Listening and watching strategies

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• mavo
• Leerjaar 4

Basic rules

• We do our work when we should
• We are silent during explanations and raise our hands for questions
• Our phone is nowhere in sight
• We don't eat, drink, or chew gum in class

Listening and watching

learning goals

I know strategies that I can use for watching/listening in English. 

I can understand an old listening/watching exam. 

listening strategies 

• Practise predicting content
• pay attention to linking words (=voegwoorden, zoals but, including, also)
• always start with reading the questions so that you know what to focus on. 
• Do the questions ask you to look for specific details or is it more a general idea of the video?
  
• to get an idea of the central message: the first sentences often give away the content of a video/message, Important facts are often preceded by pauses and are often repeated throughout the fragment.  

watching/listening strategies

• underline the important words in the answers that indicate what the answer is really about. 
• If you doubt between two answers: ask yourself which answer was mostly present in the fragment? What is it really about and what is a detail?
• look for synonyms. Sometimes a synonym of a word in the answers is used in the video. 

watching/listening strategies

• vertaal de vraag voor jezelf naar het Engels dus bijvoorbeeld: "Wat vragen archeologen zich af....?" -> dan kan er een woorden komen als "they question" / "they puzzle" 
•  het woord "hoogte" is belangrijk in de vraag -> wat is de Engels vertaling dan? 

How will you prepare at home for the listening/watching exam?

How to practice? 

• Watch BBC News, Al Jazeera, CNN 
• BCC Newsround: https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround
• Listen to luisterboeken (Audible, Storytel, Nextory) -> Sherlock Holmes series, Harry Potter, Jane Austenetc. 
• Watch a lot of Netflix series (with English subtitles)
• Practise listening at A2/B1/B2  level

Freak Eaters

Wat maak je op uit de context (serienaam, titel)?

     Wat maak je op uit de context (serienaam, titel)?

1. What does Helen eat mostly?
2. What are her alternative foods?
3. Has she ever eaten anything else?
4. What happens if she's offered other food?
5. What especially makes her emotional about other foods?
6. Why doesn't she try other food?
7. Is it a problem for her now?

7. Is it a problem for her now?
8. Why is it important to her to change her diet?
9. Does she believe she can change her habits?
10. How do other people react to her odd eating habits?
11. Do you think she has succeeded to change her diet?

REFLECT AFTER PRACTISING YOUR LISTENING SKILLS

Which aspect was the most difficult in this test?

choosing the correct answer from the multiple choice options

understanding the questions or the answers

understanding the speaker(s)

keeping up with the pace of the speakers

keeping up with the pace of the questions

something else or none of the above