This document discusses listening skills and strategies. It defines hearing versus listening and outlines general listening strategies like concentrating, listening with purpose, and note-taking. It also describes specific listening skills like listening to recall information, identify main ideas, and recognize supporting details. The document encourages listening carefully, identifying important points, and taking notes.

1. LISTENING SKILL

2. “To listen well is as powerful a means of
influences as to talk well, and is essential to all
true conversation”
-John Marshall

3. Hearing vs Listening
• Hearing –
• Listening -

4. General listening strategies
• Concentrate
• Listen with a purpose
• Have an overall comprehension
• Identify main ideas
• Focus on specific details
• Process information effeciently and effectively
• Note-taking

5. Specific Listening skills
• Listening to recall information
• Listening for main ideas
• Listening for supporting details & specific
information
• Deriving meaning from context
• Paraphrasing
• Predicting outcomes

6. Listen to the talk on how to keep your
internal body system clean.
Keep in mind these strategies:
1) Listen carefully
2) Identify important points
3) Make notes

7. Listening to recall information
• Remembering what we have heard.
• Jot down notes is an effective way to deal with
oral input.
• Other techniques that can be applied:
- do not lose focus.
- focus on keywords, specific information
or details.

8. Listening for main ideas
• What the audio text is all about?
• What is the general subject?
• Take note of keywords & summarise in one
sentence.

9. Listen carefully to the news item and
answer the question. (track 2)
• What is the main idea in the news item?
a. Malaysia is the favourite destination for
tourists from India.
b. Malaysia and Singapore will work together to
promote tourism
c. 200 000 Middle Eastern tourists are expected
to visit Malaysia this year
d. Malaysia will promote Singapore to Middle
Eastern and Indian tourists who visit here.

10. • A,C and D are details and do not convey what
the news item is about. Only B gives us the
general idea or the gist of the news item.
• Answer:B

11. Listening to recognise supporting
details