Name: Mosab Mustafa H. Abu Toha.

Academic No.: 120102675.

Subject: LISTENING IN E4P

Presented To: Dr. Nazmi Abdul-Salam Al-Masri And My Brothers In ENG.

Dept.

25 April. 2012

The Name Of Allah The Most Merciful The Most Graceful.

The Islamic University of GazaFaculty of EducationEnglish Language Curriculum Foundations

English Language Curriculum Foundations

1-12

Definition:The word listen means to give attention to someone or something in order to hear them.( Oxford Advance Learners’ Dictionary).

ENGLISH FOR PALESTINE ENGLISH FOR PALESTINE contains contains a lot of listening materials including: a lot of listening materials including: lessons, dialogue, exercises, songs, lessons, dialogue, exercises, songs, etc…etc…

• Listening is the ability to identify and understand what others are saying. This involves understanding a speaker's accent or pronunciation, his grammar and his vocabulary, and grasping his meaning.

The importance of Listening: listening is an important receptive skill. That is, one of the important ways of receiving information is through listening

The sub-skills that can be emphasized in listening exercises include:

• Predicting what people are going to talk about.

• Guessing at unknown words or phrases without panic.

• Using one's own knowledge of the subject to help one understand.

• Identifying relevant points; rejecting irrelevant information.

The Stages of Listening Process 1- HEARING occurs when sound waves strike the ear.

2- ATTENTION involves filtering out some messages and focusing on others.

3- UNDERSTANDING refers to making sense of a message by assigning meaning to it

4- REMEMBERING is the process of recalling information from memory.

5- Evaluating it is a stage in which active listeners participate.

6- RESPONDING consists of providing feedback to the speaker.

Three stages in teaching listening

• 1- Pre-listening Activities: before listening.

• 2- During Listening Activities.

• 3- Post-listening Activities: after listening.

1- Pre-listening questions1- Pre-listening questions

The importance of pre-listening materials:The importance of pre-listening materials:1- Pre-listening activities change the role of listeners from passive “recorders” to active participants .

2- Pre-listening activities increase the input.

3- Adopt a positive attitude.

4- Shut out distractions.

We can notice We can notice Grade 9 unit 13 page 80

Grade 9 unit 13 page 80

Grade 12 unit 4 pages 36&39

Not all listening material are preceded by Not all listening material are preceded by pre-listening questions.pre-listening questions.We can notice We can notice unit 1 grade 2 page 4.unit 1 grade 2 page 4.

Unit 1 grade 2 page 4.Unit 1 grade 2 page 4.

In grade 6 unit 2 page 10In grade 6 unit 2 page 10

Pedagogical benefits of no pre-listening:

A.To give learners the chance to hear English spoken by native and to speak English themselves.

B. They practice being fluent and accurate English speakers.

2-Interesting and motivating listening 2-Interesting and motivating listening materials:materials:

There are listening material students There are listening material students are interested in more than others. are interested in more than others.

Some lessons teach learners how to Some lessons teach learners how to use language they learn through use language they learn through listening materials so they will be listening materials so they will be interested.interested.

For instance, inFor instance, in grade 4 unit 3 page grade 4 unit 3 page 18: 18:

InIn grade 4 unit 3 page 18 grade 4 unit 3 page 18

Students hear someone askes about Students hear someone askes about his T-Shirt.his T-Shirt.

In In grade 7 unit 5 page 22.grade 7 unit 5 page 22.

It is about birds of Palestine. Of It is about birds of Palestine. Of course, learners would be enjoyed to course, learners would be enjoyed to know much about their country and know much about their country and environment.environment.

Also they would be happy to know Also they would be happy to know how to speak about birds in their how to speak about birds in their country. country.

In In grade 7 unit 5 page 22.grade 7 unit 5 page 22.

3-Listening materials too difficult for learners.

In English for Palestine, there are some difficult lessons that are not easy to be learned.

For example, in grade 3 unit 4 page 22, the lesson is about animals. Some of these animals are unfamiliar to this stage students. So it’s difficult to learn.

In grade 3 unit 4 page 22

In In grade 5 unit 18 page 74,grade 5 unit 18 page 74, the lesson the lesson is all about the future of humans. It is all about the future of humans. It talks about the space.talks about the space.

* Students of this age don’t know * Students of this age don’t know what plants or space ships mean.what plants or space ships mean.

