TEACHING

LISTENING
 REASONS FOR LISTENING
1- Listening is good to our students pronunciation.
They can hear and understand English being spoken,
the more they absorb appropiate pitch and
intonation, stress and the sound of both individual
words and those which blend together in connected
speech.
 2- Listening texts are good pronunciation
models, in other words, and the more
students listen, the better they get, not only at
understanding speech, but also at speaking
themselves
Listening exercise

Penguins
 DIFFERENT KINDS OF LISTENING.
You should know that there are different types of listening:
Listening for gist: you listen in order to understand the main idea
of the text.
Listening for specific information: you want to find out specific
details, for example key words.
Listening for detailed understanding: you want to understand all
the information the text provides.
 LISTENING STRATEGIES:
Top-down strategies: Bottom-up strategies: Metacognitive
Listening for the main Listening for specific strategies:
idea. details. Plan: They plan by
Predicting. Recognizing cognates. deciding which listening
strategies will serve best
Drawing inferences. Recognizing word- in a particular situation.
Summarizing. order patterns.
Monitor: They monitor
their comprehension
and the effectiveness of
the selected strategies.
Evaluate: They
evaluate by determining
whether they have
achieved the
combination of listening
strategies selected was
an effective one.
 LISTENING SOURCES:
Recorded extracts-on cd- Films with subtitle.
tape or via mp3 players.
Films without subtitle.
Speakers.
Images.
Videos.
Documental.
Earphones .

Movies.
 SUGGESTIONS:

Teacher should no record their own listening materials.

We can download a huge amount of extremely useful listening
material from the internet.
Provide that we are not breaking rules of copyright.
We as a teacher must be careful with the listening that we are
going to use.
The teacher should choose the post-cast carefully.
 DIFFERENT KINDS OF LISTENING.
Live listening (real life, face to face). Live listening is used to refer to
situations in which the teacher brig visitors in to the class.
Role plays. Different characters for the students to talk and listening to.
Listening and watch images at the same time.
Watch Films with subtitle or Films without subtitle.
Listening stories and answer question at the same time.
Listening to music.
 LISTENING SKILLS
Students need to be able to listen to a variety of things in a
number of different ways.
1- Students need to be able to recognize Paralinguistic clues.
2- Students need to be able to Listen for Specific Information.
3- Students need to able to listen for more general
understanding.
 LISTENING PRINCIPALS.
1- Encourage students to listen as often and as much possible.
2- Help students prepare to listen
3- Once may not be enough.
4- Encourage students to respond to the content of a listening, not
just the language.
5- Different listening stages demand different listening tasks.
6- Good teachers exploit.
 LISTENING SEQUENCES
1- Live interview (beginner onwards)
-The teacher brings a visitor (native speaker) or plays a role
as if he were a visitor.
-The teacher gives the visitor an idea of the student level so
he adequate his vocabulary.
-Students are told that a visitor is coming .They should think
in a number of question to ask them to the visitor and take
notes of the answers.
-Follow-up questions (questions by questions) SS can use
some phrases e.g. Sorry. I dont understand what x
means, Are you saying that? , Could you repeat? ,etc.
 BUYING TICKETS (PRE-INTERMEDIATE)
-Have the SS to describe the pictures
in this way they have an idea of the
conversation they are going to hear.
- SS listen to the conversations and
match with the pictures.
-SS fill in the blanks.
-Finally SS work in pairs and practice
the conversation students A and B
and vice versa.
 PRERECORDED AUTHENTIC INTERVIEW NARRATIVE (UPPER-
INTERMEDIATE)
Students are first shown a picture and asked to
speculate who the person is, where he is from,
what he does, etc. then they look at the questions.
- In pairs SS try to predict the answers.
-SS listen to the audio and check their answers.
-The T- can make extra question and plays the
audio twice or three times.
AUDIO AND VIDEO
There are some occasions when it is entirely
appropriate for students to watch video in
relaxed way , but more often we will want
them to engage, not only with the content of
what they see, but also the language and
other features.
 FOUR PARTICULAR TECHNIQUES ARE SPECIALLY
APPROPRIATE FOR ENGLISH LEARNERS.
Play the video without sound:
1.

Students and teacher discuss what they see and what clues it
gives them, and they guess what the characters are actually
saying.
Once they have predicted the conversation, the teacher rewinds
the video and plays it with sound.
 2. PLAY THE VIDEO WITHOUT THE PICTURE:
While the students listen, they try to judge where the
speakers are, what they look like, what they are talking
about, etc.
When they have predicted this, they listen again, this time
with visual images as well.
 Freeze frame:
3.

The teacher presses the pause button and asks the

students what is going to happen next.

4.Dividing the class in half:

Half the class face the screen. The other half sit with
their backs to it.