

Make a list of as many situations as you can think of where peopleĪre listening to other people in their own mother tongue. Task Real-life listening situations Stage 1: Gathering samples to comprehend satisfactorily in a variety of situations. :E listening is,Īnd what sorts of things the listener needs to be able ro do i:. Makes sense to examine first of all wbat rea~.

Successfully in real-life Ii renif!g situations. room is that students should learn to function In principIe, the objective of listening comprehension practice ~ Unit One: What does real-lite listening involve? For example, in most situations the speaker is 105 BOX 8.1: L1STENING SITUATIONS interview theatre show instructions telephone chat loudspeaker announcements lesson, lecture radio news conversation, gossip committee meeting watching television shopping story-telling © Cambridge University Press 1996 Stage 2: Finding typical characteristics Looking at the list you have compiled, can you find sorne features that seem to be common to most of the situations? Such features might be associated with: the kind of language that is usually used the kind of interaction what the listener is doing. Are there any iteros there which you had not thought of? Are there any items you had which this list does not inc1ude? In any case, if you put the two lists together - yoms and mine - you should have a fairly representative selection of listening situations. Now compare your list with that given in Box 8.1. One way of doing this task is to talk yourself through a routine day and :to e all the different listening experiences that occur. These inc1ude, of course, situations where they may be doing other things besides lis e g - speaking, usually - but the essential point is that they need to be able te understand what is said in order to function satisfactorily in the situa ♰:1. Task Real-life listening situations Stage 1: Gathering samples Make a list of as many situations as you can think of where people are listening to other people in their own mother tongue.

This being so, it makes sense to examine first of all wbat listening is, and what sorts of things the listener needs to be able ro do i:. é-room is that students should learn to function successfully in real-life Ii renif!g situations. Module 8: Teaching listening Unit One: What does real-lite listening involve? In principIe, the objective of listening comprehension practice in th.
