Lesson-1-39 (Listening Skills)

Boromarajonani

College of Nursing,

Surat Thani

English for

Communication

GE-102

Can you

speak

English?

Do you

understand

English?

Teacher Sheila

Ms. Sheila Mae A. Canag

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Bachelor of Science in Nursing

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Diploma in Teaching-Biological Science

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Masters of Arts in Education-Major in
General Science- (ongoing)

​Please introduce yourself Briefly:

Name:

Nickname:

Classroom

Rules

Classroom Rules

Arrive on time

for class

Raise your hand

to speak or
volunteer

Do not cheat or

copy other

people's work

Complete all
assignments

Listen to the teacher
when speaking as well
as to your classmate

Respect

everyone in the

class

Have Fun

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✓ Listening Skills
✓ Speaking Skills
✓ Reading Skills
✓ Writing Skills

Course to Study

Listening

Skills

Listening = is the accurate perception of
what is being communicated. It is the art of
separating facts from statements.

➢ It involves hearing, understanding,

retaining, and recalling.

➢ It involves making sense of those words

and understanding their meaning.

Process of Listening

Understanding

(Learning)

Remembering

(Recalling)

Receiving
(Hearing)

Responding
(Answering)

Evaluating
(Judging)

Process of Listening

1.Receiving

❑

It refers to the response
caused by sound waves
stimulating the sensory
receptors of the ear.

Process of Listening

2. Understanding

❑ It is the stage at which

you learn what the
speaker means.

Process of Listening

3. Remembering

❑ It is an important listening

process because it means
that an individual has not only
received and interpreted a
message but has also added
it to the mind's storage bank.

Process of Listening

4. Evaluating

❑ It consists of judging the

messages in some way. At
times you may try to evaluate
the speakers underlying
intentions or motives.

Process of Listening

5. Responding
❑This stage requires that

the receiver complete the
process through verbal/or
nonverbal feedback.

Casual Listening

vs.

Focus Listening

Casual Listening-listening

without showing much
attention.

Focus Listening-a strategy

that guides students to
listen closely to a text.

Principles of Listening

1.Stop Talking
2.Prepare yourself to

listen

3.Put the speaker at

ease

4.Remove distraction
5.Emphatise

6. Be patience
7. Avoid Personal
Prejudice
8. Listen to the tone
9. Listen to the ideas-
not just words
10. Wait and watch for
verbal communication

Principles of Listening

1. Stop Talking

oDon’t talk, listen. When someone else is talking to

what they are saying, do not interrupt, talk over
them or finish their sentences for them

❖Work at listening

❑ The Poor Listener: Shows no energy output,

fakes attention.

❑ The Good Listener: Work hard; exhibit alertness.

Principles of Listening

2. Prepare yourself to listen

o Keep your mind open

❑ The Poor Listener: reacts to the

emotional words

❑ The Good Listener: interpret to

emotional words. Does not get hung
up on them.

Principles of Listening

3. Put the speaker at ease.
❑The Poor Listener: does not focus on the

speaker.

❑The Good Listener: helps the speaker to feel free

to speak. Nods or uses other gestures or words
to encourage them to continue. Maintain eye
contact but don’t stare- show you are listening
and understand what is being said.

Principles of Listening

4. Remove Distractions

o Resist distraction

❑The Poor Listener: is distracted easily.
❑The Good Listener: fights or avoids

distractions; tolerate bad habits on
others; know how to concentrate.

Principles of Listening

5. Empathise

o Be a flexible note taker
❑The Poor Listener: is busy with forms,

and misses content.

❑The Good Listener: adjusts to topics and

organizational patterns.

Principles of Listening

6. Be Patient

o Hold your fire.
❑The Poor Listener: tends to enter

arguments.

❑The Good Listener: doesn’t judge until

comprehension is complete.

Principles of Listening

7. Avoid Personal Prejudice

o Find areas of interest
❑The Poor Listener: tunes out dry

topics.

❑The Good Listener: sizes

opportunities: “What’s in it for me?”

Principles of Listening

8. Listen to the Tone

o Thought is faster than speech; use it.
❑The Poor Listener: tends to daydream

with slow speakers.

❑The Good Listener: Challenges,

anticipates, mentally summarizes,
weights the evidence, and listens
between the lines to and voice.

Principles of Listening

9. Listen for Ideas- Not Just Words

o Judge content, not delivery.

❑ The Poor Listener: tunes out if delivery poor.
❑ The Good Listener: judges content, and skips

over delivery errors.

o Listen for Ideas

❑ The poor Listener: listen for facts.
❑ The Good listener: listen for the central

theme.

Principles of Listening

10. Wait and watch for verbal

communication

o Be a flexible note-taker.
❑The Poor Listener: is busy with forms, and

misses content.

❑The Good Listener: watches the speaker so

you can interpret body language.

Listening Sequence

1.Pre-Listening
2.While-Listening
3.Post-Listening

​Lesson:

Activity/ Work

​Learning

Check

​Vocabulary

• ​expats-person who live outside their native country.

