Listening texts:

• Informal talks

• Speaker visibility

• Single learning – finding the general message and as many details as you can

Students problems:

• Trying to understand each word

• Native-sounding speech

• Difficult to understand long listenings

Types of short- responses excercises:

• Obeying instructions

• Ticking off items

• True/false

• Detecting mistakes

• Cloze/missing words or phrases

• Guessing words from oral definitions

• Identyfying general topic or basic information

Types of long- responses excercises:

• Answering questions

• Note-taking

• Paraphrasing or translating

• Summarizing

• Long gaps filling

Extended responses:

• Problem solving

• interpretation

Extensive listening – listening to get a general understanding

Intensive listening – ‘live’ listening: reading aloud, story-telling, interviews, conversations; teacher should be: organiser, machine operator, feedback organiser, prompter

Listening can be:

• a main event of the lesson

• the jumping-off point to difficult activities

• ‘listening and acting out’ part

Music/songs Videos/Cd’s/films

+ reason for speaking +interesting

+interesting for students +real-life situations

- hard to choose - inappropriate level of difficulty

- hard to find - quality problems