Listening strategies

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Listening strategies

Slide 1 - Tekstslide

Why is it important to practice listening?

Slide 2 - Open vraag

Here's why
  • 45% of time used in communication is spend on listening     (30% speaking, 16% reading, 9% writing)
  • To avoid misunderstandings
  • To detect emotions
  • To prepare you for speaking

Slide 3 - Tekstslide

Listening strategy 1
  • Predicting content (look at the title, look for pictures, clues). 
       Difficult in an exam


Slide 4 - Tekstslide

Listening strategy 2
  • "Looking" for the gist 
(getting a global picture). 
You need words to further determine
See exercise on the next slide 

Slide 5 - Tekstslide

What do you think of when you look at the following words:
food, friends, fun, park, sunny day

Slide 6 - Open vraag

Listening strategy 3
  • Signposts in language

For example, if a university lecturer says: 'I am going to talk about three factors affecting global warming…' then later on you might hear the phrases 'first of all', 'moving on to' and "lastly". At the end you will probably here 'in summary' or 'in conclusion' to indicate the summarizing of the speech. 
Other words and phrases can function in a similar way. For instance, to clarify ('in other words', 'to put it another way'); to give examples ('to illustrate this', 'for example'), and so on. 

Slide 7 - Tekstslide

Listening strategy 4
  • Listening for details
Listen for words related to the information you need to find...
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.

Slide 8 - Tekstslide

Practice
Listen to the following clip

How old is this lady?
How old does she feel?
In what year was she born?

Slide 9 - Tekstslide

How old is this lady?
A
65
B
112
C
100
D
103

Slide 10 - Quizvraag

How old does she feel?
A
112
B
100
C
65
D
25

Slide 11 - Quizvraag

Slide 12 - Video

In what year was she born?
A
1906
B
1911
C
1909
D
1910

Slide 13 - Quizvraag

Listening strategy 5
  • Inferring meaning 

Imagine you are a tourist in a country whose language you do not speak. In a restaurant, you hand over a credit card to pay for the bill, but the server seems to say something apologetic in response. Even though you don't understand his words, you can probably conclude that the restaurant doesn't take credit cards, and you need to pay with cash instead.

Slide 14 - Tekstslide

Practice 
Explain what we are hearing

  • Listen to the clip
  • Listen to content words to complete the picture for yourself
  • Describe the situation in the next slide

Slide 15 - Tekstslide

Describe the situation

Slide 16 - Open vraag

Slide 17 - Video

Slide 18 - Tekstslide

Slide 19 - Link

Describe the situation in English/Dutch

Slide 20 - Open vraag