Listening

           LISTENING

As a teacher, I am aware that listening is among the skills Ss have more difficulty with,   especially when Ss listen to native speakers, or recordings with different accents. Thus, the Ss need training on listening to different kinds of conversations; for instance, advertisements, face to face conversations, dialogues, telephone conversations, watching T.V. programmes and films. An example of a practical guide for listening is shown below.  

Skill: Listening	Sub-kills: Understanding lexis; understanding phonological features; understanding gist/main ideas; understanding specifics/important details; and making inferences by social context, background/real-world knowledge.
Objective: To listen and perform specific activities using a dialogue	Activity: Listen to a dialogue

In this guide, listening is combined with different elements in order to enhance learning such as: visual pictures, answering questions, vocabulary, speaking, information gap activities, and so on.

All the activities are supervised by the e-tutor at all times.