The document discusses techniques for effective English listening and vocabulary memorization, emphasizing the importance of organizing ideas, creating mental images, and focusing on keywords. It suggests strategies such as recognizing details like size, color, and time, and improving guessing skills when comprehension is incomplete. The document also provides examples of keywords to aid in understanding spoken conversations.

1. Listening: Level 4

2. Organizing Ideas

3. Organizing Ideas
Good organization:
Helps you better remember English information
Helps you better respond to English information
Creating mental pictures for English words
Building guessing skills for when you can't catch
everything you heard or read in English

4. Creating Good Mental Images of Situations
• Try to guess which words might make good
keywords
- Words that tell us relevant information
about details
• Pay attention to detailed information:
- size, color, shape, location, time, etc.

5. Creating Good Mental Images of Situations
Now let’s listen to the following conversation!
[Keywords]
sweater small large size blue color store

6. Memorizing Words
• Don't waste time translating back and forth
• Keep the passage in English in your head
• Just figuring out the keywords can help you
know where a conversation is taking place,
even if you didn't hear everything

7. Memorizing Words
Now let’s listen to the following conversation!
[Keywords]
flight to Memphis delay depart
8:00 half past 8:00 evening

8. Memorizing Words
Pay attention to:
- Units of figures/numbers (e.g. 10mm)
- Time of Day (e.g. 10AM? 10PM?)
- Number of characters
- Relationship between characters (Fighting? Joking?)
- Conversation flow
- Way characters question each other (What? Where?
Why? When? Which? Do? How?)

9. Memorizing Words
Now let’s listen to the following conversation!
[Keywords]
Does (Interrogative Sentence), tie, shirt, absolutely not,
What (Interrogative Sentence), thinking, style, try this, don't
go together

10. Memorizing Words
One more example!
[Keywords]
5 o'clock, today, 25% off, 30 minutes, 10%, Saturday,
Christmas, next month, Thanksgiving Day

11. Organizing Ideas

12. Listening: Level 4