LISTENING & SPEAKING

LISTENING
 THREE BASIC STEPS OF LISTENING
• Hearing-hearing just means listening enough
to catch what the speaker is saying.
• Understanding- the next part of listening
happens when you take what you have heard
and understand it on your own.
• Judging- after your sure you understand what
the speaker has said, think about whether it
makes sense.
 LISTENING PROBLEMS
• Day dreaming
• Closed-mindedness
• False attention
• Intellectual despair
• Memorizing
• Personality listening
TIPS FOR BEING A GOOD LISTENER
• Give your full attention on the person who is
speaking.
• Make sure your mind is focused.
• Let the speaker finished before you begin to talk.
• Let yourself finish listening before you begin to
speak.
• Listen for main ideas.
• Ask question.
• Give feedback.
 STRATEGIES FOR EFFECTIVE LISTENING

Needs Analysis
There are four stages in needs analysis
1. What you need to know about a language
2. Problems
3. Future needs
4. Need for your course
Planning
You need to decide:
• What materials and resources you want tou
use
• Whether you want to work alone or with
other people
• When you want or need to finish studying
• How much improvement is necessary
Studying
You can practice listening by;
• Listen to a film or TV programmer and see the
speaker expression and their body language
and also what they talking about.
• Listen to the singers song and refer to their
lyrics.
• Listen to a video or tape and check words that
you don’t understand in a dictionary.
Testing
You can test your listening skills by;
• Listening to a video or tape and writing the main
points.
• Watch a videos and compare what you hear to a
script
Further planning
• Test or assess yourself to see if you have fulfill your
need.
• If you can, learn another points from your needs
analysis
• If you can’t, you need to study more, so change your
plan
SPEAKING
 SPEAKING SKILLS
Introduction
Speaking is the productive skill in the oral mode.
Involves more than just pronouncing words

Listening situations
• Interactive( face to face conversation and
telephone calls)
• Partially interactive(giving speech to live audience)
• Non interactive( recording a speech for a radiocast)
Micro skills
The speaker has to:
• Pronounce the distinctive sounds of a
language clearly enough.
• Use stress and rhythmic patterns
• Use the correct forms of words.
• Use vocabulary appropriately
• Make the main ideas stand out from
supporting ideas or information
 STATEGIES FOR EFFECTIVE SPEAKING

• Need analysis.
• Planning.
• Strategies
• Testing
• Further planning.
Need analysis.
• Know about the language.
• Know about problem.
• Future need.
• Need for course.
Planning.
You need to decide:
• What materials and resource you want to use.
• Work alone or in other people.
• When you want or need finish studying.
• How much improvement is necessary.
Testing.
You can test speaking with:
• Classmate.
• Electronic dictionary.
• Teacher.
• People around us.
Further planning.
• Assess yourself to see if you have fulfill your
need.
• If you can- plan to learn another point from
need analysis.
• If you can’t- study more and change plan.