welcome to e4 listening instructor: meirong alice

Welcome to E4 Listening

instructor: MeiRong Alice

Welcome to E4 Listening

instructor: MeiRong Alice

1. Opening, course outline

2. Listening Tasks

3. Tips to improve listening

4. Meet your classmates

5. Real World Listening

6. Greeting and Small Talk

OutlineOutline

Prediction

Discussing

Cooperating

Listening Tasks II

Brainstorming

Personalizing

EvaluatingAssessing

Practicing

Listening Tasks IListening Tasks I

5 phonemic distinction

1 gist 2 main idea

3 inference4 intonation,

stress

Listening for

Purposes

• Tips for improve your listening

preview vocabulary, listen with a clear

purpose, take notes efficiently, organize and review their notes, and

apply.

preview vocabulary, listen with a clear

purpose, take notes efficiently, organize and review their notes, and

apply.

• Activate your background knowledge of topics presented

• Predict as you listen (topic, how people might react, what people might say)

• Focus on the purpose of your listening

Do care and focus on what you understand not what you don't understand

• Listen to each other in classCompare responses and discuss

differences (if you don't get it from the CD, then try to figure out from peers' answers)

• Work on the purpose of your listening NOT each word you don't comprehend  .

• Guess meaning from context .

• Practice listening to English (songs, movies, TV series, magazines) outside class whenever possible.

Listening Strategy FocusListening Strategy Focus

• Predict: Think about the ideas before listening, guess what may happen

• Focus: listen for key words or information

• Respond: Talk about what you have heard, make it personally meaningful.

Meet the class pg49Meet the class pg49

• Fill in the chart page 49• Stand in a circle • Walk around• Music stop• Introduce yourself to a

classmates closest to you by using the model conversations with a partner.

Real World Listening Real World Listening

• Predict

• Get the main ideas

• Respond to the ideas

Language AwarenessLanguage Awareness

1. I’d like to introduce you to my friend Alan.

2. Pleased to meet you, Alan3. It’s nice to meet you, too, Mr. Gray.4. Have you met Ellen?5. No, not ye. It’s a pleasure to meet you,

Ellen.6. My name’s Bob Wells.

You ______________. Have we met before?

It might have been two weeks ago, but I’m not sure.

Has it been a month or a year?

Look so familiar

I don’t think you are from around here.

I’ve a funny feeling

that I’ve met you twice.

That’s what they call ___________You were saying something friendly

Trying to be nice, and now you’re being friendly, too

déjà vu

One look, one word. It’s the friendliest sound that ________

Thanks for _________________.

I’m glad this______________________.

I’ve ever heard Your greeting

Meeting occurred

Greetings and small talk.

Make the world go round.

One every winding road I’ve walked.

This is what I’ve found.

Have you written any letters to your friends back home?

Have you had a chance to do that?Have you spoken to your family on

the telephone?Have you ______________

taken time for a chat?

_________________, shake hand

Do whatever you do in your native land

I’ll be happy to greet you in any way that you understand.

Bow down

____________________ the latest movie out of Hollywood?

_____________________about it yet?

If you haven’t eaten dinner, are you_________________ for a meal you won’t forget?

Have seen

Have you read

In the mood

Listen and sing alone

You look so familiar. Have we met before? I don’t think you are from around here..

It might have been two weeks ago, but I’m not sure. Has it been a month or a year?

I’ve a funny feeling that I’ve met you twice. That’s what they call déjà vu.

You were saying something friendly. Trying to be nice, and now you’re being friendly, too.

One look, one word. It’s the friendliest sound that I’ve ever heard.

Thanks for your greeting. I’m glad this meeting occurred.

Greetings and small talk. Make the world go round. One every winding road I’ve walked. This is what I’ve found.

Have you written any letters to your friends back home? Have you had a chance to do that? Have you spoken to your family on the telephone? Have you taken time for a chat?

bow down, shake hand. Do whatever you do in your native land. I’ll be happy to greet you in any way that you understand.

Greetings and small talk. Make the world go round. One every winding road I’ve walked. This is what I’ve found.

Have you seen the latest movie out of Hollywood? Have you read about it yet? If you haven’t eaten dinner, are you in the mood for a meal you won’t forget?

bow down, shake hand. Do whatever you do in your native land. I’ll be happy to greet you in any way that you understand.

Greetings and small talk. Make the world go round. One every winding road I’ve walked. This is what I’ve found.