Language Skills

Unit 7. Listening
TKT Preparation Course Module 1

T. César Cárdenas / March 2021

Listening involves …
• To understand the context.
• To use of our schemata.
• To use our knowledge of language.
• To understand different text types.
• To understand different speed and
accents.
• To use different subskills.
• Stays on the page.
• Uses punctuation and capital
letters to show sentences.
• Consists of letters, words, etc.
• No body language involved.
• Well organized (logical structure)
• More complex grammar and
exact vocabulary.
• Disappears as soon as it is spoken.
• Shows sentences through stress and
intonation.
• Consists of connected speech,
sentences, incomplete sentences or
words.
• Body language, facial expressions
and gestures.
• May have interruptions, repetitions.
• Uses rather general vocabulary and
simple grammar.
 Listening Subskills
• Listening for specific information
• Listening for gist / global understanding.
• Listening for detail.
• Deducing meaning from context.
• Understanding text types.
• Intensive and Extensive Reading
• Inferring.
• Predicting.
• Inferring attitude, feeling, mood.
 Listening Subskills
Listening for specific information
to listen to a text to pick out specific information, e.g. finding a
phone number in a phone book

Listening for gist / global understanding

to listen an audio to get a general idea of what it is about

 Listening Subskills
Listening for detail
to listen to a text in order to understand most of what it says or
particular information

Deducing meaning from context

to guess the meaning of an unknown word by using the
information in a situation and/or around the word to help
 Listening Subskills
Understanding text structure
Involves understanding how certain types of audios generally
develop: beginning, plot and outcome.

Intensive and Extensive listening

1. to listen and to focus on how language is used in a text
2. Listening for pleasure
 Listening Subskills
Inferring / Inferring attitude, mood, feelings.
• To get implicit information.
• To decide how a speaker feels about something from the way that
they speak or write, rather than from what they openly say or the
words they use.
Predicting
To use clues like headlines or pictures or general knowledge about
the text or topic to make it easier to understand what you hear
 Key concepts
• Listening pattern:

Pre While After

Listening Listening Listening
Introductory
Activities Main Task Post Task