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Here are some of the main skills covered in the Listening lesson plans on this
site, together with a brief description of what each skill involves.
Listening for the main idea - students listen to identify the overall ideas
expressed in the whole recording.
Listening for details students listen for groups of words and phrases at
sentence level.
Inferring meaning students listen to identify the difference between what the
speaker says and what they actually mean.
Inferring relationships students listen to identify who the people are in the
recording and what the relationship is between them.