Teaching Listening

In a lot of listening tasks, multiple choice questions and/or true/false statements are used. While these are popular methods, it can be argued that their focus lies in ___________, not teaching the students.

Listening for gist, listening for information and listening for inference are ____________ of listening.

__________ listening is an approach which asks the students to first get an overall understanding of what they are listening to before focusing on single words and phrases.

Pick one of the strategies used for top-down listening (p. 337/338) and explain why you think it is a good strategy.

_______________ listening is an approach, where students focus on individual words and phrases as a means to grasp the general meaning of what is being said.

Pick one of the strategies used for bottom-up listening (p. 339) and explain why you think it is a good strategy.

The author mentions some resources that can be introduced to the students to motivate them for extensive listening (e.g. TED talks). What other resources would you offer your students?

Pick one of the forms of live listening (p.341) and explain why you would like to use this method in your own lessons.

What can you do to counteract the disadvantages of audio-recordings?