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TOPIC 1: LISTENING FOR
INFORMATION FROM DIFFERENT SOURCES
Here
the student should be able to give specific information, reproduce in writing
what is heard. To give general opinion about a text he/she has read and give a
general theme/idea /meaning of a text heard. The
student should do that by reading the text based on a variety of issues
including challenges facing the youth in relation to HIV/AIDS, form of child
labour and effect of drug abuse in society Affect reading the text, the student
should be able to respond to different questions about the text he/she has
read. And also she/he should know vocabularies used in the text such as
symptoms, virus, infection, transmit, prolong, ill-treat, HIV etc
Vocabularies in
HIV/AIDS TEXT
HIV
- Human Immune Deficiency Virus
AIDS -
Acquired Immune Deficiency Virus
Stigma
- segregating HIV Victims
Syringes
- A plastic or glass tube with a long hollow needle that is used for putting
drugs into a person’s body
Virus
- A living thing, too small to be seen without a microscope that causes
infections disease in people
Lazar
blades - A thin shape piece of metal that is used in a razor symptoms
Responding
Appropriately to Given Instructions
When
you are listening to texts read by a teacher or someone else you must do the following:
1.
Figure out the purpose for listening. Activate background knowledge of the
topic in order to predict or anticipate content and identify appropriate
listening strategies.
2.
Attend to the parts of the listening input that are relevant to the identified
purpose and ignore the rest. This selectivity enables you as students to focus
on specific items in the input and reduces the amount of information in
short-term memory in order to recognise it.
3.
Listening for the main idea.
4.
Predict.
5.
Listen for specific details.
6.
Recognising word-order patterns.
7.
Check comprehension while listening and when the listening task is over.
8.
Draw a conclusion.
9.
Summarise to get specific information
.
Activity 1
Have
your friend read for you so that you can write down what he/she is reading.
Listening for
General Information
When
you are listening to get the general idea the following must be done:
1.
Note the use of new words.
2.
Listen to the text read by another person
3.
Try to use the new vocabulary in everyday life, including during games.
4.
Check the meaning of words in the dictionary or ask a teacher.
5.
Summarise the general idea behind the text you have heard.
Activity 2
Give
a general summary theme/idea/meaning of a text heard.
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