Listening Skill

Listening Is With The Mind

Hearing Is With The Senses

Listening Is Conscious
LISTENING
 The process of receiving a message, giving the
message meaning, and then responding to the
message.

 In simple words “ Listening is with the mind,

hearing with the senses
Listening
 In Dictionary

 To pay attention to somebody / something that

you can hear

 To take notice of what somebody says to you

 So that you follow their advice or believe them.

 Stages of the Listening
Process

Focusing Analyzing
on the and Remembering
message Evaluating

Hearing Responding
Comprehending
and interpreting
 Types of Listening
 INFORMATIVE LISTENING
 Primary concern is to understand the message

 RELATIONSHIP LISTENING
 To Help An Individual or to improve the relationship
between people - Therapeutic listening

 APPRECIATIVE LISTENING
 Music for enjoyment - presentation, perception, and
previous experience
 Types of Listening

 CRITICAL LISTENING
 Essential in a democracy. the family—there is
practically no place you can go where critical
listening is unimportant

 DISCRIMINATIVE LISTENING
 Differences between sounds are identified – basic to
the other four
Five key elements of active
listening
 Pay attention - Your undivided attention and
acknowledge the message
 Show that you are listening - Convey your
attention
 Provide feedback - Reflect what is being said and
ask questions
 Defer judgment - Don’t interrupt with
counter-arguments
 Respond Appropriately
Five key elements of active
listening
 Pay attention
Your undivided attention and acknowledge the message

 Show that you are listening

Convey your attention

 Provide feedback
Reflect what is being said and ask questions

 Defer judgment
Don’t interrupt with counter-arguments

 Respond Appropriately
Purpose of listening
 To get gist of what the speaker has to say

 To get some specific , particular detail

 Find out what the opinion or attitude of the speaker

is towards a subject

 For the overall summary for the topic under

discussions
CHARACTERISTIC OF GOOD
LISTENING
 BE THERE - attention

 ACCEPT - they differ

 KEEP OUT OF IT - not intrupt

physically , verbally and mentally just listen

 STAY WITH THE OTHER PERSON –

understand other thinking
good and poor listening

GOOD POOR

 No eye contact
 Feedback
 Looking bored
 Eye contact
 Interrupting the other
 Support
person
 Appear to be listening –
 Fidgeting
body language –nodding
in agreement
 Making affirmative noises
from time to time
TO BE AN EFFECTIVE LISTENER
 What you think about listening

 What you feel about listening

 What you do about listening

LISTENING
COMPHREHENSION
 Ask and answer instructional questions by using
simple sentences

 Listen attentively to stories and information and

identify important details and concepts by using
both verbal and nonverbal responses

 Listening comprehension is the receptive skill in

the oral mode
EXTENSIVE
COMPHREHENSION
 To listen something in a relaxed way, not really
concentrating on every word

 Like listening to radio programme and is purely

for entertainment
INTENSIVE
COMPHREHENSION.
 To listen in a great attention

 Like a student to follow some class room

instructions

 Listen to directions
three main kinds of listening
materials that yoU can use for
the listening
 Authentic listening materials

 Recorded listening material

 Live listening materials

Authentic listening
materials

 Speeches recorded in a real situations ,

the listeners hear is real and not
rehearsed
Recorded Listening
Materials
 It specially for teaching purpose

 It helps the listeners to exposure to a variety of

voices and range of accents making it more realistic

 It helps the listener to repeat and replay the

cassette as often as they like
Live listening
 We can adjust the level of difficulty and
familiarity
Context of listening to English
 Listening to radio news, weather forecast,
sports commentary, announcements, etc.,
receiving instructions to do something , to a
talk or a lecture, recorded broadcast,
announcement at airports, Railway stations,
etc

 Listening and responding to telephone

conversations

 Participating in a meeting, seminar or

discussion
Context of listening to English
 Listening to radio news, weather forecast,
sports commentary, announcements, etc.,
receiving instructions to do something , to a
talk or a lecture, recorded broadcast,
announcement at airports, Railway stations,
etc

 Listening and responding to telephone

conversations

 Participating in a meeting, seminar or

discussion
DICTATIONS
 It is common listening exercises which are usually
practiced in the earlier years of school education

 Performing well in a dictation activity requires an

integrative knowledge of a language
Note Making
 In every day life we face the situations like

 A reporter take down a notes during news worthy

event or a press conference

 Students taking notes in colleges / schools

 It is helpful to remember important points or

information
NOTE –MAKING
 Don't write down everything, Be alert to the main
points

