Chapter 1: Listening and Speaking Skills
What you need to learn in this chapter
This chapter focuses on enhancing students' speaking and listening abilities, helping them speak confidently with correct pronunciation, stress, rhythm, and intonation. Students will practice listening to and identifying sounds in stories, as well as responding appropriately to stimuli using the correct intonation patterns.
Through various activities, students will develop their ability to speak on related topics with guidance, improving both fluency and clarity. The chapter also emphasizes the importance of participating in conversations in both formal and informal situations, equipping students with the skills to engage in daily dialogues, make suggestions, respond to them, volunteer for tasks, and show appreciation.
Listening skills will be further strengthened as students learn to follow and give instructions, as well as directions around their town or state. They will practice understanding and responding to oral texts by asking and answering questions, identifying main ideas and supporting details, sequencing events, and making predictions.
By the end of this chapter, students will have built a strong foundation in oral communication, enabling them to confidently participate in conversations and respond to oral texts with understanding and clarity.
Topics in this chapter
1. Able to pronounce words and speak confidently with the correct stress, rhythm and intonation
What you will learn in this topic
- Able to listen to, identify and discriminate similar and different sounds in stories
- Able to listen to and respond to a given stimulus by using appropriate words, phrases and expressions with the correct stress, rhythm and intonation
- Able to speak with correct pronunciation, stress, rhythm and intonation
- Able to speak on related topics with guidance
2. Able to listen and respond appropriately in formal and informal situations for a variety of purposes
What you will learn in this topic
- Able to listen, follow, and give instructions
- Able to listen to, follow, and give directions to places around their town and state
- Able to participate in daily conversations: (a) make suggestions (b) respond to suggestions (c) volunteer to complete a task (d) show appreciation
- Able to participate in conversations with peers
- Able to talk on topics of interest in formal situations with guidance
3. Able to understand and respond to oral texts in a variety of contexts
What you will learn in this topic
- Able to listen to and demonstrate understanding of oral texts by: (a) asking and answering questions (b) giving main ideas (c) giving supporting details (d) sequencing (e) predicting
4. Greeting
5. Question and Response
6. Phonics
7. Role Play, Stories (Fiction/Non-fiction)
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