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9780194372169

Listening

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  • ISBN13:

    9780194372169

  • ISBN10:

    0194372162

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1998-05-14
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Summary

This book examines how teachers can motivate students to develop confidence and independence in listening. Over 70 classroom activities are offered.

Author Biography

Goodith White is a lecturer in the School of Education, University of Leeds, UK

Table of Contents

The authors and series editor 1(2)
Foreword 3(2)
Introduction 5(5)
How to use this book 10(3)
Becoming a good listener
13(25)
What's in a word?
13(2)
Tapefriends
15(1)
Sounds of silence
16(1)
Getting the frame
17(1)
Up the garden path
18(1)
Interrupting
19(2)
Over to you
21(1)
What went wrong?
22(2)
Sight and sound 1
24(1)
Sight and sound 2
25(1)
Tapes for the blind
26(2)
The good listener
28(2)
Learning through listening
30(2)
Design your own listening course
32(2)
Taped feedback
34(1)
Listening outside class
35(3)
Helping students to create their own listening texts and tasks
38(17)
Students making their own recordings
39(1)
Soundtracks
39(2)
My home
41(1)
Sounds of my day
41(1)
Fun with sound effects
42(1)
Designing a `self help' tape
43(1)
Serial story
44(3)
Using teachers' voices
47(1)
Gossips
47(1)
Describe and draw rooms from stories
48(1)
Imagining
49(1)
Students designing their own tasks
50(1)
Listening in role
50(2)
Guest speaker
52(1)
Tape library
53(2)
Micro skills
55(18)
Individual sounds
56(1)
Wall dictation
56(1)
People's sounds
57(1)
Weird words
58(1)
Discrimination quiz
59(1)
Word stress
60(1)
Holiday stress
60(1)
Identifying words in a stream of speech
61(1)
Haunted in room 325
61(3)
Shouting match
64(1)
Predictaword
65(1)
Snakes and stars
65(1)
Wrong word quiz
66(1)
Sentence stress
67(1)
Audio books 1
67(1)
Stresses and pauses
68(1)
Longer stretches of speech
69(1)
What's next?
69(1)
Intonation
69(1)
Kind or cruel?
69(1)
Is this person about to stop speaking?
70(1)
Attitudes
71(2)
Adapting published materials
73(15)
Overcoming the `overhearer' effect
74(1)
Overhearers
74(1)
Participants
75(1)
Personalizing the listening material
76(1)
How do these pictures fit in?
76(1)
Character and voice
77(1)
Word bingo
78(1)
Our questions and answers
78(1)
From answer to question 1
79(1)
From answer to question 2
80(1)
Filtered listening
81(1)
Changing the listening passage
82(1)
Listening to dialogues
83(1)
Predict a dialogue
83(1)
How authentic?
84(2)
Monologue into dialogue
86(2)
Using authentic listening material
88(19)
Listening to the news
88(1)
News for all
88(2)
Audiences for the news
90(1)
News values
90(2)
Comparing the news
92(1)
Adapting the news
93(1)
Shortening the news
93(1)
The World Service
94(1)
The news expanded
95(1)
Other radio/television programmes
96(1)
Station surfing
96(1)
Weather diary
97(1)
Sports temperatures
98(3)
Listening to politicians
101(1)
Radio advertisements
102(1)
Opinion programmes
103(1)
Other kinds of authentic material
104(1)
Lectures
104(1)
Audio books 2
105(2)
Telephoning
107(12)
Your telephone personality
108(3)
Mobile telephone
111(1)
Telephone the class
112(1)
Telephone voting
113(2)
Answering machines
115(1)
Real-life telephoning
116(3)
Listening projects
119(14)
Interview for a magazine
119(3)
Voice of the people
122(1)
Desert island discs backwards
123(2)
Making a news broadcast
125(2)
A radio play
127(3)
Local radio
130(1)
Oral history
131(2)
Appendix 1: How to make good quality recordings 133(2)
Appendix 2: Sources of listening materials 135(3)
Bibliography 138(2)
Index 140(1)
Other titles in the Resource Books for Teachers series 141

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