Syllabus in Listening Comprehension

The Listening course will consist of three different parts namely A, B & C. The short conversations and dialogues in Part A and B make up the introductory material meant to bridge the gap between what secondary school students used to be exposed to,(i.e. very little exposure to authentic Listening) and the complex language in the long lectures of Contemporary Topics. In addition, the students will work on a variety of material (A: short dialogues B: longer conversations) instead of having the same pattern of long lectures all through the semester.

Week 1 Lesson I

Part A Listening to short dialogues

Dialogues with sound confusion. Objective: Using the context to identify homonyms and minimal pairs. Dialogues with idioms Objective: To familiarize students with the most commonly used idiomatic expressions. (Provide students with list of idioms) Answering inference questions about dialogues Objective: Training students in the skill of inferencing, understanding information that is not directly stated in the dialogue. Dialogues involving agreement and disagreement. -Suggestions -Invitations -Offers/Requests -Contradictions -Assumptions Objective: Understanding the language of Agreeing/Disagreeing/Suggesting/Offering

Lesson II

Lesson III

Lesson IV

Week 2 Lesson V Lesson VI Conversations about topics/plans and problems. Dialogues with special verbs (causative verbs) (used to ) plus practice test. Practice Test

Lesson VII

Listening to telephone messages Objective: To be able to understand telephone messages and take notes. Listening to moving instructions Objective: To be able to understand and follow instructions.

Part B Longer conversations

Week 3 1. Six mini lectures Objective: Training students to get the main topic.

Lesson VIII Mini lectures 1, 2 and 3 Lesson IX Mini lecture 4, 5 and 6 Objective : Training students in the skill of Predicting ( from the lecture students have to predict what the rest of the talk will be) Three longer conversations Objective: Listening for specific details

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Week 4 Lesson X Conversation: 1, 2 and 3 Objective: Matching and ordering items Practice for short and longer conversations In Term

Week 5 Week 6

Part C Contemporary topics. Listening to longer lectures.

Week 7 Week 10 Week 11 Unit 1: The world of Comics Unit 2: The Keys to Advertising Unit 4: Memory, our key to Learning Interm I Unit 5: The Film Making Process Unit 6: Non verbal Communication. Your body is talking Unit 7: Effects of the Sun Unit 9: The Biological Clock Unit 10: The First Year of Life Objective: Train students in the skills of note taking and outlining Practice test 1: Unit 11 Practice test 2: Unit 12 Interm II

Week 12 Week 13 Week 14 Week 15 Week 16 Week 17

Week 18