3. Teaching Integrated Skills
LISTENING (audio/video) can be:
Warming-up activity
Jumping-off point
Prelude
Central focus
4. 1. Live Listening
While listening:
focusing on listening to the stranger’s answers
– Speaking: asking for information
& clarification
– Structure: constructing questions
– Writing: note-taking
5. 1. Live Listening
(cont.)
Post listening:
– Writing: writing short biographical piece
for a magazine profile
– Listening & Speaking: role-playing
6. 2. Ordering Pictures
While listening:
focusing on the order of the story
– Speaking: recognizing expressions
– Vocabulary: describing events
7. 2. Ordering Pictures
(cont.)
Post listening:
– Listening & Speaking: role playing
– Writing: retelling the story
– Structure: past tenses, sequence markers
8. 3. Listening to a Monologue
While listening:
focusing on the given list of words or phrases
found in the monologue
– Vocabulary: getting familiar with the use
of the given words/phrases
9. 3. Listening to a Monologue
(cont.)
Post listening:
– Reading: using the words/phrases on the
list in a cloze exercise on the
audioscipt
– Writing: summarizing the monologue
10. 4. Being Observant
While listening:
focusing on the situations and conversations in the
film extract
– Vocabulary: recognizing the use of
words/phrases in the real conversations
– Speaking: recognizing expressions
11. 4. Being Observant
(cont.)
Post listening:
– Speaking: describing events
– Writing: narrative writing
12. 4. On the Net
Why?
Attract students’ attention
Encourage e-learning
Develop ourselves to be a tech-savvy teacher
Give variations in our teaching
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17. CONCLUSION
use listening materials
for as many purposes as possible,
both for practising a variety of skills
and as source materials for other activities
In most learning sequences, language skills are integrated. No skill exists in isolation. And regarding teaching listening, we can put it in a number of points in a teaching sequence. It can be the warming up activity of any lesson. It can be a jumping-off point for a speaking activity. It can also be a prelude to a piece of writing, for example. And of course when we are focusing on the listening skills, it will be the central focus in the lesson. In this talk, I am going to share with you some examples of listening sequences which are integrated with the other language skills.
The conclusion is that we should aim to use listening materials for as many purposes as possible, both for practising a variety of skills and as source materials for other activities.