A typical lesson sequence from the current position involves
a threepart
lesson sequence consisting of pre-listening, while-listening and postlistening.
The pre-listening phase prepares the students for practice in
listening for comprehension through activities involving activating prior
knowledge, making predictions, and reviewing key vocabulary. The
while-listening phase focuses on comprehension through exercises which
require selective listening, gist listening, sequencing and so forth. The
post-listening phase typically involves a response to comprehension and
may require students to give opinions about a topic, and so on. Field proposes
the following as the format of a good listening lesson:
*Pre-listening
Set context: Create motivation
*Listening:
Extensive listening (followed by questions on context, attitude)
Pre-set task/Pre-set questions
Intensive listening
Checking answers
*Post-listening
Examining functional language
Inferring vocabulary meaning (Field 1998: 245).