Introductory video (5 minutes)
FREE PREVIEWSome housekeeping . . . and a brief overview (5 minutes)
What do you currently believe about teaching listening? (10 minutes)
Activating schema . . . and an experiment (20 minutes)
Top-down versus bottom-up processing . . . and some core principles (30 minutes)
A task – and some points for discussion (20 minutes)
Accents ... and embracing plurality. (20 minutes)
Features of connected speech quiz (15 minutes)
Features of connected speech . . . and a complication! (30 minutes)
The greenhouse, the garden and the jungle: from saying to hearing (10 minutes)
A task – and some points for discussion (20 minutes)
Right structure, wrong focus (20 minutes)
Deciding what language to focus on in the pre-listening stages (15 minutes)
Planning your pre-cycling (10 minutes)
Pre-cycling . . . and feeding forwards (20 minutes)
A task . . . and some points for discussion (30 minutes)
Checking hearing in comprehenstion tasks (35 minutes)
Exploring and exploiting language from listenings (15 minutes)
Reconstructing texts (10 minutes)
Making space for students to speak (10 minutes)
FREE PREVIEWA task . . . and some points for discussion (20 minutes)
Gapping audioscripts: why, how and what to do with them (35 minutes)
Other tasks that focus on the stream of speech (25 minutes)
A task . . . and some points for discussion (30 minutes)
A quick survey of attitudes towards pronunciation (5 minutes)
There's more to pronunciation than ship and sheep! (10 minutes)
Integrating a more listener-centred approach to pronunciation into your lessons (20 minutes)
Grammar and beyond (25 minutes)
The last few odds and ends . . . and some further reading (10 minutes)
A task . . . and some points for discussion (20 minutes)
