Chapter 1: Listening Skills
What you need to learn in this chapter
This chapter focuses on developing students' listening skills to enhance their understanding and communication in the target language. Students will learn to recognize and reproduce language sounds and phonemes accurately, ensuring clear and intelligible pronunciation.
Through various listening exercises, students will practice understanding meaning in familiar contexts, identifying main ideas, and grasping specific details from spoken texts. They will also engage with narratives and classroom instructions to improve their comprehension of everyday communication.
Additionally, students will develop strategies to understand questions on familiar topics and respond appropriately. Emphasis will be placed on using effective listening strategies to interpret meaning in different situations, helping students build confidence in their ability to process and respond to spoken language.
Topics in this chapter
1. Recognise and reproduce target language sounds
What you will learn in this topic
- Recognise and reproduce target language phonemes intelligibly
2. Understand meaning in a variety of familiar contexts
What you will learn in this topic
- Understand the main idea when listening to texts on familiar topics
- Understand specific details when listening to texts on familiar topics
- Understand narratives on familiar topics
- Understand classroom instructions
- Understand questions on familiar topics
3. Use appropriate listening strategies in a variety of contexts
What you will learn in this topic
- Use appropriate strategies to understand meaning
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