Tips to Improve Your Listening Ability excerpts from presentation

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Tips to Improve Your Listening Ability(excerpts
from presentation)

• INOMORI Takashi
• Meiji Gakuen High School

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Listening

• Do you like listening?
• Are you good at listening?
• Which are you better at, reading or listening?
• What makes listening difficult?
• What makes listening easy?

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Factors to Make Listening Hard

• Vocabulary
• How they sound
• Background Knowledge

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One More Thing

• Oral Reading Practice
• 1 Know what it means first.
• 2 Repeat after the CD.
• 3 Synchronized Reading (with the CD)
• 4 Shadowing 1
• 5 Shadowing 2

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Review

• In order to improve your listening ability you
  need to
• have more vocabulary
• know how English words sound
• have good background knowledge
• and practice reading it aloud many times in
  many different ways

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What Do You Need to Do?

• Find the material which is a little bit hard
• Believe your textbooks are the best source
• Read newspapers.
• (in Japanese first / in English later)
• Use MP3, iPod, cellphone, etc.
• Have concrete goals. (TOEIC, STEP, etc.)
• Do it at your own pace.
• (You dont have to be perfect.)