Listening

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This popular series gives teachers practical advice and guidance, along with resource ideas and materials for the classroom. The tasks and activities are clearly presented, and offer teachers the information they need about level, time, preparation, materials, classroom management, monitoring, and follow-up activities. Each book offers up to 100 ideas, as well as variations that encourage teachers to adapt the activities to suite their individual classrooms.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• The authors and series editor (p. 1)
• Foreword (p. 3)
• Introduction (p. 5)
• How to use this book (p. 10)
• 1 Becoming a good listener (p. 13)
• 1.1 What's in a word? discussing listening processes, 10 (p. 13)
• 1.2 Tapefriends connecting speaking and listening, 30 (p. 15)
• 1.3 Sounds of silence improving concentration, 5-10 (p. 16)
• 1.4 Getting the frame activating previous knowledge, 10 (p. 17)
• 1.5 Up the garden path predicting, 10 (p. 18)
• 1.6 Interrupting encouraging student participation, 5-10 (p. 19)
• 1.7 Over to you encouraging student participation, 20 (p. 21)
• 1.8 What went wrong? analysing problems, 15-20 (p. 22)
• 1.9 Sight and sound 1 the role of vision, 40-50 (p. 24)
• 1.10 Sight and sound 2 the role of vision, 30 (p. 25)
• 1.11 Tapes for the blind following oral instructions, 40 (p. 26)
• 1.12 The good listener qualities of a good listener, 30 (p. 28)
• 1.13 Learning through listening language learning through listening, 20 + 20 (p. 30)
• 1.14 Design your own listening course keeping a 'listening diary', 5-10 + 10 + 10-15 (p. 32)
• 1.15 Taped feedback listening to improve speaking, 30 + 10 + 15 (p. 34)
• 1.16 Listening outside class encouraging independent learning, 5-10 (p. 35)
• 2 Helping students to create their own listening texts and tasks (p. 38)
• Students making their own recordings (p. 39)
• 2.1 Soundtracks students creating texts and tasks, 50 (p. 39)
• 2.2 My home listening for detail, 10-20 + 15 (p. 41)
• 2.3 Sounds of my day listening for detail, 15 + 60 + 20 (p. 41)
• 2.4 Fun with sound effects making listening fun, 20 + 20 + 20 (p. 42)
• 2.5 Designing a 'self help' tape students making their own tape, 20-30 (p. 43)
• 2.6 Serial story awareness of pronunciation problems, 10-15 (p. 44)
• Using teachers' voices (p. 47)
• 2.7 Gossips listening for detail, 5-10 (p. 47)
• 2.8 Describe and draw rooms from stories listening for detail, 20 (p. 48)
• 2.9 Imagining listening for detail, 5-10 (p. 49)
• Students designing their own tasks (p. 50)
• 2.10 Listening in role showing that people listen differently, 30 (p. 50)
• 2.11 Guest speaker listening for gist and detail, 5 + 20 + 50 (p. 52)
• 2.12 Tape library designing a tape library, 30-60 (p. 53)
• 3 Micro skills (p. 55)
• Individual sounds (p. 56)
• 3.1 Wall dictation distinguishing individual sounds, 15-20 (p. 56)
• 3.2 People's sounds distinguishing individual sounds, 15 (p. 57)
• 3.3 Weird words relating sounds to written forms, 10 (p. 58)
• 3.4 Discrimination quiz identifying stressed syllables, 5-10 (p. 59)
• Word stress (p. 60)
• 3.5 Holiday stress identifying words, 15 (p. 60)
• Identifying words in a stream of speech (p. 61)
• 3.6 Haunted in room 325 identifying words, 40 (p. 61)
• 3.7 Shouting match identifying words, 10-15 (p. 63)
• 3.8 Predictaword identifying words, 10-15 (p. 65)
• 3.9 Snakes and stars identifying words, 5-10 (p. 65)
• 3.10 Wrong word quiz identifying words, 10-15 (p. 66)
• Sentence stress (p. 67)
• 3.11 Audio books 1 identifying sentences stress, 10-15 (p. 67)
• 3.12 Stresses and pauses identifying sentences stress, 20 (p. 68)
• Longer stretches of speech (p. 69)
