EN 1203: Listening in English II
Transfer information
· Listen to the tape
/ teacher and fill in the chart.
· Types of
activities: tracing the route on a map, completing tables/ charts/forms
Retaining relevant points: note taking
· Focus: identifying
relevant points-rejecting irrelevant information
· Types of
activities: listen to a short text (speech / dialogue) and take down important
points. Writing and speaking tasks based on them
Telephone conversations
· Focus: recognize
discourse marks/cohesive devices, understanding different intonation patterns
and use of stress which give clues to meaning and social setting.
· Types of
activities:
- Listening to interactional (social) and
transactional (obtain and provide information) conversations and responding to
tasks based on them
- Taking part in telephone conversations and
responding appropriately.
Using songs for listening
Provide short lessons on vocabulary and grammar
followed with different listening activities; e.g. Fill-in-the-blank task with
the past tense verbs they hear.
Problem solving tasks
Students hear all the information relevant to a
particular problem and then set themselves to find solutions
Story – based techniques
· Activities: Listen
and expand the outline-students listen and write the story while the teacher
describes expanding the story as instructed.
e.g. The Unicorn
The husband woke
up and looked out of the window (describe the husband)
He saw a unicorn
eating a lily in the garden (describe the garden) and so on…..
Ref. Morgan
John and Rinvoluori 1990,’Once upon a time’
· Types of texts:
The best sort of story for this task is a one that can be easily reduced to 5
or 6 sentences. It should be unfamiliar to students.
