This document provides strategies and tips for developing listening and speaking skills in English. It discusses [1] taking informal notes without worrying about grammar, [2] common idioms and keeping a categorized list of them with meanings and example sentences, and [3] ways to expand vocabulary like practicing new words in short sentences and progressing to more complex ones on a weekly basis.

1. Listening and Speaking I
Mgs. Paola A. Cabrera Solano

2. STRATEGIES FOR TAKING NOTES
• To take notes you can write down
individual words, phrases or
sentences.
• Get your ideas on paper without
worring about grammar.
• Your notes don’t need to be complete
sentences, just enough to help you
recall the information you heard.
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3. IDIOMS
A group of idioms are phrases or
sentences whose meaning can’t be
determined from knowing the
meaning of the individual words.
Example: That test was a piece of
cake.

4. SUGGESTIONS…
 Keep a book of idioms and phrases
you are learning. Then categorize
them by topic or alphabetically.
 Include the idioms, the meaning,
and a complete sentence.

5. SYLLABLES
 As we speak we commonly check the
listener understands what we are
saying. With your books closed try to
list some phrases for checking
undersntanding you know.

6. VOCABULARY EXPANSION
 Play the audios to practice using
vocabulary in context.
 Begin with short sentences and
progress to more complex ones.
 This practice must be done weekly to
practice vocabulary, spelling,
capitalization, and punctuation.

7. THANK YOU
GOOD LUCK
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