Listening

by White, Goodith; Maley, Alan

• ISBN13: 9780194372169
• ISBN10: 0194372162
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-05-14
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

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