• luxury- great comfort and extravagant living

• abandon-give-up completely.

• auction- public sale

Multiple Choice

What do the police do to with the abandoned cars?

• sold at police auction

• used it as a personal cars

• converted into patrol cars

Multiple Choice

Why do expats abandon luxury cars in the United Arab Emirates?

• They can no longer afford to pay their car loans

• They can pay their car loans

• They just like it.

• Nothing real reason stated.

Multiple Choice

Where do the luxury car often collect dust in Dubai?

• Airport

• Fishport

• Shopping center

• Garage

Pre-listening

1.Activate schemata: What do I know?
2.Reason: Why listen?
3.Prediction: What can I expect to hear?

While-listening

1.Monitor: (1.) Are my expectations

met?

2.Monitor: (2.) Am I succeeding in the

task?

Post-listening

1.Feedback: Did I fulfil the task?
2.Response: How can I respond

Listening Sequence

​Identifying the sequence of listening

Multiple Choice

Listening to get the details

• Pre-listening

• While-listening

• Post- listening

Multiple Choice

Listener taking down notes.

• Pre-listening

• While-listening

• Post- listening

Multiple Choice

Doing brain storming

• Pre-listening

• While-listening

• Post- listening

Multiple Choice

Problem-solving

• Pre-listening

• While-listening

• Post- listening

Multiple Choice

Critical-thinking

• Pre-listening

• While-listening

• Post- listening

Multiple Choice

Doing intensive listening

• Pre-listening

• While-listening

• Post- listening

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is not a principle of listening?

• Listening to the tone

• Creating

  destructions

• Avoiding personal prejudice

• Putting the speaker at ease

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is not a principle of listening?

• Listening to the tone

• Being parent

• Avoiding personal prejudice

• Putting the speaker at ease

Pre-listening

• brainstorming
• situations
• visuals
• realia
• texts and words
• opinions, ideas, and facts

❑Activate Schemata

While -listening

• Listening for gist
• Listening for details
• Inferring (making deductions)
• Active participation
• Note taking
• Dictation (intensive listening)

Post-listening

• checking and summarizing
• discussion (personal response)
• creative response
• critical response
• information exchange
• problem-solving

Multiple Choice

English is Jamaica’s Official Language

Jamaica is the third-largest English-speaking country in the Western Hemisphere. Jamaica uses ^1. ____________ English because it was a British colony. Like Canadians, however, Jamaicans have adopted many American words, phrases and spellings ^2. _______________. English is Jamaica’s official language and is taught in schools, but Jamaica also has its own informal language called Jamaican Patois (also spelled Patwa or Patwah). This is an English-based Creole language with West African influences. In Jamaica, Patois is mainly a

^3. ___________ language. The structure is different from English in many ways. For example, there is no ^4. _________________ agreement.

 

• British

• in recent years

• spoken

• subject-verb

Multiple Choice

English is Jamaica’s Official Language

Jamaica is the third-largest English-speaking country in the Western Hemisphere. Jamaica uses ^1. ____________ English because it was a British colony. Like Canadians, however, Jamaicans have adopted many American words, phrases and spellings ^2. _______________. English is Jamaica’s official language and is taught in schools, but Jamaica also has its own informal language called Jamaican Patois (also spelled Patwa or Patwah). This is an English-based Creole language with West African influences. In Jamaica, Patois is mainly a

^3. ___________ language. The structure is different from English in many ways. For example, there is no ^4. _________________ agreement.

 

• British

• in recent years

• spoken

• subject-verb

Multiple Choice

English is Jamaica’s Official Language

Jamaica is the third-largest English-speaking country in the Western Hemisphere. Jamaica uses ^1. ____________ English because it was a British colony. Like Canadians, however, Jamaicans have adopted many American words, phrases and spellings ^2. _______________. English is Jamaica’s official language and is taught in schools, but Jamaica also has its own informal language called Jamaican Patois (also spelled Patwa or Patwah). This is an English-based Creole language with West African influences. In Jamaica, Patois is mainly a

^3. ___________ language. The structure is different from English in many ways. For example, there is no ^4. _________________ agreement.

 

• British

• in recent years

• spoken

• subject-verb

Multiple Choice

English is Jamaica’s Official Language

Jamaica is the third-largest English-speaking country in the Western Hemisphere. Jamaica uses ^1. ____________ English because it was a British colony. Like Canadians, however, Jamaicans have adopted many American words, phrases and spellings ^2. _______________. English is Jamaica’s official language and is taught in schools, but Jamaica also has its own informal language called Jamaican Patois (also spelled Patwa or Patwah). This is an English-based Creole language with West African influences. In Jamaica, Patois is mainly a

^3. ___________ language. The structure is different from English in many ways. For example, there is no ^4. _________________ agreement.

 

• British

• in recent years

• spoken

• subject-verb

Question?

Evaluation

Test

Evaluation Test

Part-1

Evaluation Test

Part-2