UNIT 7 LISTENING

 Listening

Unit seven from TKT book is about listening which is a receptive skill. This skill for most students is the most difficult one since they are not exposed at all to real-speakers audios. They are just accustomed to their teacher speech, intonation and pronunciation, and pace.  Acceding to Spratt, M. Pulverness, A. Williams, M. (2012) on page 43 “listening involves making sense of the meaningful sounds of language”. The process on listening has three stages; before listening or pre-listening where teachers work with students making prediction, pre-teaching vocabulary, asking questions and setting up the purpose of the listening. The second step is during listening. In this time students take notes. The final step is after listening where the teacher checks answers, make debates, discussions, describe characters, summaries the speech and other activities that can fit with the audio. What I have learned is that even though we have to follow grammar structures, in real conversation it is acceptable to use incomplete sentences, utterances, hesitations, sadden topic change, simple grammar and general vocabulary.         

Bibliography:

Spratt, M. Pulverness, A. Williams, M. (2012). Language and background to language learning and teaching. The TKT Course. (2^nd ed.) Cambridge University Press '>Bibliography:

Spratt, M. Pulverness, A. Williams, M. (2012). Language and background to language learning and teaching. The TKT Course. (2^nd ed.) Cambridge University Press

Ur, P. (2010). Grammar Practice Activities. A practical guide for teachers. (2^nd ed.) Cambridge University Press.
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