Syllabus in Listening Comprehension
The Listening course will consist of three different parts namely A, B & C.
The short conversations and dialogues in Part A and B make up the introductory material
meant to bridge the gap between what secondary school students used to be exposed
to,(i.e. very little exposure to authentic Listening) and the complex language in the long
lectures of Contemporary Topics. In addition, the students will work on a variety of
material (A: short dialogues B: longer conversations) instead of having the same pattern
of long lectures all through the semester.
Week 1
Part A
Listening to short dialogues
Lesson I
Dialogues with sound confusion.
Objective: Using the context to identify homonyms and minimal pairs.
Lesson II
Dialogues with idioms
Objective: To familiarize students with the most commonly used
idiomatic expressions. (Provide students with list of idioms)
Lesson III
Answering inference questions about dialogues
Objective: Training students in the skill of inferencing, understanding
information that is not directly stated in the dialogue.
Lesson IV
Dialogues involving agreement and disagreement.
-Suggestions
-Invitations
-Offers/Requests
-Contradictions
-Assumptions
Objective: Understanding the language of
Agreeing/Disagreeing/Suggesting/Offering
Week 2
Lesson V
Conversations about topics/plans and problems.
Lesson VI
Dialogues with special verbs (causative verbs) (used to ) plus practice test.
Practice Test
Lesson VII
Listening to telephone messages
Objective: To be able to understand telephone messages and take notes.
Listening to moving instructions
Objective: To be able to understand and follow instructions.
Part B
Longer conversations
Week 3 1.
Six mini lectures
Objective: Training students to get the main topic.
Lesson VIII Mini lectures 1, 2 and 3
Lesson IX
2.
Mini lecture 4, 5 and 6
Objective : Training students in the skill of Predicting ( from the lecture
students have to predict what the rest of the talk will be)
Three longer conversations
Objective: Listening for specific details
Week 4
Lesson X
Conversation: 1, 2 and 3
Objective: Matching and ordering items
Week 5
Practice for short and longer conversations
Week 6
In Term
Part C
Contemporary topics. Listening to longer lectures.
Week 7
Unit 1: The world of Comics
Week 10
Unit 2: The Keys to Advertising
Week 11
Unit 4: Memory, our key to Learning
Interm I
Week 12
Unit 5: The Film Making Process
Week 13
Unit 6: Non verbal Communication. Your body is talking
Week 14
Unit 7: Effects of the Sun
Week 15
Unit 9: The Biological Clock
Week 16
Unit 10: The First Year of Life
Week 17
Objective: Train students in the skills of note taking and outlining
Practice test 1: Unit 11
Week 18
Practice test 2: Unit 12
Interm II