Listening 3 (241 Najd)

Text book: Mosaic 1 listening and speaking – Middle East Gold Edition

Chapters to be Covered:  8 chapters

Content and Objectives: The Listening component of this course aims at training students to understand recorded audio-visual materials of more complex texture and structure than previously taught.

These materials will be in the form of conversations, lectures or texts dealing with different topics of interest as they appear in the assigned textbook. An attempt is made to introduce students to certain idioms and idiomatic expressions. Particular attention is given to training students to infer the meaning through a study of context with more emphasis on intonation and tone of speech.

Skills and strategies:

 

Inferring main ideas

Following instructions

Writing an outline

Producing a summary

Retention of information

Retrieval of information and talking notes on specific information.