| Objective A: Learners will improve listening
skills and comprehension through various listening activities which
focus on specific information. |
- Follow oral directions silently with physical action, i.e., “Total
Physical Response.”
- Respond to emergency warnings.
- Respond appropriately to a request for personal and other
information: name, address, telephone, time, etc.
- Select important information from conversations, weather and news
on radio/television, telephones, answering machines, and
announcements on buses, trains, etc.
- Respond to dictation: letters, words, numbers, phrases, telephone
numbers, addresses.
- Respond to body language cues.
- Discriminate sounds in minimal pairs, e.g., pin-pen, hat-hot.
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| Objective B: Learners will become more
comfortable in an English-speaking environment and become increasingly
aware of what is being said around him/her. |
- Listen to an anecdote and tell what it is about.
- Listen to a conversation and identify the topic.
- Watch a news story or television program and explain what
happened.
- Listen and respond, i.e., laugh, groan, exclaim, joke, frown,
etc. appropriately to idiomatic expressions, i.e., slang, street
language, etc.
- Listen to a story and ask and answer questions.
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