Name: ESL 183 LS Listening Skill Identifying MI
Uploaded: 2014-06-16T03:38:00.000Z
Duration: 12 min 35 s
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has a listening skill these listening skills

tips that you can use to help improve your ability to listen and

understand in English the listening skill

not I'm not sure how this works in your language

but in English when we start a conversation

at the very beginning of the conversation we will have

a very general statement that usually tends to be

the main idea as the conversation goes on

and the way we do this is by adding details

of examples so we have our main idea at the very beginning

and then we add details and examples to become more

let's take a look of how this general main idea topic

becomes more and more specific using details

and examples so if we met each other and I said to you you know

I might go on in the conversation and tell you I've had

at the listening skill for unit 1 so we've already talked a little bit

about how English conversations tend to start very

generally and list the main idea and then go on to become more specific

you will be listening to a lot of lectures and presentations

for that particular lecture or presentation

now it's really hard when you're listening to lectures to remember

everything but it is very important to be able to identify the main ideas

and the details that support the main ideas

so the most important things that the speaker want you to understand and

its part of the introduction just as I mentioned

in a conversation we usually start with the main idea

in the introduction to a lecture or presentation

that's where we find the main idea or what the speaker will talk about

and we can identify it if we can recognize

some of these signal phrases or words that a speaker uses

when they want to introduce a main idea so here's a couple of examples

you might hear something like today we will focus on

you will know what the topic or the main idea

you will get more details but you may also get

additional main ideas and you will know that they are main ideas because these

often in the lecture or possibly rephrased

things rephrased or repeated you know you probably have

so after you listen and you take notes you want to go back

and review your notes try to see hmm... which were the ideas that were repeated

or rephrased and that will help you to identify

okay so let's get some practice in identifying main ideas

below we have two introductions to presentations now remember we talked

introductions being the place where you're probably going to hear the main

and some of the signal words that the speaker might use

for most people business meetings are boring but they don't have to be that

today I'm going to give you a few tips on how to run an effective business

although every tip might not work for you meetings

don't have to put everyone in the room to sleep

okay so let's look at some of these possible main ideas

business meetings are boring because they're too long

well let's go back and let's think about the signal words we heard

an effective business meeting so let's see if we can find something

tips on how to run an effective business meeting

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ESL 183 LS Listening Skill Identifying MI

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