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!