InIn grade 5 unit 18 page 74 grade 5 unit 18 page 74

Stage ( 5-10) Grade 7- Unit 19- page 78 Grade 9 – Unit 2- page 16

Grade 12- Unit 2 page 19 Grade 12- Unit 3- page29

4-The length of listening materials4-The length of listening materials::

In the first stage, the listening In the first stage, the listening material could be taught will in 45 material could be taught will in 45 minutes. In the second and third stage minutes. In the second and third stage there are some lesson long to be there are some lesson long to be taught well in 45 minutes. Teachers taught well in 45 minutes. Teachers should divide these lessons into should divide these lessons into smaller parts. Consider the following smaller parts. Consider the following two examples:two examples:

Stage (5- 10)Grade 6 – Unit 20 – page 82

Grade 12 - Unit 9 – page 59

5-Listen and Read:Listen and Read is an activity that enable students to do both activities. It is a technique where students can listen to people talking about different topics and where at the same time they can read what they are listening to. The conversations are not fast which allows students to understand better what the people are talking about.

Grade 7- Unit 9 – page 38

In the third stage (11-12)In this stage, there is no listen and read activities .All of the activities have taken this form as illustrated in the picture

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Grade 12 unit 9 page 89

6-The listening questions variation:

In English for Palestine we have various kinds of questions such as listen and match, listen and write, listen and write T/F, answer W/H questions, listen and complete, multiple choices, etc…

InIn grade 4 unit 1 page 8 grade 4 unit 1 page 8

InIn grade 4 unit 2 page 10

InIn grade 4 unit 2 page 12

In grade 5 unit 6 page 28

In In grade 11 unit 3 page 29

InIn grade 12 unit 1 page 9

In grade 6 unit 1 page 8

Grade 9 – unit 1 page 6

Vocabulary and listening

Grade 9-Unit 3-page 22 Listening and understanding

Grade 5 unit 3 page 16

7-Listening exercises that develop students’ comprehension and thinking skills:

InIn grade 1 unit 2 page 12: classifying.

InIn grade 7 unit 6 page 28:

Comprehending& decision making.

In In grade 11 unit 5 page 51:

Classifying.

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InIn grade 7 unit 6 page 28

InIn grade 11 unit 5 page 51

8-Listening activities accompanied by pictures:

A lot of listening activities are accompanied by pictures. Sometimes it is mandatory to have them. Some exercises depend on them.

For example, in grade 1 unit 2 page 10. matching pictures.

In grade 1 unit 1 page 10

InIn grade 3 unit 9 page 54

InIn grade 3 unit 3 page 16

9-Variation of questions in the three 9-Variation of questions in the three stagesstages: :

According to the differences of age According to the differences of age between the three stages learners, the between the three stages learners, the listening questions also differ. listening questions also differ.

Stage 1 (1-4):Stage 1 (1-4):

•Listen and find.Listen and find.

•Listen and say.Listen and say.

•Listen and match.Listen and match.

•Listen and match number.Listen and match number.

•Listen and write and colour.Listen and write and colour.

•Listen and circle.Listen and circle.

•Listen and touch body.Listen and touch body.

•Listen and touch and say.Listen and touch and say.

• Listen and complete the number.Listen and complete the number.

• Listen and write T/F.Listen and write T/F.

Stage 2(5-10):Stage 2(5-10):

• Listen and answer W/H.Listen and answer W/H.

• Listen and complete.Listen and complete.

• Listen and draw on the clock.Listen and draw on the clock.

• Listen and read and write.Listen and read and write.

• Listen and answer T/F Listen and answer T/F

• Listen and write the number.Listen and write the number.

• Listen and say and write.Listen and say and write.

• Listen and match.Listen and match.

• Listen and choose.Listen and choose.

• Listen and complete the poem.Listen and complete the poem.

• Listen and do the activities: Listen and do the activities: complete & W/H.complete & W/H.

• Listen and draw the route.Listen and draw the route.

• Listen then speak and act.Listen then speak and act.

Stage 3 (11&12):Stage 3 (11&12):

•Listen and tick the correct topic.Listen and tick the correct topic.

•Listen and check and complete the Listen and check and complete the words.words.

•Listen and complete.Listen and complete.

•Listen and answer the questions.Listen and answer the questions.

•Listen and add new details.Listen and add new details.

•Listen and say are the speakers.Listen and say are the speakers.

•Listen to the conversation and tick Listen to the conversation and tick T/F.T/F.

• Listen and complete the table.Listen and complete the table.

• Listen and write the phonetic Listen and write the phonetic symbols.symbols.

Thanks for listening.MOSAB M. ABU TOHA