Welcome to English 4you!!  😊 Are you teaching English?  Are you looking for resources to teach your class group??  Do you want to improve your student's listening and speaking skills?  Let's talk about top down and bottom up teaching processes and see a few sample activities!  The terms top down and bottom up refer to ways in which someone might process a listening text.  In many books on listening they are seen as two separate strategies that can be used by students to process and understand listening texts, but what exactly do they mean?  ​