Listening I

SECOND TERM
Introduction
In order to become good listeners and speakers, students need strategies that will help them meet
their listening and speaking challenges in and beyond the language classroom. Listening to isolated
listening exercises provides only limited instruction; students need to learn a process for each
stage of listening. Similarly, rather than simply speaking and being evaluated in response to a
question, students need to learn the language and strategies for successfully engaging in
classroom discussions strategies that they can apply throughout their academic career.

Didactic orientation
Apart from listening, note-taking strategies focus the students attention on the accurate and
concise recording of material delivered during the process. Effective note-taking is the cornerstone
of effective studying.
The listening material includes several types of spoken English in the form of short stories. Working
through the stories, students do a wide variety of listening tasks, including listening for specific
ideas and following directions. A major focus is put on helping students learn note-taking an
essential academic skill.

Learning Activities
Learning activity 2.1.

Guidelines

1. Listen for main ideas and for details about Howtoons from CD2 tracks13-14
and answer the questions (page 96-97)
2. Listen to some information and do the exercises from CD2 tracks 15 and 16.
(page 98)
3. Listen to the podcast about the topic Sell it yourself and do the exercises
from CD2 tracks 17 and 18 (page 101)

Objective

To relate personal experiences to listening topics.

Didactic
orientations
Evaluation
criteria

Listen carefully and answer the questions

The score assigned will depend on the correctness of the activities.

Learning activity 2.2.

Guidelines

1. Do the listening activities from CD2 tracks 29, 20. About the Great Pacific
Garbage Patch (pages 120-121)
2. Do the listening activities from CD3 tracks 3, 4. About the art of storytelling
(pages 134-135)
3. Do the listening activities from CD3 tracks 7, 8. About the great Banana race
(pages 138-139)

Objective

To integrate information from multiple sources

Didactic
orientations
Evaluation
criteria

Listen carefully and answer the questions

The score assigned will depend on the correctness of the answers given.

Learning activity 2.3.

Listening I
Guidelines

1. Do the listening activities from CD3 tracks 12 and 13. About Personal
numbers. (pages 152-153)
2. Do the listening activities from CD3 tracks 15, 16. About Can numbers Lie?
(pages 156-157)
3. Listen to these parts of Listening 1 and answer the questions. CD3 tracks
21,22,23. (Page 162)

Objective

To recognize spoken forms of numbers to understand details of time, amount,

etc.

Didactic
orientations
Evaluation
criteria

Listen carefully and answer the questions

The score assigned will depend on the correctness of the answers.

Learning activity 2.4.

Guidelines

Objective
Didactic
orientations
Evaluation
criteria

1. Do the listening activities from CD3 tracks 26, 27. About water for Life
(pages 172-173)
2. Do the listening activities from CD3 tracks 30, 31. About Is it possible to be
too clean? (pages 176-177)
To reflect on your impact on the global environment
Listen carefully and answer the questions
Proper inference capacity after analysis will be evaluated.

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Evaluation
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The Tutor

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material for your first and second examinations.