Chapter 1: Listening Skills
What you need to learn in this chapter
In this chapter, students will refine their listening comprehension skills by understanding meaning in a variety of familiar and unfamiliar contexts. They will practice using appropriate listening strategies to process information effectively across different spoken genres.
Students will develop the ability to independently grasp the main ideas and specific details in extended texts, even when encountering unfamiliar topics. They will also work on recognizing attitudes and opinions within spoken content, allowing them to interpret nuances and speaker intentions more accurately.
Through structured activities, students will enhance their ability to follow classroom instructions, respond to questions, and understand more complex narratives. Additionally, they will practice using contextual clues to infer the meaning of unfamiliar words, expanding their vocabulary and comprehension skills.
By the end of this chapter, students will be able to engage with spoken texts more confidently, recognizing key linguistic features at word, sentence, and text levels across a range of spoken genres.
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 and some unfamiliar topics
- Understand independently specific information and details in extended texts on a wide range of familiar topics and some unfamiliar topics
- Recognise independently attitudes or opinions in extended texts on a wide range of familiar topics and some unfamiliar topics
- Understand classroom instructions about familiar topics
- Understand questions on familiar topics
- Understand independently longer more complex narratives on a wide range of familiar topics and some unfamiliar 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 and some unfamiliar topics
3. Recognise features of spoken genres on familiar topics
What you will learn in this topic
- Recognise with little or no support typical features at word, sentence and text levels of a range of spoken genres
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