The document discusses best practices for teaching listening skills, including using pre-listening activities to introduce vocabulary and have students predict topics. It recommends doing a first listening for overall understanding by focusing on one or two main questions, followed by a second listening to elicit more details by answering questions or making remarks. Post-listening activities should promote discussion, dialogues, and role-plays to reinforce comprehension.

1. Teaching Listening
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2. Integrated Skills
Listening Writing
Reading Speaking

3. The Main Questions:
Will the students find it interesting?
Is it generative?
Will it be useful?
Is it on the right level?

4. Pre-listening Activities
Predicting the topic/ anticipating (questions)
Eliciting the sort of vocabulary used
Teaching key words (English-english
definition/filling in the gaps/ completing
sentences)

5. First listening
Listening for an overall understanding
(one-two main questions)

6. Second listening
Listening for details (answering questions/
making remarks)

7. After-listening
Discussions
Dialogues
Role-plays