UNIT 7

        

 LISTENING 

Listening is part of the receptive skills and involves understanding spoken language. It also tests students' knowledge of the English language because they must use the context of the words to give an accurate answer. Listening has many differences with speaking and written language like the use of punctuation, organization of ideas, interpretation of facial expressions and use of grammar as well as vocabulary.
Furthermore, it is important to mention that there are different text types such as lectures, announcements, conversations or stories which usually contain relevant information, interaction pattern and grammatical structures. In fact, listening has sub skills that are evidenced when someone needs to listen for a specific reason, detail or infer information. For example: listening for specific information, that helps to listen specific details such as dates or names. For beginners, the teacher can use songs or dialogues where students can be able to complete a gap-fill activity writing specific information, this activity is very useful for students because they hear and write the word that they just need to acknowledge.

To create a lesson in listening skills is necessary following many patterns that helps to have a guide how this can be structured. First pattern is giving an introduction to the topic focus on vocabulary and trying to encourage students to learn something new, this pattern is called introductory activities. Another pattern is named main activities, here students have some listening activities that help to develop and improve their listening subskills. At the end, there are post task activities, in this part students need to discuss about what they understood through debates or explanations. For instance, the teacher starts the call asking questions about farm animals until create a glossary with students. After that, students received a worksheet with true/false statements and teacher play the listening for twice. Finally, teacher and students check answers on the board.

Additional Information

TKT Cambridge

References

Khaliq, A. (2021). Listening subskills. Retrieved from Listening subskills: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzTSyhB2GPo

Perera, N. (2018). TKT Cambridge. Retrieved from TKT Cambridge: https://www.tktcambridge.com/module-one/listening/

Spratt, M., Pulverness, A., & Williams, M. (2011). The TKT Course Modules 1, 2 and 3 (2nd ed., TKT Course). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9781139062398