Name: MUJAHIDAH
Group :
AG 3
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Outlining an Essay
Directions: Print the exercise. Look at the essay below. Read the essay and pay careful attention to
how it is organized. Complete the
outline for the essay on the following pages.
Discuss the outline with a tutor.
ESSAY: Learning to Listen in English
As a newcomer to the United States, have you ever
had a difficult time understanding normal spoken English on TV, at work, or in
school? If you have, you are not
alone. Many beginning students of
English have a difficult time learning to listen in English. Listening can actually be one of the more
difficult language skills to master, but there are a number of strategies that
can help you comprehend spoken English better.
These strategies could be broken down into pre-, while-, and
post-listening strategies.
The process of preparing yourself
to listen to a TV program or classroom lecture is sometimes just as important
as the actual practice of listening. If
you know that a lecture or TV program is going to be on a particular subject,
you can practice the strategy of predicting.
Predicting is when you try to guess what you will hear before you
actually hear it. If you think about a
subject before you listen and predict what is going to be said, you will
understand more of the lecture or TV program as you listen. Try asking yourself these questions before
listening: What is the topic? What do I already know about the topic? What do I need to know before I listen? What can I predict will be said?
An excellent
while-listening strategy is the practice of making guesses about what you
hear. Oftentimes, people do not need to
understand or hear every word of a lecture, conversation, or TV show to
understand the main idea of what is being said.
Some ways of making good guesses in listening is to first pay attention
to the speakers’ gestures and facial expressions. These things can often communicate more than
the words people say. To practice this
strategy, try listening to a video without sound. Pay careful attention to the speakers’
gestures and facial expressions. As you
watch, try guessing what the speakers are saying. When you are finished watching, rewind the
tape to see if your guesses are correct.
You will probably be surprised at how much you were able to understand
just by guessing!
An important
post-listening strategy that will help you become a better listener is
evaluating. You need to check to see if
you what you understood from the TV program, lecture, or conversation is
correct. To do this, you can ask a
classmate or co-worker to summarize what you just heard. By doing this, you will be able to determine
whether or not you are making progress in your listening skills or if you need
to adjust your goals and expectations.
Learning to comprehend normal
spoken English can sometimes be a difficult and frustrating experience for many
beginning English language learners.
However, the strategies of predicting, guessing, and evaluating can help
lessen some of the frustration. Try
these strategies today and see if you notice an improvement in your listening
skills.
I. Introduction
As a newcomer to the United States, have you ever had a difficult time
understanding normal spoken English on TV, at work, or in school? If you have, you are not alone. Many beginning students of English have a
difficult time learning to listen in English.
Listening can actually be one of the more difficult language skills to
master, but there are a number of strategies that can help you comprehend
spoken English better.
Thesis Statement:
These
strategies could be broken down into pre-, while-, and post-listening
strategies.
II. Body Paragraph
One:
Topic
Sentence: The problem to understanding
spoken english
Supporting
Ideas or Examples:
A. difficult to understand what they said
III. Body
Paragraph Two:
Topic
Sentence: the strategies to begin the
listening
Supporting
Ideas/Examples:
A. prepare
your self before listening
B. make
a predicting to the topic that you heard
C. Trying
to asking your self about some question
IV. Body Paragraph
Three:
Topic Sentence :
The excellent strategies in Listening skill
Supporting
Ideas/Examples:
A. you don’t need to understand or hear all the
words that they said
B. Pay
your attention to the speaker’s gestures and facial expression
C. trying
to watching a video without any sounds
