Listening skills

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Listening skills

• April 170th 2012

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Today

• Listening discussion task
• Listening strategy (heavy stress)
• Listening for the main ideas.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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Listening strategy Heavy stress

• Practice (pp.52-53 handout).

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Practice p.52

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

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Practice p.53

• 1. today, tomorrow
• 2. her, me
• 3. school, comic
• 4. ten, twenty
• 5. dad, friend
• 6. ten, nine

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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!

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Listening for main/important ideas

• Also known as extensive listening because we
  need to listen in a more general way.

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Listening for main/important ideas

• Tips
• 1. Take notes when you can
• - Its 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.

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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.

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Listening for main/important ideas

• The main idea is often given near the beginning
  of a dialog (the topic sentence).

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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.

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Listening for main/important ideas

• Tips
• 4. Make predictions about what is coming next.
• - Try to guess what the speaker(s) will say.

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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?

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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

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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

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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!