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Lesson 5
Monitoring
Strategies:
* Paying attention
* Getting the idea quickly
* Using linguistic clues
* Using other clues
* Cooperating with peersObjectives:
* To guess vocabulary from context
* To draw inferences
* To recognize discourse markers functions

Monitoring, which means checking or observing, plays an important role ineffective listening. Effective listeners check whether they correctly understand the meaning of whole chunks of the message, monitor any confusion they encounter, and correct inaccurate guesses.
Whenyou are reading, you can always go back and read something again if you find it hard to understand. But listening is more difficult in this respect. In a conversation you may be able to ask the speakerto repeat or explain, but this not the case in one-way listening, as it is a recorded lecture.
On the other hand, you can expect the speaker to keep more or less to the same subject. But there willalso be points where he/she ‘changes direction’, for example, presenting contrasting opinions on the subject, or giving examples that contradict each other.
Monitoring includes asking yourself thesequestions:
* Have I heard that correctly?
* Have I understood what the speaker meant?
* Have I understood why the speaker said it?
* Has the speaker changed topic?
* Whatis the speaker going to say next?

Task 1

What do you think the text will be about?

Listen carefully to the text that the teacher is going to read out. There may be some words you don’trecognize, and points where you have to change mind about meaning. Concentrate on the monitoring questions shown as bullet points above. Make notes on what you hear. When the teacher stops, say what youthink will come next.

Task 2
The Kyoto Protocol News

Pre-listening
Step 1

The expressions or words on the left will appear on the video. In pairs, match these words with their definitions...