Listening strategies
Inglés · Unit 2: Education and lifelong learning
Qué aprenderás
- Identify purpose, relevant ideas, specific details and relationships between ideas in oral texts. Use listening strategies such as predicting, listening for a purpose, inferring, focusing on key expressions and checking understanding.
- Use English about learning, education, skills, goals and lifelong learning.
- Communicate meaning before seeking perfect translation.
A study group meets twice a week. Before each meeting, members write one question they cannot answer alone. They spend less time rereading notes and more time explaining ideas, checking examples, and identifying what still confuses them.
En televisores, la síntesis de voz depende del navegador. No se fuerza una voz inglesa sobre explicaciones en español.Goal
Identify purpose, relevant ideas, specific details and relationships between ideas in oral texts. Use listening strategies such as predicting, listening for a purpose, inferring, focusing on key expressions and checking understanding. En «Listening strategies», conecta este paso con una evidencia concreta: The study group uses questions and explanation to guide learning.
- Remember: first identify who communicates, for what purpose and in what situation; then use vocabulary and grammar to build meaning.
- Understand before translating
- Use English in context
- Check meaning with evidence
Input
A study group meets twice a week. Before each meeting, members write one question they cannot answer alone. They spend less time rereading notes and more time explaining ideas, checking examples, and identifying what still confuses them.
- What is the main message?
- Which detail supports it?
- What is the writer's or speaker's purpose?
Meaning first
Context: learning, education, skills, goals and lifelong learning. The input is short, age-appropriate and designed for First Year of Chilean secondary education. Focus: Identify purpose, relevant ideas, specific details and relationships between ideas in oral texts. Use listening strategies such as predicting, listening for a purpose, inferring, focusing on key expressions and checking understanding..
- Main idea
- Relevant detail
- Purpose or response
Useful language
Learn expressions as chunks and reuse them in a new sentence: in my opinion; according to; I’m interested in; however; because; first/then/finally. En «Listening strategies», conecta este paso con una evidencia concreta: The study group uses questions and explanation to guide learning.
- Say it aloud
- Change one element
- Use it in a new context
Language tool
Grammar supports communication. Notice word order, verb time, connectors, quantities and descriptive language in the input; choose the form that makes your intended meaning clear. En «Listening strategies», conecta este paso con una evidencia concreta: The study group uses questions and explanation to guide learning.
- Meaning
- Form
- New example
Guided practice
Complete the task in English. First identify the communicative purpose; then select useful language; finally produce or interpret the message and check whether it makes sense. En «Listening strategies», conecta este paso con una evidencia concreta: The study group uses questions and explanation to guide learning.
- Purpose
- Language
- Check
Common mistakes
Avoid translating word by word, choosing an answer because one familiar word appears, or producing isolated grammar with no communicative purpose. En «Listening strategies», conecta este paso con una evidencia concreta: The study group uses questions and explanation to guide learning.
- Use context
- Read/listen beyond one word
- Prioritize intelligibility
Transfer
Use the same strategy in a different situation related to learning, education, skills, goals and lifelong learning. Change the people, purpose or details while keeping the communication skill. En «Listening strategies», conecta este paso con una evidencia concreta: The study group uses questions and explanation to guide learning.
- New situation
- Same strategy
- Independent response
Closure
Say what you understood or communicated, which strategy helped you and one expression you can reuse. En «Listening strategies», conecta este paso con una evidencia concreta: The study group uses questions and explanation to guide learning.
- Message
- Strategy
- Reusable English
Actividad de desarrollo
Write 120–180 words in English about learning, education, skills, goals and lifelong learning. Organize your message for a clear purpose, include relevant details, use connectors, and revise vocabulary, verb forms, spelling and punctuation before finishing.
Práctica
- The text says the situation has no useful information.
- The study group uses questions and explanation to guide learning.
- The text argues that everyone should make the same choice.
- The text focuses only on an unrelated detail.
- The opposite of the situation is stated.
- A fact not mentioned in the text is given as certain.
- Members write one question before each meeting.
- The text says there are no relevant details.
- To give unrelated instructions with no connection to the topic.
- To prove that only one personal choice is acceptable.
- To list vocabulary without communicating a message.
- To describe an active study strategy.
- Identify the main message first, then return to specific details and context.
- Translate every word before deciding what the text is about.
- Choose an answer as soon as one familiar word appears.
- Ignore context and focus only on verb forms.