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Improve your listening

Improve your listening. By Xie Xiaomei. &. Ma Xiaoxu. Ⅰ How much do you know ‘listening’ ? Ⅱ How can you improve your listening ? Ⅲ what kind of website is effective for your listening improvement. ????????.

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Improve your listening

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  1. Improve your listening By Xie Xiaomei & Ma Xiaoxu

  2. Ⅰ How much do you know ‘listening’ ? Ⅱ How can you improve your listening ? Ⅲ what kind of website is effective for your listening improvement. ???????? Reference: M. F. Toro and F. R. Johns (2001) DIY techniques for language learners. London: CILT Publications.

  3. How much do you know listening??? enough items in our mental dictionary and grammar. enough background knowledge of culture, typical behaviour enough experience of real-time processing. ? 1 the importance of listening interacting with people; helping language development 2 the definition of listening listening is the process of making sense out of sound Process: top-down processing bottom processing top-down processing 3 of all the fourth skills, why listening is the most one to master it needs the abilities that all depend on overall language knowledge.

  4. 1 improving perception 2 Joint listening 3 recording native speaker 4 observing native speaker 5 writing and using a transcript 6 Extensive listening 7 Note-taking 8 unfamiliar accent ways to improve your listening

  5. Note-taking Extensive listening unfamiliar accent recording native speaker writing and using a transcript

  6. Taking-notes Lecture Seminar Reference: http://www.ease.ac.uk/index.aspx

  7. Show the answers

  8. BBC radiohttp://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/ Extensive listening practice website

  9. ReasonsI Recommend it • 1. Professional and of high quality(biggest broadcasting company in UK, in the world) • 2. Of thorough information and aspects (from international news to entertainments) • 3. Special page for listening practice(introduce later)

  10. Other form of programme Listeners can choose to practice their listening in the way/ aspect they want In this part, you can choose different channels of different topics. You can use this part to gain information and vocabulary to prepare more about different topics and aspects. You can choose channel in different language . (your first language)

  11. Special page for English Learners 1.Popular topics 2.Actors or interviewees of different accents 3. The Teacher programme-- With this part, you can listen to the news with transcript and relevant explanations to vocabulary Interesting Quiz of pronunciation

  12. The programme in BBC Learning English Barbie Target question General information about the context Relevant vocabulary

  13. The Programme of teacher • Anyone can make transcript of teacher • Idioms • People can practice their English with the transcript as well as the new idioms. Author and idioms transcript

  14. The pronunciation quiz

  15. other useful websitesfor listening practice • http://esl.about.com/od/englishlistening/English_Listening_Skills_and_ActivitiesEffective_Listening_Practice.htm 1. Useful links to strategies, tongue twisters and stress 2. More theoretical http://www.esl-lab.com/ • Quiz of different levels

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