Tips to Improve Tips to Improve Your Listening AbilityYour Listening Ability(excerpts from presentation)(excerpts from presentation)

INOMORI TakashiINOMORI Takashi

Meiji Gakuen High SchoolMeiji Gakuen High School

ListeningListening Do you like listening?Do you like listening? Are you good at listening?Are you good at listening? Which are you better at, reading or Which are you better at, reading or

listening?listening? What makes listening difficult?What makes listening difficult? What makes listening easy?What makes listening easy?

Factors to Make Factors to Make Listening HardListening Hard VocabularyVocabulary How they soundHow they sound Background KnowledgeBackground Knowledge

One More ThingOne More Thing

Oral Reading PracticeOral Reading Practice 1 Know what it means first.1 Know what it means first. 2 Repeat after the CD.2 Repeat after the CD. 3 Synchronized Reading (with the 3 Synchronized Reading (with the

CD)CD) 4 Shadowing 14 Shadowing 1 5 Shadowing 2 5 Shadowing 2

ReviewReview

In order to improve your listening In order to improve your listening ability you need to:ability you need to:

have more vocabularyhave more vocabulary know how English words sound know how English words sound have good background knowledgehave good background knowledge and practice reading it aloud many and practice reading it aloud many

times in many different waystimes in many different ways

What Do You Need to What Do You Need to Do?Do? Find the material which is a little bit hardFind the material which is a little bit hard Believe your textbooks are the best Believe your textbooks are the best

sourcesource Read newspapers.Read newspapers. (in Japanese first / in English later)(in Japanese first / in English later) Use MP3, iPod, cellphone, etc.Use MP3, iPod, cellphone, etc. Have concrete goals. (TOEIC, STEP, etc.)Have concrete goals. (TOEIC, STEP, etc.) Do it at your own pace.Do it at your own pace. (You don(You don’’t have to be perfect.) t have to be perfect.)