EN 2103: Listening in English III
Listening and comprehension at different levels
· Context questions
(memory recall)
· Inference
questions (interpretation, synthesis recall)
· Life experience
questions (questions which are related to students’ own life.
Summarizing: identifying important information
· Types of
activities:
- Identify correct summary-sentence from several
possible sentences
- Summarizing in note-form under given headings
- Students listen to the taped story / talk etc. read
two or three summaries based on them and decide which one is correct.
Comparison of information
· Types of
activities:
- Students listen to taped news broadcast (previous
day’s news)
- Read the newspaper reports,
- Discuss and find the differences in language and
content.
Predicting
· Guessing or
predicting outcomes, causes, relationships etc, based on information presented
in a conversation, or narration
· Activities:
- Tape recordings of conversations, interviews,
narratives etc. Cassette is stopped at stages and predicts what can be
followed.
- Listen and talk about characters / possible
situations / settings, etc.
Follow-up activities
· Focus: Apply
information the students have gathered through listening in other situations,
encourage students to go beyond the text
· Activities:
read more on the topic and write a composition / speech
Jigsaw listening
· Different groups
listen to different but connected passages each of which supplies some points
of what they need to know. Then they come together to exchange information in
order to complete a story or perform a task.
