- Tell students that you are going to say 2 words and they should put their thumbs up if the words start with the same sound.
 - Listening 1 – listen to sounds on CD, then ask the pupils to:point to a picture of the object making the sound and name it, point to a real object that makes the sound and then try it out.
- Listening 2 – listen to the sound of real objects with eyes closed. Children guess and name.
- Sound bingo – listening to sounds on tape and covering the correct picture.
- Sound walk – pupils drawing pictures or writing down the names of the sounds they hear on the walk.
- Grouping sounds – animals, musical instruments, vehicles, etc.
- Odd one out – ask the pupils to identify the sound that is not part of a group of sounds, eg. dogs barking, pig grunting, cow mooing, musical instrument playing.
- Musical discrimination – discriminating between loud/quiet, high/low, fast/slow notes. This should be part of a music lesson – ask a TA to observe.
- Clapping or tapping rhythms – you can use pupils' names and polysyllable words. This activity can be linked with picture-noun recognition. Pupils can work in pairs, using picture-noun cards – take turns to clap syllable beats and choose the picture-noun card to match the number of beats.
- Same/different 1 – ask the pupils to listen to sets of two everyday sounds and identify those that are the same and those that are different.
- Same/different 2 – ask the pupils to listen to sets of two words and identify those that are the same and those that are different, eg. bat/bat, bat/bet.
- Same/different 3 – ask the pupils to listen to sets of two words and identify those that rhyme and those that don't, eg. cat/mat, bed/bud.
- Hands up 1 – ask the pupils to put up their hands when they hear a particular sound (sounds given one at a time).
- Hands up 2 – ask the pupils to put up their hands when they hear a particular sound against a background of other sounds (figure/ground auditory discrimination).
- Who is it? – choose a pupil to be blindfolded, then ask another pupil to say a short sentence. Ask the blindfolded pupil to identify the other pupil by name,
- Sound bingo – discriminating between initial sounds.
- Rhyme time – ask the pupils to listen to a word. If it rhymes with the word that they have in their hand then they can keep it. The winner is the first person to collect five rhyming words.
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