• 3.13 What's next? predicting, 5 (p. 69)
• Intonation (p. 69)
• 3.14 Kind or cruel? identifying intonation, 10-15 (p. 69)
• 3.15 Is this person about to stop speaking? recognizing turn-taking signals, 5-10 (p. 70)
• 3.16 Attitudes identifying intonation, 10 (p. 71)
• 4 Adapting published materials (p. 73)
• Overcoming the 'overhearer' effect (p. 74)
• 4.1 Overhearers participating in listening text, 40 (p. 74)
• 4.2 Participants participating in listening texts, 10 (p. 75)
• Personalizing the listening material (p. 76)
• 4.3 How do these pictures fit in? personalizing listening, 10-15 (p. 76)
• 4.4 Character and voice focusing on voice quality/speed, 15-20 (p. 77)
• 4.5 Word bingo identifying words, 10 (p. 78)
• 4.6 Our questions and answers listening for detail, 20-30 (p. 78)
• 4.7 From answer to question 1 listening tests, 10-15 (p. 79)
• 4.8 From answer to question 2 listening tests, 20 (p. 80)
• 4.9 Filtered listening coping with background noise, 10 (p. 81)
• 4.10 Changing the listening passage diagnosing listening problems, 30 (p. 82)
• Listening to dialogues (p. 83)
• 4.11 Predict a dialogue listening to conversations, 15-20 (p. 83)
• 4.12 How authentic? recognizing turn-taking signals, 30 (p. 84)
• 4.13 Monologue to dialogue recognizing turn-taking signals, 20-25 (p. 86)
• 5 Using authentic listening material (p. 88)
• Listening to the news (p. 88)
• 5.1 News for all understanding news broadcasts, 10-20 (p. 88)
• Audiences for the news (p. 90)
• 5.2 News values understanding news broadcasts, 40-50 (p. 90)
• 5.3 Comparing the news understanding news broadcasts, 15-20 (p. 92)
• Adapting the news (p. 93)
• 5.4 Shortening the news understanding news broadcasts, 20-30 (p. 93)
• 5.5 The World Service understanding news broadcasts, 40-50 (p. 94)
• 5.6 The news expanded understanding news broadcasts, 50 (p. 95)
• Other radio/television programmes (p. 96)
• 5.7 Station surfing recognizing different types of text, 5-10 (p. 96)
• 5.8 Weather diary listening for information, 30 + 5-10 (p. 97)
• 5.9 Sports temperatures listening for gist, 30-40 (p. 98)
• 5.10 Listening to politicians listening evaluatively, 30 (p. 101)
• 5.11 Radio advertisements listening for information, 30 (p. 102)
• 5.12 Opinion programmes listening for opinions, 10-15 (p. 103)
• Other kinds of authentic material (p. 104)
• 5.13 Lectures listening to lectures, note-taking, 30 (p. 104)
• 5.14 Audio books 2 listening carefully, 20 (p. 105)
• 6 Telephoning (p. 107)
• 6.1 Your telephone personality telephone listening, 20 (p. 108)
• 6.2 Mobile telephone telephone listening, 10 (p. 111)
• 6.3 Telephone the class making telephone calls, 10 + 10 + 10 (p. 112)
• 6.4 Telephone voting making telephone calls, 10 + 5 + 5 (p. 113)
• 6.5 Answering machines understanding answering machines, 30 (p. 115)
• 6.6 Real-life telephoning making telephone calls, 15 + 10-15 + 15 (p. 116)
• 7 Listening projects (p. 119)
• 7.1 Interview for a magazine integrating listening with other skills, 50 + 50 (p. 119)
• 7.2 Voice of the people interviewing, 10-15 + 60 + 20 (p. 122)
• 7.3 Desert island discs backwards integrating listening with other skills, 30 + 30 (p. 124)
• 7.4 Making a news broadcast integrating listening with other skills, 50 (p. 125)
• 7.5 A radio play integrating listening with other skills, 50-90 + 30-45 (p. 127)
• 7.6 Local radio integrating listening with other skills, 20 + 30-40 + 30 (p. 130)
• 7.7 Oral history listening to compare information, 30 + 30 + 30 (p. 131)
• Appendix 1 How to make good quality recordings (p. 133)
• Appendix 2 Useful sources of listening materials (p. 135)
• Bibliography (p. 138)
• Index (p. 140)
• Other titles in the Resource Books for Teachers series (p. 141)