Lower Intermediate Listening for students of English as a Second Language

Listening

To follow conversations and discussions, informal reports and talks, and instructions

1. Use pre-listening techniques to prepare for a listening task
2. Identify topic, overall key idea, and main ideas
3. Use active listening strategies
4. Refer to pre-listening materials and use context clues (e.g., definitions, examples) to determine meanings of unfamiliar words and phrases.
5. Record information
6. Use appropriate course technology to complete assignments.

To listen for discrete items

1. Listen for specific information (e.g., names, phone numbers, dates)
2. Listen for specific pronunciation elements (word stress, sentence/question stress, linking, phrasing)
3. Write from dictation

Speaking

To participate in conversations and discussions

1. To participate in conversations and discussions, and listen and contribute actively.
2. Recognize their own influence within interpersonal communication.
3. Identify effective and ineffective communication.
4. Manage communication anxiety effectively.

Reading and Writing

To prepare for, support, and extend listening and speaking

1. Follow written assignment instructions
2. Recognize topic, main ideas, key details
3. Follow sequences of information and ideas
4. Use simple context clues, (e.g., definitions)
5. Write notes, messages, short reports and complete forms and assignments.
6. Use notes for speaking tasks (e.g., informal presentations)

Classroom Skills

Take responsibility for the following:

1. attendance and punctuality
2. class work and assignments
3. participation and teamwork