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Diploma in Higher Education Studies

Listening for key information

HES 104 · Developing English Language Skills — Week 6 of 16

CourseHES 104
Week6 of 16
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This week’s topics

Listening for key information

  1. Predicting what you will hear
  2. Listening for names, numbers and times
  3. Simple notes

What you will be able to do

  • 2.2 Listen for gist and specific detail and take simple notes.

Activity

Listen to announcements and note the key facts.

Study materials

Further resources

  • BBC 6 Minute English: Why do we procrastinate? (transcript) · PDF · BBC Learning English transcript; listen on the BBC page for names, numbers and key words, then check · for registered students
  • College Success, ch. 5.3: Taking notes · PDF · OpenStax (2020), simple note layouts; pp. 152–170 · for registered students
  • EFL Listeners' Task-Based Strategies and Their Relationship with Listening Performance · Open-access article · Chang (2009), TESL-EJ. Which strategies (predicting, note-taking, focusing on key words) go with better listening scores. · for registered students
  • Barriers to Acquiring Listening Strategies for EFL Learners · Open-access article · Chen (2005), TESL-EJ. Predicting content and listening for key words: what helps learners and what gets in the way. · for registered students
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Course plan
  • Week 1: Talking about yourself: the present simple
  • Week 2: What is happening now: the present continuous
  • Week 3: Telling a story: the past simple
  • Week 4: Building vocabulary: word families and collocations
  • Week 5: Reading for gist and detail
  • Week 6: Listening for key information
  • Week 7: Speaking clearly: sounds and word stress
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Talking about the future: will and going to
  • Week 10: Giving advice and rules: should, must, have to
  • Week 11: Writing good sentences
  • Week 12: Writing a paragraph
  • Week 13: Comparing things: comparatives and superlatives
  • Week 14: Writing an email
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Final: Final assessment and submission
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