Unit 1 - Friendship
Unit 1 - Friendship
Unit 1 - Friendship
A world of
friend
Listening 1
Brain
storming
1. What does "A world of friends" mean?
2. Do you have friends from other countries?
How did you meet them?
3. What are the benefits of having friends from all
over the world?
What You'll Learn
Listening 1: Listening 2:
The friend force The best summer
Predicting before listening. of my life
Listening for gists and details. Predicting information
Making inference after after "and" and "but".
reaction.
Module 1:
Predicting before listening
Can you guess what type of information
will you listen?
Track 1
Module 2:
Listening for Gists and Details
I. Listening for Gists/ Main ideas
Gists or main ideas are the most important information about something,
general meaning or purpose of the text.
Listening for gists when you try to understand what is happening even if
you can't understand every word/phrase.
Listener picks up words, intonation and other cues to make a guess at the
main ideas.
E.g.: You listen to these words like sand,
cap, towels, waves, board, sunny, etc.
--> You may guess the topic is about a
beach trip.
✔ Sometimes finding the main ideas is
easy as it is found at the begining of
the listening text, but sometimes it is
not too easy and reuires to listen to the
whole conversation to understand the
general meaning.
II. Listening for details
- you listen for words or
phrases at sentence level.
E.g.: Listen to an announcement to
find the time when the train departs.
1 Read the questions or sentences and guess the content vocabulary.
E.g.: Fill in "Tourist Information Form"
--> the topic is about travel and tourism Steps of listening
2 Underline the key words and guess the synonyms or
paraphrases of the key words for details
E.g.: Factors affecting where organisms live
synonym: factor = reason paraphrase: where organisms live = habitat
You have arrived at your You see there is a You finally open the front
house after work. package on the door and see that the living
All the lights are out. door step room has been cleaned.
Inference is a guess about something that is
not directly stated.
Making inferences while listening means putting
together what you listen with what you have
already know to reach a logical inference.
Excerpt 3: Track 6
1. Nina has a (positive/ negative) reaction.
2. Nina likes the idea of "people, not places." She thinks you can learn more about a foreign
country when you ____.
a. meet the people b. visit the importance places
Module 4:
Predict information after
AND and BUT
We use AND to connect two sentences with similar kinds of information.
E.g.: "... we all came from different states, and we had different religions and cultures."
We use BUT to connect two sentences with contrasting information.
E.g.: "At first, I didn't speak much Spanish, but I learned a lot of Spanish from them and in my
Spanish class, too."
PRACTICE
Listen to the excerpts from Annie's interview. You will hear the first sentence and try to predict
what kind of information in the second one. Choose the sentence ending that makes sense.
Excerpt 1: a. I loved my host family. b. I had some problems with my host family. Track 8
Excerpt 2: a. We all came from the same states. b. We all came from different states. Track 9
Excerpt 3: a. At first, I spoke Spanish well. b. At first, I didn't speak much Spanish. Track 10
Listening 2:
Practice B
The best summer
Complete the
following activities
of my
B forlife
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