Syllabus in Listening Comprehension

The Listening course will consist of three different parts namely A, B & C.
The short conversations and dialogues in Part A and B make up the introductory material
meant to bridge the gap between what secondary school students used to be exposed to,
(i.e. very little exposure to authentic Listening) and the complex language in the long
lectures of Contemporary Topics. In addition, the students will work on a variety of
material (A: short dialogues B: longer conversations) instead of having the same pattern
of long lectures all through the semester.

Week 1

Part A
Listening to short dialogues

Lesson I

Dialogues with sound confusion.

Objective: Using the context to identify homonyms and minimal pairs.

Lesson II

Dialogues with idioms

Objective: To familiarize students with the most commonly used
idiomatic expressions. (Provide students with list of idioms)

Lesson III

Answering inference questions about dialogues

Objective: Training students in the skill of inferencing, understanding
information that is not directly stated in the dialogue.

Lesson IV

Dialogues involving agreement and disagreement.

-Suggestions
-Invitations
-Offers/Requests
-Contradictions
-Assumptions
Objective: Understanding the language of
Agreeing/Disagreeing/Suggesting/Offering

Week 2
Lesson V

Conversations about topics/plans and problems.

Lesson VI

Dialogues with special verbs (causative verbs) (used to ) plus practice test.
Practice Test

Lesson VII

Listening to telephone messages

Objective: To be able to understand telephone messages and take notes.
Listening to moving instructions
Objective: To be able to understand and follow instructions.

Part B
Longer conversations
Week 3 1.

Six mini lectures

Objective: Training students to get the main topic.

Lesson VIII Mini lectures 1, 2 and 3

Lesson IX

2.

Mini lecture 4, 5 and 6

Objective : Training students in the skill of Predicting ( from the lecture
students have to predict what the rest of the talk will be)
Three longer conversations
Objective: Listening for specific details

Week 4
Lesson X

Conversation: 1, 2 and 3
Objective: Matching and ordering items

Week 5

Practice for short and longer conversations

Week 6

In Term

Part C
Contemporary topics. Listening to longer lectures.
Week 7

Unit 1: The world of Comics

Week 10

Unit 2: The Keys to Advertising

Week 11

Unit 4: Memory, our key to Learning

Interm I

Week 12

Unit 5: The Film Making Process

Week 13

Unit 6: Non verbal Communication. Your body is talking

Week 14

Unit 7: Effects of the Sun

Week 15

Unit 9: The Biological Clock

Week 16

Unit 10: The First Year of Life

Week 17

Objective: Train students in the skills of note taking and outlining

Practice test 1: Unit 11

Week 18

Practice test 2: Unit 12

Interm II