Semi- Detailed Lesson Plan on Listening

I. Objectives:
At the end of the lesson, the students will be able to:
1. Restate the definition of listening.
2. Follow the listening process to have an effective listening skill.
3. Practice the tips for effective listening.
II. Subject Matter
General Topic: Listening
Specific Topic: Definition of listening
The listening process
Kinds of Listening

III. Procedure

A. Motivation
Make the students listen to an audio. Ask what they understand from the audio material.

Questions:
1. What do you understand from the first audio material? How about the second?
2. Why do you think that it is difficult to understand the second audio material?
3. Do you always encounter these kinds of sounds?

B. Presentation

Checking prior knowledge:
1. What do we get when we jumble the word SILENT?
2. Yes, we can have the word LISTEN. Anyone who can tell me when do we listen? Do we
listen every day?
3. Thank you, that is right, we listen every day, we use 45% of our time listening.
4. How about when you hear a dog barking, is that listening?
5. That is right, its not listening, let us find out the difference between listening and
hearing.
Lesson Proper
1. Listening vs. hearing Listening is voluntary and is a skill while Hearing is involuntary
and is an ability.
2. Why be a good listener?
To be recognized and to recognize.
To be valued and value others.
To feel appreciated and appreciate others.
To feel respected and respect others.
To be understood and to understand.
3. Do you know that there is also called Listening Process? It starts with
Receiving>Decoding>Selecting>Interpreting>Comprehending>Retaining>Reacting>Res
ponding. With this process, do you think we can easily communicate?
4. That is right; we must follow the process in order to have an effective listening skill. On
the other hand, there is also Barriers in Listening, these barriers prevents us from
listening effectively.
Equate with hearing
Uninteresting topics
Speakers delivery
External distractions
Personal concerns
Personal bias
Language/ culture differences
5. There are two kinds of listening, the first is called Emphatic Listening (which we use in
informal settings) and the second is Critical Listening(or when we listen to the discussion
of our teachers). Which of these two do we use right now?
6. That is right; we use Critical listening as you listen to me, and as I listen to your answers.
7. There are several tips for effective listening.
Dos
a. Be mentally prepared to listen.
b. Evaluate the speech, not the speaker.
c. Be unbiased to the speaker by depersonalizing your feelings.
d. Fight distractions by closing off sound sources.
e. Ask questions to qualify and not to overshadow intelligence.
f. Send appropriate non-verbal signals time to time.
Donts
g. Dont pay undue emphasis on vocabulary as you can use the context to
understand the meaning.
h. Dont pay too much attention to the accessories and clothing of the speaker
i. Dont raise your responses when the speaker is speaking.
j. Dont get distracted by outside influences.
k. Dont show boredom.
8. In order to comprehend and understand the speakers, it is best to follow these tips.
There are several distinctions between Good Listeners and Poor Listeners:
Work at listening
a. Poor Listener: Shows no energy output, fakes attention.
b. Good Listener: Works hard; Exhibits alertness.
Resist distractions
c. Poor Listener: Is distracted easily.
d. Good Listener: Fights/ Avoids distractions; tolerates bad habits in others.
Keep your mind open
e. Poor Listener: Reacts to Emotional words
f. Good Listener: Interprets emotional words; does not hang up on them.
Thought is faster than speech
g. Poor Listener: Tends to daydream with slow speakers.
h. Good Listener: Challenges, anticipates, mentally summarizes, listens between
the lines to tone and voice.
Judge content not delivery
i. Poor Listener: Tunes out if delivery is poor.
j. Good Listener: Judges content, skips over delivery errors.
Listen for ideas
k. Poor Listener: Listen for facts.
l. Good Listener: Listens for central theme.

Evaluation:
Listen to the Audio material that I will be playing, and answer these questions:
1. Who is the one calling?
2. What is the name of the callers shop?
3. Where is the shop located?
4. What does Tina wanted to do with the catalogue?
5. Where is the address of Tina?

Assignment:
Choose a partner and prepare a telephone conversation, Write it on a one whole sheet of paper
and present it to the class next meeting.