 Notes should consist of short sentences

 Think a minute about the material before you start

making notes

 Omit descriptions and full explanations

 Keep your notes short and to the point

 Review your notes

SEMANTIC MARKERS
 It marks the beginning of the sentence, or act
as link between two sentence

 It function to indicate a shift or change in the

tone of the speaker.
SEMANTIC MARKERS
 EXPRESS CONDITIONS
 If, unless, assuming that

 TIME RELATIONSHIP
 Then , after that , when , next, while

 SUM UP MESSAGE
 To summaries, in other words, it amounts to this

 IDEA THAT RUNS AGAINST WHAT HAS BEEN SAID

 But, nevertheless, on the other hand and yet
SEMANTIC MARKERS
 RE-PHRASE WHAT HAS SAID EARLIER
 In other words , that is to say, to put it this way

 ILLUSTRATE IDEA BY GIVING EXAMPLES

 For instance
 Let’s take for example
 for example

 RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ONE IDEA AND ANOTHER

 So, since, therefore, hence, because

 USED FOR LISTING

 Firstly, in the first place, secondly, next, finally, lastly , to begin with
Abbreviations
 Its is a act of shortening
 Descriptor form
 Signifier word form

 This appearance of a word represents , describe or

identify something
 ABBREVIATIONS
 The act of shortening.

 W with (something) a war was fought w/ NATO aid

 W/o without they fought w/o fear

 i.e. that is A Siamese, i.e. a cat, is a fun pet

 E.g. for example , e.g. doctors met here

 Etc et cetera so forth Cats, dogs, etc., good pets

 B/c because we pay taxes b/c it's the law

 B/4 before Chicken b/4 egg?

ABBREVIATIONS
 min. minimum The min. is 50

 Max. Maximum the max. number of people

 gov't. Government the gov't. Helped the people


 ASAP as soon as possible finish your exam ASAP

 Wrt write Wrt #3 (write number 3)

 Rt right Rt side

 Yr / yrs year Years She's 5 yrs old

ABBREVIATIONS
 Ch chapter Read ch 8

 QA question answers

 Ex example look at ex 4

 WD /wds word Words 1 vocabulary wd. 25

 Ref reference Ref required.

 Diff difference what is the diff?

 A.M Morning

 P.M Afternoon
ABBREVIATIONS
 NB Note well

 B/F Before

 Re: regarding About I need to see you re: the sales

 Esp. especially Tobacco, esp. cigarettes, causes

 vs. versus As opposed to Purple vs. green

SYMBOLS DESCRIPTION
 A symbol is an object which stands for something
  Therefore , thus
 = Is equal to
 ≠ Not equal to
 + Plus
 - Minus
 X Multiply
 ÷ Divide
 > Greater than
 < Less than
 ® right
 Č With
DESCRIPTION
 STATIC DESCRIPTION
 The appearance of a layout, apparatus, a place,
thing or person.
DESCRIPTION
 PROCESS DESCRIPTION (NARRATION )

 “Narrating is an art, like poetry-making or

painting, because it is There in every child’s
mind, waiting to be discovered, and is not the
Process of disciplinary education.” —Charlotte
Mason,
PROCESS DESCRIPTION
 Two kinds of narrative are describing

 How to do something

 How something works

 It should ne clear , accurate and complete.

LISTENING TO THE RADIO
This is Natural sound: SIRENS, FIRE CREW AT SCENE. [UP 4 SEC, THEN
UNDER. RUNS: 46]
REED: This four-alarm fire lit up the sky over Troy this morning. A security
guard called the fire department at 4:30, and when firefighters arrived just
six minutes later, the fire had escalated. Chief Jed Krystowiak [Chris-TOE-
wee-ask] said his men battled the flames for five hours before they brought it
under control: [:24]

KRYSTOWIAK…RUNS: 10 OUT: BEFORE WE EVER GOT HERE.

REED: The fire’s cause is unknown, but they haven’t ruled out arson.
Fortunately, no one was injured. Police and fire officials expect to have a full
report by tomorrow night.

In Troy, I’m Rip Reed, News radio 93.6. [:08].

LISTENING TO THE RADIO

 When did the troy get fire?

 When the security guards call the fire
department?
 How many hours did the fire fighters struggled?
 What is the reason for the fire cause?
 How many have been injured in the fire accident?
 When the full report will be submitted?
LISTENING TO THE TAPE
 It helps to get exposure to a variety of voices and a
range of accents making it more realistic

 To hear several people participating in discussions

or conversations

 It has flexible for all - stop the tape, repeat and

replay the cassette as often as they like.