities to work on listening comprehension. The following activity involves you reading a passage in Spanish while students actively listen for meaning and for grammatical or pronunciation errors that you intentionally make.
Pick a passage from the chapter you are on in your textbook. This way what you read will contain the vocabulary and grammar the students are currently studying. If there are no reading passages offered in your book make up a short one yourself. This will be more work for you, but the advantage is that you can pick the vocabulary and grammar you want to cover. You would just have to print out enough copies of your passage for the entire class.
Tell your students that they will be following along in their books or handout while you read a passage in Spanish. Students are to raise their hand when you pronounce a word incorrectly, conjugate a verb incorrectly or if you skip a word. When a student indicates that you made an error he must tell you what the error was and how it should have been said. You can award a prize for the student who catches you on the most errors. Another way to do this is to split the class into groups of fours and have one of the students in the group be the reader. The reader’s job would be to read the passage and intentionally make errors like the teacher did above.
Students will have to listen very carefully to what you are reading. You have the option of focusing on grammar or vocabulary by deciding where to make your errors. There may be some overzealous students who raise their hands all the time. You can limit the amount of times a student can raise his hand per sentence. I’ve found this exercise works well with most classes. Take about ten to fifteen minutes to complete this activity and move on to your next task. I would say this activity will work from middle school all the way up to college.