Listening

This book examines how teachers can motivate students to develop confidence and independence in listening. Over 70 classroom activities are offered.

Goodith White is a lecturer in the School of Education, University of Leeds, UK

The authors and series editor

1

(2)

Foreword

3

(2)

Introduction

5

(5)

How to use this book

10

(3)

Becoming a good listener

13

(25)

What's in a word?

13

(2)

Tapefriends

15

(1)

Sounds of silence

16

(1)

Getting the frame

17

(1)

Up the garden path

18

(1)

Interrupting

19

(2)

Over to you

21

(1)

What went wrong?

22

(2)

Sight and sound 1

24

(1)

Sight and sound 2

25

(1)

Tapes for the blind

26

(2)

The good listener

28

(2)

Learning through listening

30

(2)

Design your own listening course

32

(2)

Taped feedback

34

(1)

Listening outside class

35

(3)

Helping students to create their own listening texts and tasks

38

(17)

Students making their own recordings

39

(1)

Soundtracks

39

(2)

My home

41

(1)

Sounds of my day

41

(1)

Fun with sound effects

42

(1)

Designing a `self help' tape

43

(1)

Serial story

44

(3)

Using teachers' voices

47

(1)

Gossips

47

(1)

Describe and draw rooms from stories

48

(1)

Imagining

49

(1)

Students designing their own tasks

50

(1)

Listening in role

50

(2)

Guest speaker

52

(1)

Tape library

53

(2)

Micro skills

55

(18)

Individual sounds

56

(1)

Wall dictation

56

(1)

People's sounds

57

(1)

Weird words

58

(1)

Discrimination quiz

59

(1)

Word stress

60

(1)

Holiday stress

60

(1)

Identifying words in a stream of speech

61

(1)

Haunted in room 325

61

(3)

Shouting match

64

(1)

Predictaword

65

(1)

Snakes and stars

65

(1)

Wrong word quiz

66

(1)

Sentence stress

67

(1)

Audio books 1

67

(1)

Stresses and pauses

68

(1)

Longer stretches of speech

69

(1)

What's next?

69

(1)

Intonation

69

(1)

Kind or cruel?

69

(1)

Is this person about to stop speaking?

70

(1)

Attitudes

71

(2)

Adapting published materials

73

(15)

Overcoming the `overhearer' effect

74

(1)

Overhearers

74

(1)

Participants

75

(1)

Personalizing the listening material

76

(1)

How do these pictures fit in?

76

(1)

Character and voice

77

(1)

Word bingo

78

(1)

Our questions and answers

78

(1)

From answer to question 1

79

(1)

From answer to question 2

80

(1)

Filtered listening

81

(1)

Changing the listening passage

82

(1)

Listening to dialogues

83

(1)

Predict a dialogue

83

(1)

How authentic?

84

(2)

Monologue into dialogue

86

(2)

Using authentic listening material

88

(19)

Listening to the news

88

(1)

News for all

88

(2)

Audiences for the news

90

(1)

News values

90

(2)

Comparing the news

92

(1)

Adapting the news

93

(1)

Shortening the news

93

(1)

The World Service

94

(1)

The news expanded

95

(1)

Other radio/television programmes

96

(1)

Station surfing

96

(1)

Weather diary

97

(1)

Sports temperatures

98

(3)

Listening to politicians

101

(1)

Radio advertisements

102

(1)

Opinion programmes

103

(1)

Other kinds of authentic material

104

(1)

Lectures

104

(1)

Audio books 2

105

(2)

Telephoning

107

(12)

Your telephone personality

108

(3)

Mobile telephone

111

(1)

Telephone the class

112

(1)

Telephone voting

113

(2)

Answering machines

115

(1)

Real-life telephoning

116

(3)

Listening projects

119

(14)

Interview for a magazine

119

(3)

Voice of the people

122

(1)

Desert island discs backwards

123

(2)

Making a news broadcast

125

(2)

A radio play

127

(3)

Local radio

130

(1)

Oral history

131

(2)

Appendix 1: How to make good quality recordings

133

(2)

Appendix 2: Sources of listening materials

135

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Bibliography

138

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Index

140

(1)

Other titles in the Resource Books for Teachers series

141

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