Listening – Unit 7

This chapter refers to another receptive skill which is listening. It involves making sounds of language meaningful. Listening is one of the most useful skill, it help student in many ways. While student listen to they can learn more vocabulary, improve their intonation and pronunciation.

In order to understand what we hear, it is necessary to be able to deal with all the characteristics of spoken language. I mean, in spoken language we do not use what exactly we find on books. For example in a typical conversation we can hear incomplete sentences, utterances, hesitations, and others.

Something really important that I could learn in this chapter, is the listening subskills students need to be able to handle. If we give our students a listening text, we may ask them to listen for the main idea or for general understanding. Besides, they can also look for specific details such as numbers, names or dates.

After all, I can sum up that a teacher has to look for the best way to improve not just students’ listening skill, thus the other skill too. Encouraging students to talk and listen to way they really like, it can be a good way to keep them motivated.

Here I leave a video which help you to improve you skill.

Referencias

Mary Spratt, A. P. (2011). The TKT Course. United Kingdom: Cambridge.

Harmer, J. (2007). How To Teach English. Harlow: Pearson Education.