Listening Bottom-up strategies

Listening bottom-up Strategies


Bottom-up strategies, focus on listening for details and involve tasks that focus on understanding at a sound or word level. Tasks are ‘intensive’, as they focus on looking for particular details. 

Let's practice!!

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Part 1 Pay attention to the intonation, listen and repeat the following words:

  1.  Dessert
  2. Desert
  3. Receipt
  4. Recipe
Answer the question what mistake did Mark make in the shop?


Part 2 Fill in the blanks


It's ____ outside so I thought it would be ________ to ______ a wolly hat.
What do you do when you are ______________?
The ________ looked easy.










Another sample Activity:

Another activity could be you as teacher reads out a number of sentences, and ask the students to write down how many words there would be in the written form. While the task might sound easy, for learners the weak forms in normal connected speech can make it problematic, so it is very important for you to say the sentences in a very natural way, rather than dictating them word-by-word.
sample:
  • I’m going to the supermarket.
  • Do you want to go for a walk?
  • Let’s have a nice dinner!
  • I’d better go soon.
  • You shouldn’t have told her about it.
  • What are you doing tonight?
  • There isn’t any sugar.
  • What have you done?

Ask your students to compare, Learners can be asked to compare their answers in pairs, before listening again to check. While listening a third time, they could write what they hear. The idea with this activity is that your students will become more aware of the sounds of normal spoken English, and how this is different from the written or carefully spoken form. This will help them to develop the skill of recognising known words and identifying word divisions in fast connected speech.

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