LISTENING SKILLSApril 170th 2012

Today• ‘Listening – discussion task’

• Listening strategy (heavy stress)

• Listening for the main ideas.

Listening-discussion task• Discuss the questions in your groups.

• Extra discussion questions:

• What things do you have in your room right now that you can live without?

• What things are absolutely essential for you?

Listening strategy – Heavy stress• We learned before that we stress new information.

• i.e., “Please pass me my wallet. The blue wallet, not the black wallet.”

• We also use put stress on words to show importance.

Listening strategy – Heavy stress

We also use put stress on words to show importance.

• i.e., “I want to drink soju tonight.”

• This indicates that “tonight” is important.

• “I want to drink soju tonight.”

• This indicates that “soju” is important.

Listening strategy – Heavy stress• Practice (pp.52-53 handout).

Practice p.52

A off, down, bedB last (night) tonightA Saturday, SundayBAbbb

Practice p.53

1. today, tomorrow

2. her, me

3. school, comic

4. ten, twenty

5. dad, friend

6. ten, nine

Listening strategy – Heavy stress

• You should try to listen for this in all situations.

• Helps you to better catch important points.

• Can help you understand the MAIN IDEA!

Listening for main/important ideas• Also known as ‘extensive listening’ because we need to

listen in a more general way.

Listening for main/important ideas

Tips:

1. Take notes when you can:

- - It’s normal to forget things after you hear them.

- Writing can help you remember more easily.

- Writing something encourages you to focus on and

identify the main ideas (and important details).

- - Can help you identify what you do and do not

understand.

Listening for main/important ideas

Tips:

2. Listen for stressed or repeated words/ideas.

• - Often, a speaker will put stress on certain words or repeat ideas important to the dialog.

• - May rephrase the important information.

• - May repeat the important information.

• - May summarize the information.

Listening for main/important ideas• The main idea is often given near the beginning of a

dialog (the “topic sentence”).

Listening for main/important ideas

Tips:

3. Use your own knowledge and experience.

• - Try to make connections between what you are hearing and your own knowledge/experience.

• i.e., If someone is talking about fishing, and fishing is your hobby, you can use your existing knowledge to help you understand.

Listening for main/important ideas

Tips:

4. Make predictions about what is coming next.

• - Try to guess what the speaker(s) will say.

Watch the video• Pre-listening:

• What kind of phone do you have?

• Are you satisfied with the features of your phone?

• What features do you think future phones should have?

Watch the video• Take notes!

• Think about:

• - What is the topic of this discussion?

• - What are the important ideas?

http://www.ted.com/talks/fabian_hemmert_the_shape_shifting_future_of_the_mobile_phone.html

Video 2• Take notes!

• Think about:

• - What is the topic of this discussion?

• - What are the important ideas?

• - What important details are given?

• http://www.ted.com/talks/mark_bezos_a_life_lesson_from_a_volunteer_firefighter.html

Listen-discussion task• There will be a new video uploaded this afternoon.

• Watch the video and answer the questions.

• Bring your answers to class on FRIDAY!