Introductory questions:

What instrument are you studying?  What are you listening to?  For fun?  For education purposes? What about non-musical listening?

Listening examples provided by the answers to the above questions:

What's the first thing that attracts your ear? Why? Now listen to the same example again and search for something to deliberately focus on.  What attracted you to that second thing?

What to listen for in music - Copland (Rhythm, Melody, Harmony, Tone color)

I'm asking that students bring recordings of what they are listening to, as well as their instruments to do some experiments on collaborative listening wherein I will play along with a student on a familiar tune and alter elements of style and rhythm to see what their listening can translate into.  If we have time, of course.  I hope people show up, cuz now I'm all excited about it and stuff.

And seriously, the tyrannical redundancy of a seemingly endless ostinato makes me crazy.