listening strategies

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vmbo b
• Leerjaar 3

English-->listening

 goal of today

Improve our listening skills by using different listening strategies

Why?

Listening:

• in preparation for the CE
• 45% of our time communicating is spend by listening to people (speaking 30%, reading 16% and writing 9%)
• A lot of people find listening the most difficult skill

2 students will leave the classroom.

Activeren voorkennis.

Je ziet de titel. heb je al een idee waar het verhaal over zal gaan?

Listen

How to call the police

2 students leave the classroom.

Audio afspelen OF geprint exemplaar gebruiken om verhaal te vertellen. Doel: globaal luisteren.

Student 1 comes back in class.

A student will tell the story to student 1.

Student 2 comes back in class.

Student 1 tells the story to student 2.

Student 2 tells the story to class.

Listen again

1. Where was Mr. Walker when he noticed

 that there were people in his shed?

2. How many times did Mr. Walker call the police?

3. How long did it take before 

the police arrived at Mr. Walker's house?

How to call the police

Audio afspelen OF geprint exemplaar gebruiken om verhaal te vertellen.

Je weet nu al de vragen, dus je gaat zoekend luisteren om de antwoorden te vinden.

1. in the garden.

2. twice

3. less then 5 minutes.

Answers questions.

Name 2 listening strategies and how to use them.

Listening strategies

• predicting content
• listening for gist 
• detecting signposts 
• listening for details

Predicting content

Video: Imagine you've just turned on your TV. You see a man in a suit standing in front of a large map with the symbols of a sun, clouds and thunder. What do you imagine he is about to tell you? 

Look at the title of a news video or movie: Usually you can predict what the video or movie is about.

Listening for gist

Globaal luisteren: look for content words (the nouns, adjectives and verbs) that can help you form a general picture of the topic of the audio fragment or video. 

Let op zelfstandige naamwoorden, bijvoeglijke naamwoorden en werkwoorden die je kunnen helpen ontcijferen waar het waarschijnlijk over gaat.

Detecting signposts

Signaalwoorden:  there are signposts in language that help us follow what we're listening to. These words, which link ideas, help us to understand what the speaker is talking about and where they are taking us.

Look for linking words: For instance, in other words, to put it another way,  for example, first, second, to summarize, moving on to, moreover, therefore etc.

Listening for details

When listening for details, you are interested in a specific kind of information, perhaps a number, name or object. You can ignore anything that does not sound relevant. In this way, you are able to narrow down your search and get the detail you need.

 

In a listening test, if you are asked to write down the age of a person, listen for the words related to age ('old', 'young', 'years', 'date of birth', etc.) or a number that could represent that person's age. If it is a conversation, you might wait to hear someone beginning a question with 'How old…?'

listening for gist

Listening for gist exercise--> click here

Finished? click here for some more exercises. 

Bonus: lyrics training (vocabulary)--> click here, pick a song and fill in the blanks while listening.