Welcome to
E4 Listening
instructor:
MeiRong Alice
Outline
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Opening, course outline
Listening Tasks
Tips to improve listening
Meet your classmates
Real World Listening
Greeting and Small Talk
Brainstorming
Prediction
Personalizing
Discussing
Listening Tasks II
Cooperating
Practicing
Evaluating
Assessing
Listening Tasks I
Listening for
1 gist
5 phonemic
distinction
2 main idea
Purposes
3 inference
4 intonation,
stress
• Tips for improve your listening
preview vocabulary,
listen with a clear purpose,
take notes efficiently,
organize and review their
notes, and apply.
• Activate your background
knowledge of topics
presented
• Predict as you listen (topic,
how people might react,
what people might say)
• Focus on the purpose of your
listening
Do care and focus on what you
understand not what you don't
understand
• Listen to each other in class
Compare responses and discuss
differences (if you don't get it from
the CD, then try to figure out from
peers' answers)
• Work on the purpose of your
listening NOT each word you don't
comprehend .
• Guess meaning from context .
• Practice listening to English (songs,
movies, TV series, magazines)
outside class whenever possible.
Listening Strategy Focus
• Predict: Think about the ideas before
listening, guess what may happen
• Focus: listen for key words or
information
• Respond: Talk about what you have
heard, make it personally meaningful.
Meet the class pg49
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Fill in the chart page 49
Stand in a circle
Walk around
Music stop
Introduce yourself to a
classmates closest to you by
using the model conversations
with a partner.
Real World Listening
• Predict
• Get the main ideas
• Respond to the ideas
Language Awareness
1. I’d like to introduce you to my friend
Alan.
2. Pleased to meet you, Alan
3. It’s nice to meet you, too, Mr. Gray.
4. Have you met Ellen?
5. No, not ye. It’s a pleasure to meet you,
Ellen.
6. My name’s Bob Wells.
Look
so
familiar
You ______________. Have we met
before?
I don’t think you are from around here.
It might have been two weeks ago, but
I’m not sure.
Has it been a month or a year?
I’ve a funny feeling
that I’ve met you twice.
déjà vu
That’s what they call ___________
You were saying something friendly
Trying to be nice, and now you’re
being friendly, too
One look, one word. It’s the
I’ve
ever
heard
friendliest sound that ________
Your greeting
Thanks for _________________.
I’m glad Meeting occurred
this______________________.
Greetings and small talk.
Make the world go round.
One every winding road I’ve walked.
This is what I’ve found.
Have you written any letters to
your friends back home?
Have you had a chance to do that?
Have you spoken to your family on
the telephone?
taken time for a chat?
Have you ______________
Bow down
_________________,
shake hand
Do whatever you do in your native
land
I’ll be happy to greet you in any way
that you understand.
Have seen
____________________
the latest
movie out of Hollywood?
Have
you
read
_____________________about it yet?
If you haven’t eaten dinner, are
In the mood
you_________________ for a meal
you won’t forget?
Listen and sing alone
You look so familiar. Have we met
before? I don’t think you are from
around here..
It might have been two weeks ago,
but I’m not sure. Has it been a
month or a year?
I’ve a funny feeling that I’ve met
you twice. That’s what they
call déjà vu.
You were saying something friendly.
Trying to be nice, and now
you’re being friendly, too.
One look, one word. It’s the
friendliest sound that I’ve ever
heard.
Thanks for your greeting. I’m
glad this meeting occurred.
Greetings and small talk. Make the
world go round. One every
winding road I’ve walked. This
is what I’ve found.
Have you written any letters to
your friends back home? Have
you had a chance to do that?
Have you spoken to your family
on the telephone? Have you
taken time for a chat?
bow down, shake hand. Do
whatever you do in your native
land. I’ll be happy to greet you
in any way that you understand.
Greetings and small talk. Make the
world go round. One every
winding road I’ve walked. This
is what I’ve found.
Have you seen the latest movie out
of Hollywood? Have you read
about it yet? If you haven’t eaten
dinner, are you in the mood for a
meal you won’t forget?
bow down, shake hand. Do
whatever you do in your native
land. I’ll be happy to greet you
in any way that you understand.
Greetings and small talk. Make the
world go round. One every
winding road I’ve walked. This
is what I’ve found.