This document discusses the listening skill of predicting while listening to a story. It explains that predicting engages the listener and helps them connect to the story by making connections between new information and what is already known. The document provides examples of words and phrases used to express different levels of certainty in predictions from 100% certainty down to 0%. It identifies cues like main ideas, mood, and mental images that can help a listener predict what may happen next. Finally, it encourages applying predicting techniques while listening and gives an example prediction question.

1. Listening: Level 6

2. Predicting

3. Predicting
Thinking ahead while listening and
anticipating information and events
Making predictions actively engages
and connects you to the story

4. Predicting
• Make connections between new
information and what you already know
• Stronger connections to the passage
and better understand the content
• Express your own opinions about the
future

5. Expressing Certainty
will; will certainly; will definitely; will surely
will almost certainly; will almost definitely; will
almost surely
will probably
will possibly
probably won't
almost certainly won't; almost definitely won't
won't; certainly won't; definitely won't
100%
90%
75%
50%
35%
10%
0%

6. Expressing Certainty
Do you think it will snow tomorrow?
Yes, it’ll snow tomorrow.
(Yes, it’ll definitely/certainly snow tomorrow.)
明日雪は降るだろう。
Yes, it’ll almost certainly snow tomorrow.
明日はほぼ確実に雪が降るだろう。
Yes, I think it’ll probably snow tomorrow.
明日はおそらく雪が降ると思う。

7. Expressing Certainty
Do you think it will snow tomorrow?
Yes, it’ll possibly snow tomorrow.
明日はひょっとすると雪が降るかもしれない。
No, it probably won’t snow tomorrow.
明日はたぶん雪は降らないだろう。
No, it almost certainly won’t snow tomorrow.
明日はほぼ確実に雪は降らないだろう。
No, it definitely won’t snow tomorrow.
明日は雪は降らないだろう。

8. Identifying Prediction Cues
• Identify the main idea of the content and follow
the idea to where it leads
• Pay attention to what is affecting the main idea and
how it is changing
• Listen for clues that create a mood or mental image
of the situation

9. Applying Prediction Techniques
Let’s listen!

10. Applying Prediction Techniques
What probably happens next?
A) Peter calls Amanda and tells her he will be a little late.
B) Peter decides to call off the date and stays home.
C) Amanda is angry that Peter is late and cancels the date.
D) Peter reads his e-mail and then leaves to pick up
Amanda.

11. Applying Prediction Techniques
What probably happens next?
A) Peter calls Amanda and tells her he will be a little late.
B) Peter decides to call off the date and stays home.
C) Amanda is angry that Peter is late and cancels the date.
D) Peter reads his e-mail and then leaves to pick up
Amanda.

12. Predicting

13. Listening : Level 6