LISTENING MICRO SKILLS

Pre-Listening Skills.

• Prediction of the topic(who? what? where? when?), content and answers (ordinal/cardinal number? yes/no? proper/common noun?)

• Comprehension of the task/question. • Background information (finding out what students

know about a topic• Vocabulary buildlng exercises• brainstorming and list making• classification

Whilst LIstening• Listening for gist.• Scanning for specific information. (how do you scan on a listening

exercise?　　 these are for READING exercise• Cultural reference.• Grammatical reference.• Inferring.• Phonetics/Phonology.• Intensive Listening.• Extensive listening.• Bias and opinion.• listening for certain words or phrases• True/false questions• Cloze exercises

Post Listening

• Summarizing.• New lexis.• Paraphrasing• review of new vocabulary• confirmation of understanding of content• Explication or expansion• adding opinions and disagreeing.• Free conversation on a guided topic