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Understanding Signpost Words for Listening Skills

Enhance listening skills by exploring time sequences, place names, and case studies like Australia. Learn to identify signpost words for recounting events and organize information chronologically. Engage in exercises to practice mapping and identifying countries alphabetically.

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Understanding Signpost Words for Listening Skills

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  1. Listening:Signposts and Places Use of English

  2. Introduction • Today, we will be looking at… • Signpost words showing time sequences • Names of various places around the world • Case studies: Australia

  3. Signpost Words • Logical combinations are important in words, sentences and ideas • Example: to signal time relationships • Help you to listen for the main points in a recount (memory) of something that happened

  4. Chronological order to begin with first meanwhile later afterwards finally First / first of all / initially / to start with / the first step / at the first stage Second / secondly / the second step / at the second stage Third / thirdly / the third step / at the third stage Then / after that / next Finally / the final step / at the final stage Examples

  5. Exercise ~ Task 1 • A list of areas where explorers would want to go • Unravel the jumbled words • Put them on the map of the world in the correct places • Match the numbers with the letters on the map • Answers: • 1. The Sahara Desert B • 2. The Amazon River C • 3. The North Pole E • 4. The South Pole D • 5. The Himalayas F • 6. The Gobi Desert A

  6. Points to Note • Important words: stressed • More slowly • More loudly • More carefully • A fast, nuclearand soft sentence: not giving new or important formation • Speakers do not present important information without stressing it

  7. Exercise ~ Task 2 • A man called David Adams, an explorer, talking about the preparations he made for an expedition • Expedition = adventure • Listen to the tape • Make notes about David’s preparations • Listen for the signposting language to guide you

  8. Exercise ~ Task 2 (Answer Key)

  9. Exercise ~ Task 2 (Answer Key)

  10. Places around the World • Write the letters A to Z (in a list form) on a piece of paper • You have 5-10 minutes to try and find the name of a country for each letter of the alphabet • e.g. A for Albania, B for Belgium, C for China etc

  11. Argentina / Australia Brazil / Britain China / Canada / Congo Denmark Egypt / Ecuador Finland / France Greece / Germany Holland / Hungary Iceland / Ireland / India Japan / Jamaica Korea / Kenya Laos / Luxemberg Morocco / Mexico Nigeria / Nepal Oman Poland / Portugal An A – Z List of Countries Around the World

  12. An A – Z List of Countries Around the World • Qatar • Romania • Switzerland / Sweden / Somali Republic • Turkey / Thailand • Uruguay / United States of America • Venezuela / Vietnam • Western Sahara • Yemen • Zambia

  13. Case Studies: Australia • Ex-Sight-seeing Spots in Australia.ppt

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