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Listening and speaking

Learning to listen in English

Developing Interactional Skills

Learning to speak in English

Give the children confidence

Explain why the children have to listen

Help children develop specific strategies for listening

Set a specific listening task

Organize listening

An important strategy that the teacher should teach is 'intelligent guess-work'.

Some important listening

strategies include:

-Predicting

- Working out the meaning from context.

- Recognizing discourse patterns and markers.

If learners are asked to listen to a long stretch of English without visual support and are asked to simply recall the facts they are in reality being 'tested' rather than 'taught'.

All of the activities contain a learnlng to learn element.

Activities to develop speaking is proposed.

Your gestures,

tone of voice and visual aids will .help children feel confident about

what is important to concentrate on.

demonstrate techniques for developing pupils' communicative competence so they can talk about personal things or about specific information with someone else