You are a wizard, Harry!

The aim of this activity is to improve listening skills in our students. In this activity, we will hear a fragment of Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone audiobook and our students will have to fill de gaps with the different words they hear. 

Apart from improving listening skills I want to encourage them to read this marvellous saga. 

We can proceed like this:

1. First step will be introducing the activity and explain what we are going to do. 
2. Next, I will distribute the worksheet with the gap-filling activity to my students.
3. Play the fragment of the audiobook, pausing it just to let them enough time to fill the gaps.
4. Play the whole fragment again. 
5. Play it a last time without pauses. 
6. Correct the exercise all together. 

Variations: 

• Hagrid's way of speaking can be hard for young learners. You can try to adapt the text. 
• If you are practicing this with young English learners, you can try to give them the words they are going to listen and let them place the words in the correct gap.

Activity: 

Activity key: 

The giant took a gulp of tea and wiped his mouth with the back of his hand. 

"Call me Hagrid," he said, "everyone does. An' like I told yeh, I'm Keeper of Keys at Hogwarts -- yeh'll know all about Hogwarts, o' course. 

"Er -- no," said Harry. 

Hagrid looked shocked. 

"Sorry," Harry said quickly. 

"Sony?" barked Hagrid, turning to stare at the Dursleys, who shrank back into the shadows. "It' s them as should be sorry! I knew yeh weren't gettin' yer letters but I never thought yeh wouldn't even know abou' Hogwarts, fer cryin' out loud! Did yeh never wonder where yet parents learned it all?" 

"All what?" asked Harry. 

"ALL WHAT?" Hagrid thundered. "Now wait jus' one second!" 

He had leapt to his feet. In his anger he seemed to fill the whole hut. The Dursleys were cowering against the wall. "Do you mean ter tell me," he growled at the Dursleys, "that this boy -- this boy! -- knows nothin' abou' -- about ANYTHING?" 

Harry thought this was going a bit far. He had been to school, after all, and his marks weren't bad.

"I know some things," he said. "I can, you know, do math and stuff." But Hagrid simply waved his hand and said, "About our world, I mean. Your world. My world. Yer parents' world." 

"What world?" 

Hagrid looked as if he was about to explode. 

"DURSLEY!" he boomed. 

Uncle Vernon, who had gone very pale, whispered something that sounded like "Mimblewimble." Hagrid stared wildly at Harry. 

"But yeh must know about yet mom and dad," he said. "I mean, they're famous. You're famous."

"What? My -- my mom and dad weren't famous, were they?" 

"Yeh don' know... yeh don' know..." Hagrid ran his fingers through his hair, fixing Harry with a bewildered stare. 

"Yeh don' know what yeh are?" he said finally. 

Uncle Vernon suddenly found his voice. "Stop!" he commanded. "Stop right there, sit! I forbid you to tell the boy anything!" 

A braver man than Vernon Dursley would have quailed under the furious look Hagrid now gave him; when Hagrid spoke, his every syllable trembled with rage. 

"You never told him? Never told him what was in the letter Dumbledore left fer him? I was there! I saw Dumbledore leave it, Dursley! An' you've kept it from him all these years?" 

"Kept what from me?" said Harry eagerly. "STOP! I FORBID YOU!" yelled Uncle Vernon in panic. Aunt Petunia gave a gasp of horror.

"Ah, go boil yet heads, both of yeh," said Hagrid. "Harry -- yet a wizard." 

There was silence inside the hut. Only the sea and the whistling wind could be heard. 

Here's the page I used to create the activity . It is very useful. You just have to write a text and then click in the words you want to work with.

Here's the audiobook reference: SJTVlite. (2023, April 13). Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone complete - read by Jay Scott [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDfVlN-KVoU

Chapter 4: The keeper of the keys. Pages 37-38.