Chapter 1: Listening Skills
What you need to learn in this chapter
This chapter focuses on enhancing students' ability to understand spoken language in various familiar contexts. By employing appropriate listening strategies, students will develop the skills necessary to comprehend extended texts, recognize spoken genres, and interpret the main ideas and specific details presented in a wide range of topics.
Students will practice independent comprehension of more complex questions and longer narratives, helping them to engage with spoken content more effectively. They will also learn to recognize attitudes and opinions within spoken texts, improving their ability to interpret the speaker's intent and viewpoint.
A key aspect of this chapter involves developing the ability to infer the meaning of unfamiliar words using contextual clues. This skill will enable students to expand their vocabulary and improve overall comprehension without relying solely on dictionaries or direct translations.
Additionally, students will analyze spoken genres by recognizing typical features at the word, sentence, and text levels. They will also gain confidence in understanding classroom instructions and responding appropriately in different listening scenarios.
By the end of this chapter, students will have a stronger foundation in listening and comprehension skills, enabling them to engage more effectively with spoken texts in academic and real-world situations.
Topics in this chapter
1. Understand meaning in a variety of familiar contexts
What you will learn in this topic
- Understand independently the main ideas in extended texts on a wide range of familiar topics
- Understand independently specific information and details in extended texts on a wide range of familiar topics
- Recognise independently attitudes or opinions in extended texts on a wide range of familiar topics
- Understand classroom instructions about familiar topics
- Understand independently more complex questions on a wide range of familiar topics
- Understand independently longer simple narratives on a wide range of familiar topics
2. Use appropriate listening strategies in a variety of contexts
What you will learn in this topic
- Guess the meaning of unfamiliar words from clues provided by other words and by context on a wide range of familiar topics
3. Recognise features of spoken genres on familiar topics
What you will learn in this topic
- Recognise with support typical features at word, sentence and text levels of a range of spoken genres
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