How To Improve Your English Listening Skills In 3 Steps
you are an English Learner and one of
your goals is to improve your listening
skills maybe by hearing all of the
details or knowing every English accent
or understanding 100% of everything or
even remembering all the information but
the truth is all of these methods are
wrong but don’t worry today I’m going to
teach you three simple steps to actually
improving your English listening skills
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below let’s jump right in the steps
alright step number one dissect the
information this means to examine the
information you are listening to and
break it down into specific or certain
parts the main idea is to break down the
audio file you’re listening to into
three different parts
so for each part you want to tell the
general idea or the situation okay so
let’s see this in action we have our
first one now as an English Learner
sometimes it can be hard to truly
understand American jokes so what we’re
going to do is listen to a situation
where two Americans one of them happens
to be me are laughing about something
together and we will dissect the info so
let’s jump right in here we go alright
number six what job do you think you’d
be really good at so apart from like
something in the arts you mean I was
thinking about that because in your
answer for the previous question I think
you already kind of told us that you’d
be good at the rhyming arts yeah so yeah
I mean not to toot my horn I think I’d
be good it I think I did
I agree look out for that Emmy hey I’m
gonna be right so look a friend write
her as she gets the awards alright right
there in the street number seven
okay so we finished listening to the
clip now what happened we noticed that
the first part involved one of the women
which actually was me asking the other
one a question okay remember with ISEC
ting the information from the audio file
we’re not looking for any specific
details just the overall idea then for
part two the other woman gives her
answer or response to the question and
finally both of us start laughing so
remember step one is to just dissect the
info breaking it down into three parts
and seeing what happens in each part
okay all right now moving on to step
number two step number two is paraphrase
the information this means to reword
using your own words
the information that you are listening
to okay so as you’ll see in a little
visual on the left side whatever you
hear you need to take a portion of it
and then literally write it over in your
own words okay so we’re gonna do this
again we’re gonna listen to the file and
I’m gonna show you exactly how to do
this here we go okay here’s a file again
now remember the goal is to be able to
understand it and to paraphrase only
certain parts or you can do the entire
audio clip depending on what you’re
listening to okay so here we go all
right number six what job do you think
you’d be really good at so apart from
like something of the Arts you mean I
was thinking about that because in your
answer for the previous question I think
you already kind of told us that you’d
be good at the rhyming arts yeah so we
are there I mean not to toot my horn but
I think I agree hey I’m gonna be right
there hook a friend okay so what do you
notice what I did was I chose three
different parts one section from each of
the parts that we had before so part one
part two and part three I
chose a portion from each of those parts
and I paraphrased those parts for
example part one I chose alright number
six what job do you think you’d be
really good at now as an English Learner
that maybe a little bit long so how can
you paraphrase that what is the general
idea of that statement well I said she
asks her about a job she would like and
that’s true again by paraphrasing you’re
showing that you are understanding
what’s going on in general in the audio
file okay then part two I chose the
woman said not to toot my own horn but I
think I’d be a good you know now she
didn’t necessarily finish her statement
it seems like she kind of cut herself
off but again I can paraphrase this
because grammatically it’s incorrect at
the end and again this is a natural
English conversation so just like in
your own language sometimes you speak
and your grammar may not be the best
okay so what’s happening is I need to
figure out what toot my own horn means
so I’ve looked that up and I realized I
means to compliment myself so I
rephrased or paraphrased and said the
woman complements herself and says she
would like a job in the arts okay I’ve
paraphrased that alright and then part
three I chose the part where she says
hey hey I’m gonna be right there the
friend right next to her as she gets the
award now I was the one actually saying
that and I paraphrase that and said the
main woman agrees and says she will be
with her as a friend so what’s happened
is the information that came from the
audio file has now been put into my own
words okay all right now moving on to
step number three it’s gonna be very
important for us to understand something
we need to create questions you see this
means to come up with questions related
to the topic being discussed now why is
this good this is good because it causes
a connection this connection is very
important for you as you’re trying to
improve
your English listening skills remember
listening is not just about knowing each
and every word it’s about understanding
what’s going on so let’s see this again
for the third step we’re gonna listen to
the audio clip again and see if we can
figure out some future topics remember
the goal is to be able to find key
information and create questions about
that information so listen one more time
all right number six what job do you
think you’d be really good at so apart
from like the arch I was thinking about
that because in your answer for the
previous question I think you already
kind of told us that yeah I agree
okay so now you see what’s going on now
we’re in step three and you’re
understanding a little bit more about
the audio clip and what’s going on
between these two women but now we’re
creating questions of a part one I wrote
two questions oh why is she asking her
about a job and were there more
questions prior to this question again
it’s connecting me to what I’m listening
to then for part two I asked well why
did she say toot my own horn I know the
meaning of it because in step two I
already looked it up to figure out what
it meant but why is she saying that okay
and number two why did she mention an
Emmy
you know the award and for part three
what comment made them start laughing
and then number two why did they laugh
when she mentioned being on screen so
you see what’s happening in Step three
is you’re literally beginning to
understand and connect to what you’re
listening to this is really going to
enhance your ability to understand when
you are listening to something in
English okay so these are the things you
need to understand again the three steps
are dissect
paraphrase and create now you can
improve your English listening skills I
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