Listening Skills with practice

Listening skills
How to listen strategically
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Listening skills
How to listen strategically

Slide 1 - Tekstslide

I think listening is the easiest skill / Listening tests are easy to pass
TRUE
FALSE

Slide 2 - Poll

Lesson overview
Review of listening
Types of questions in a listening test
How to answer each type of questions?
Check your knowledge
Practice your listening

Slide 3 - Tekstslide

Learning Goals
  • I know what ERK-level I should have for listening
  • I can list the different types of questions
  • I can answer different types of questions

Slide 4 - Tekstslide

When do you use listening? List every moment you can think of

Slide 5 - Woordweb

Listening vs. Listening (on a) test
What do you think is the difference?

Slide 6 - Tekstslide

B1 Listening Skill 

I can understand the main points of clear standard speech on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure, etc. I can understand the main point of many radio or TV programmes on current affairs or topics of personal or professional interest when the delivery is relatively slow and clear.

Slide 7 - Tekstslide

Which types of questions do you know?

Slide 8 - Woordweb

Types of Questions
There are 5 main question types that you may encounter:
  • Short answer questions
  • Multiple choice questions
  • Matching
  • Complete the sentences or summary
  • Direct and indirect questions

Slide 9 - Tekstslide

Short answer question
Write a short phrase or sentence to answer the question.
For example: "Which reason did Mary give for her choice?"
  • Do's : Pay attention to your spelling, answer with information from the audio.
  • Don'ts: Answer with your opinion, go over the number of words you can write (if they specify it).

Slide 10 - Tekstslide

Practice short answer
Why is Sally concerned that a Chinese company owns TikTok?

Slide 11 - Tekstslide

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Slide 12 - Video

01:10
Why is Sally concerned that a Chinese company owns TikTok?

Slide 13 - Open vraag

Multiple choice question
Select one of the answers given. Example: "Why did Mary make that choice?"
A. Because she felt pressured to do so
B. Because her friend did it too
C. Because she had always wanted it
  • Do's: Read the question carefully. If you struggle with finding an answer, look at the ones that cannot be the answer first.
  • Don'ts: Guess, or choose the "longest" answer.


Slide 14 - Tekstslide

Practice MC question
Why did India ban TikTok?

Slide 15 - Tekstslide

Slide 16 - Video

Why did India ban TikTok?
A
Because of it's popularity
B
Because it conflicts with religion
C
Because of security reasons
D
Because children spend too much time on it

Slide 17 - Quizvraag

Matching
Example: Match the item in the store with the person who wants to buy it:
A. Mary               ... Apples                   
B. Eric                 ... Toothpaste
Do's: Read the instruction really carefully. What are they really asking you to match? Make sure the letter is readable! 
Don'ts: Make lines or other symbols. 

Slide 18 - Tekstslide

Practice Matching
Countries with a ban 
Countries without a ban

Slide 19 - Tekstslide

Slide 20 - Video

Countries with a ban
Countries without a ban
Australia
USA
India

Slide 21 - Sleepvraag

Complete the sentences or summary
Example: Complete the sentences with no more than two words
"Mary decided to go to the supermarket because ....... told her to. She needed to buy ..... and ..... ".
Do's: Pay attention to your spelling, answer with information from the text or video
Don'ts: Add your opinion, exceed the number of words indicated.

Slide 22 - Tekstslide

Practice complete the sentence
Complete the sentence:
When you first open the ... , my software counted 210 ... requests.

Slide 23 - Tekstslide

Slide 24 - Video

Complete the sentence:
When you first open the ... , my software counted 210 ... requests.

Slide 25 - Open vraag

Direct and indirect questions

Direct questions: the answer to the question is given within the audio fragment.

Indirect questions: you need to interpet the answer based on what you have heard. 


Slide 26 - Tekstslide

Indirect questions
Example: What's the attitude of the speaker towards using public transport?
Do's: Listen to what is said; is the speaker positive or negative?
Don'ts: Add your opinion

Slide 27 - Tekstslide

Practice indirect questions
What's the attitude of the speakers towards the ban of TikTok?

Slide 28 - Tekstslide

Slide 29 - Video

What's the attitude of the speakers towards the ban of TikTok
A
Positive
B
Negative

Slide 30 - Quizvraag

In your opinion, which type of question is the most difficult one? Why?

Slide 31 - Open vraag

Practice and check

Slide 32 - Tekstslide

When answering a listening test I need to add my own opinion
A
Yes
B
No

Slide 33 - Quizvraag

I can write as much as I want when completing a sentence in a listening test
A
Yes
B
No

Slide 34 - Quizvraag

I always need to read the instruction very carefully, because some questions are tricky
A
Yes
B
No

Slide 35 - Quizvraag

Time to practice! 

Answer the questions as they appear in the video.
Do this task on your own!

Slide 36 - Tekstslide

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Slide 37 - Video

00:30
What is the intention of the video?
Multiple answers can be correct.
A
Complain about the addiction to mobile phones
B
Inform about how addictive mobile phones can be
C
Help people overcome addiction to mobile phones
D
Convince people that they are addicted to their mobile phones

Slide 38 - Quizvraag

01:04
What is the man's job?
A
He works for Google
B
He has a foundation that helps people be aware of phone usage
C
He helps Google make better devices
D
He makes videos

Slide 39 - Quizvraag

01:42
Complete the sentences:
- You should turn off all your notifications, unless a ... is trying to communicate with you

Slide 40 - Open vraag

02:25
Why are slot machines so addictive?
A
Because they are unpredictable
B
Because they are predictable
C
Because people earn money
D
Because they are similar to phones

Slide 41 - Quizvraag

03:27
Why should you greyscale your screen?
Info
The correct answer represents the idea only. If you wrote the same but in other words, it is also ok!

Slide 42 - Open vraag

04:32
Why is it said that those apps have "infinite scrolling"?

Slide 43 - Open vraag

05:45
Exc. Direct Messages
Instruction
Drag and drop the items where they belong. According to the video, should you have the notifications "on" or "off" for that app?
Notifications ON
Notifications OFF

Slide 44 - Sleepvraag

04:32
Which apps should you NOT have in your home screen?
Multiple answers are correct
A
Instagram
B
Snapchat
C
Calendar
D
Calculator

Slide 45 - Quizvraag

Well done!
Now you should ace your listening.
Remember that it is not always possible to read the questions before, but as long as you know the types of questions and what to do, it will be fine!

Slide 46 - Tekstslide

If you need more help or practice, these are helpful links:

Slide 47 - Tekstslide