S E L E C T I V E L I S T E N I N G

C L B 5

Hobbies

Let’s Review

Hobbies – different activities you like to do in your spare time

Reading

Sports

Arts and crafts

Movies

Etc.

Identify the Hobby

Today

Continue work on hobbies

Focus on listening

There Are Different Ways to Listen!

Just like with reading, you can use different skills when you listen

For example, with reading, you have learned:

To find the main idea

Scanning

There are skills you can practice to listen more effectively

Selective Listening

What – selective listening happens when you do not focus on all of the words being spoken, just the specific information you are interested in

When – you would use selective listening when you were interested in learning a specific piece of information

What situations do you think this might apply in?

Why would you listen selectively?

Why Learn Selective Listening?

To learn

How much does something cost?

What are the hours of a certain business?

Is there a process you need to follow before going somewhere?

Etc.

To save time

Know what you need to before doing something so you don’t have to repeat a step or do something unnecessarily

How?!

When learning a new language it can be very hard to know what is important to listen to and what isn’t!

It’s a process

Just like with everything you’ve learned, selective listening takes practice

Tips for Listening Selectively

Plan

Think ahead about what you want to learn or what you want to know so that you will know what to listen for

Write down questions you want to have answered, the information you want to obtain. For example

How much will this cost?

Where is this located/what is the address?

What time does the program start?

More Tips…

Listen

Listen more than once if you need to, call back and listen to the recording again

Ask whomever is speaking to repeat the point that was interesting to you

Write

Notes with information you are interested in (while you listen)

Questions you would like ask to receive clarification

Words you don’t understand

Let’s Practice!

From our work this week it is clear that you all enjoy watching movies!

Audio-recording from a movie theatre that lists:

Movie times

Theatre location

Costs

Deals

First Listen

We will listen to this recording twice

First time

As a group

We are listening for the price of matinee tickets

Matinee – noun – a French word that means a show that plays during the afternoon

http://www.esl-lab.com/show/showrd1.htm

This listening exercise is featured in Randall’s ESL Café, a website of teacher resources for listening activities

TESL Student/Teacher instructions: Click on the link above Scroll down to “II Listening Exercises” Press the play button to listen to the recording

Second Listen

Second time

Looking at our handouts

Listen to complete the information on your handout

Now, let’s practice our selective listening skills

Look at your handout

Let’s review the information you will be listening for

Write down the information from the recording that answers these questions or fills in these blanks

Notice…

Were there any words or terms you did not understand?

Kitty-corner

Box office

We usually review new vocabulary before we do an exercise!

With selective listening is not necessary to understand every word you hear as long as you understand the information you require

Questions?