Level: elementary to intermediate

• Make one copy of the coursebook text and then divide it into four roughly equal parts.
• Organise your students so that they are sitting in four "blocks" in the classroom. Coursebooks shut.
• Ask for a volunteer from each "block". Give these four people one fourth of the passage and tell them to dictate their part of the text to their group. Each "dictator" should stand as far from his group as the room allows.
  ( this is a noisy and joyous exercise and you may want to warn colleagues with classes either side of your room.)
• Ask the students who have been writing to open their coursebooks and check their spelling.
• The first time you use a a quadraphonic dictation allow a few moments for feed- back.