Listening, as we know, is the skill of understanding spoken language. Listening is an
essential skill, present in most of the activities we carry out throughout our lives, as
Lindsay and Knight shows:
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We listen to a wide variety of things, for example; what someone says during a
conversation, face to face or on the telephone; announcements giving
information, for example, at an airport or railway station; the weather forecast
on the radio; a play on the radio; music; someone else’s conversation
(eavesdropping); a lecture; professional advice, for example, at the doctor’s, in
the bank; instructions, for example, on how to use a photocopier or other
machinery; directions; a taped dialogue in class (2006: 45)