TKT- Matching activity - Listening subskills

Listening for getting the general idea of what is being said.

• Listening for specific information

• Intensive listening

• Predicting

• Listening for gist

Listening to a song for pleasure at home.

• Listening for specific information

• Intensive listening

• Extensive listening

• Infering

Using background music and speaker’s body language to know his/her ideas.

• Deducing meaning from the context

• Listening for specific information

• Listening for details

• Infering

Listening to a speaker’s intonation to guess his/her attitude toward what he/she is talking about.

• Intensive listening

• Listening for gist

• Extensive listening

• Infering

Focusing on the needed or necessary information and ignoring unnecessary details while listening.

• Predicting

• Listening for gist

• Listening for specific information

• Listening for details

Trying to make sense every word while listening in order to find out exactly what happened and why it happened.

• Deducing meaning form context

• Infering

• Extensive listening

• Listening for details

Listening takes place in the classroom, and learners must work on listening skills and study how language is spoken.

• Predicting

• Intensive listening

• Extensive listening

• Listening for details

Using clues (pictures in the textbook) to guess what the speak is going to talk about before listening.

• Predicting

• Intensive listening

• Extensive listening

• Listening for details