Listening is the ability to understand what others are saying and involves comprehending accent, grammar, vocabulary, and meaning. There are several potential problems with listening including issues with the message content, speaker, listener, and physical setting such as background noise. The document provides solutions for improving listening related to modifying materials for students' levels, providing visual aids, and developing listening skills through varied tasks and exercises at different levels. It also outlines common stages and activities for listening lessons in the classroom.

1. Hertiki Marsaid, S.Pd Listening is Fun

2. Language Skills Listening Speaking Reading Writing

4. What is Listening? Listening is the ability to understand what others are saying It involves understanding the accent, grammar, vocabulary, and grasping the meaning

5. What are some listening problems? The Message The Speaker The Listener The Physical Setting

6. The Message: Content The Speaker: Redundancy The Listener: Lack of knowledge Physical Setting: Noise a. Background noises on the recording b Background noises on the environment

7. What are the solutions? The Message: 1. Grade listening materials according to the students’ level and provide appropriate materials 2. Design task-oriented exercises 3. Provide students with different kinds of input, such as films, TV plays, English songs, daily conversation, etc 4. Find visual aids or draw pictures related with the topic

8. The Speaker: 1. Give more practice to the students 2. Make students aware of different native- speaker accents 3. Select short and simple listening materials for lower-level students and complicated authentic materials for advanced learners

9. The Listener: 1. Provide background knowledge and linguistic knowledge 2. Help students develop the skills of listening by providing varied tasks and exercises at different levels with different focuses

10. Stages of a Listening Lesson Pre-listening: It helps students prepare to listen While-listening: It helps to focus on the listening text and guide the development of their understanding of it Post-listening: It helps students integrate what they have learnt from the text into their existing knowledge

11. Activities in Listening Class Chart-filling English Songs Games

13. Chart-filling 6:00 4:00 2:00 12:00 10:00 get up get up get up get up get up 8:00 Weekends Friday Thursday Wednesday Tuesday Monday

14. Songs Fill in the blanks Scrambled Lyrics

15. Games Whispers Shouting Games

16. Whispers Split the class into two or more teams Whisper a sentence into the ears of the first students in each row They whisper the word into the next student’s ear in their row until the whisper gets to the last student in the row

17. The last student in the row has to say out the sentence The team or teams that get the right sentence scores a point

18. Shouting Game Prepare several sentences Divide the students into two groups Ask one of the members from each group to go in front of the class to write The two students should face the board, they have to listen carefully and write The winner is the one who can finish first

19. Conclusion Some teachers think that listening is the easiest skill to teach, whereas most students think it is the most difficult to improve We must find out how listening skill can be improved and what activities are useful in teaching listening