... thing for many people. Learning English
means learning four related skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. In teaching and
learning English as a foreign language in Vietnam, reading ... said in the interviews showed the facts that their reading skills
were too bad. It needs improving more and more.
4.4. What difficulties do students encounter in learning reading skill?
The information ... activities in Pre-reading
Table 6: Studens’ activities in While-reading
Table 7: Studens’ activities in Post-reading
Table 8: Students’ areas of difficulties
Table 9: Students’ difficultiesin the...
... following information. They fail in
listening.
The teachers should let students be in a good
mood, in a listening environment. Students
must be familiar with the topic that they are
going ...
carry out a listening lesson.
The consultants and experts should give
suitable teaching document
The difficulties and solution
in teaching and learning English
through listening
Presented ... hard to get
information when they are listening.
Finally,
Finally, the material facilities, teaching
document ( even teaching method) and
language environment may take a big
influence on...
... Listening, Reading, Grammar and Writing.
Reading is the beginning part of each unit. The aims of this is that through reading and
through developing reading skills such as scanning, skimming, ... you think is the most difficulty when teaching reading
comprehension with the textbook?" are aimed at investigating difficulties the teachers are
coping with in teaching reading comprehension. ... vocabulary
focus into a skill focus: listening, writing, speaking and reading. This, therefore, has
advantages as well as disadvantanges in teaching and learning English.
In the new English...
...
some interesting expressions:
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misinterpreting of the speaker’s utterances. I observed that students here did not give a final
rising in yes-no questions, or a final rising-falling in statements, ... disliked learning English
explained the main reason for not being interested in the subject is its difficulties. They
complained about the irregularities in grammar as well as in pronunciation. ... main
problems, as stated in the Findings, were word-ending sounds, stress and intonation.
5.2. Suggestions for pronunciation teaching in upper secondary schools
In accordance with the above findings,...
... language
- Deducing the meaning and use of unfamiliar lexical items
- Understanding the meaning of explicitly stated information
- Recognizing indicators in discourse
- Interpreting texts by going outside ... going outside it
- Identifying the main point or important information in a piece pf discourse
- Distinguishing the main ideas from supporting details
- Extracting salient points to summarize the ... Previewing
Previewing can be previewing title of the reading text, previewing the picture
provided in the course book, previewing the question and information provided in the pre-
reading phase in...
... teaching of listeningin most colleges in
China is not encouraging. The traditional way of teaching, such as, introducing some new
difficult words, listening to the tape again and again and ... and interesting in teaching listening courses, thinking as
much as possible about the needs of students concerned.
Warm-up Exercises in Practice
1. Reading Stories
Stories, if interesting and ... from making much progress inlistening comprehension. In this
paper, what we want to discuss is how to make listening classes more interesting and how
to develop students' listening ability....
... “prevailing” in line 19 is closest in
meaning to
(A) essential
(B) dominant
(C) circular
(D) closest
40. All of the following words are defined in the
passage EXCEPT
(A) low latitudes (line1)
(B) ...
understanding the past is vitally important and
requires ______ of earlier cultures.
(A) the ruins examined
(B) examining the ruins
(C) of the ruins to be examined
(D) that the examined ruins
12. ... during the early twentieth
century.
(A) won
(B) winning
(C) who has won
(D) the winner of
4. constituting one of the earliest engineering
techniques, ______ in Paleolithic time was done in...
... exclusively for business
transactions.
30. The word "excavating" in line 19 is closest in
meaning to
A). Living
B). digging
C). assembling
D). building
31. According to the passage, ... surveying methods
(B)Using satellites to communicate with mountain climbers
(C)Obtaining new information about a mountain
(D)Controlling satellites from the top of a mountain
41. (A)To indicate ... instructor his sketches
(D)Change the color of the sky in his painting
34. (A)By listening to her father
(B)By working for an artist
(C)By talking to the studio art instructor
(D)By taking...
... difference in how much
is understood.
Hearing versus Listening
The first step to active listening is to understand the difference between hearing and listening:
hearing: perceiving sounds with the ear
listening: ... that?
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LISTENING COMPREHENSION
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A speaker will often announce his or her main points at the beginning of a lecture, as in the following
example:
Freud divided the personality into three distinct ... acceptance
–
LISTENING COMPREHENSION
–
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the greeting “What’s up?” in a reading comprehension passage. But you might hear something of the sort in
one of the passages on the listening test.
On...
... we'll be finished.
M: I'm going to need a new pen after this.
What are the speakers doing?
(A) Signing letters. √
(B) Buying a new pen.
(C) Making a sign.
(D) Finishing a book.
35. ... Mini-Tests for ListeningComprehension
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Parts I, II, III, and IV
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SECTION I: LISTENINGCOMPREHENSION
Part ... will be seasonably mild with winds developing in
the evening.
Now read question 43/44 in your test book and answer it.
43. What should people take to work in the morning?
(A) Snow boots.
(B)...