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Pp ngọc anh : I will introduce to you two main methods of listening in English.

The first is : Passive listening method

For this method, you don't need to listen to understand; you just need to practice listening to it every
day in your spare time or anytime when you are taking a bath, washing dishes, washing clothes,
etc.When you listen to this much music, your brain will go through a process of processing information
and training your reflexes. It's like when you hear a song, you don't intentionally sing along, but two or
three days after you do something, you will hum along to the tune of the song without purpose.

After we get used to hearing a gradual practice, we will come to the second method. That is the active
listening method. For this method, you need to listen to understand; at most, you can catch the main
ideas in the article and summarize the content of the article. To do this well, you need to have a solid
grasp of grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation.

Some apps allow us to practice pronunciation every day that you can download like : say it, accent
training and pronunciation English.

5 Exerciseces to improve listening skills.


1. Silence
2. Mixer
3. Savereing: Enjoy mundane sounds.
4. Move throughout listening positions
5. Acronym (Receive, Appreciate, Summarize, Ask)
The first one is silence.Just three minutes a day of silence is a wonderful exercise to reset your ears and
to recalibrate, so that you can hear the quite again. If you can’t get absolutely silence go for quite, that’s
absolutely fine.

Second I call this ‘’ the mixer “ so even if you’re in a noisy environment like this and we all spent a lot of
time in places like this listen in the coffee bar to how many channels of sound can I hear ? How many
individual channels in that mix am I listening to ? you can do it in a beautiful place as well, like in a lake.
It’s a great exercise for improving the quality of your listening.

Third, this exercise I call “ savoring” and this is a beautiful exercise. It’s about enjoying mundane
sounds.Mudane sounds can be really interesting if you pay attention. I call that the “ hidden choir” it’s
around us all the time. The next exercise is probably the most important of all these, if you just take one
thing away. This is listening positions the idea that you can move your listening position to what’s
appropriate to what you’re listening to. This is playing with those filters.Remember I gave you those
filters ? It’s starting to play with them as levers, to get conscious about them and to move different
places. These are just some of the listening positions or scales of listening positions, that you can use.
There are many. Have fun with that it’s very exciting.

And finally, an acronym. You can use listening, in communication if you’re in any one of those roles and
I think that probably is everybody who’s listening to this talk, the acronym is RASA which is stand for “
receive” which means pay attention to the person; “appreciate” making little noises like “ hmm” , “ oh”,
“ok “. “Summarize” the word “ so” is vey important in communication; and “ ask” – ask questions
afterwards. I believe that every human being needs to listen consciously in order to live fully, connected
in space and in time to the physical world around us, connected in understanding to each other, not to
mention spiritually connected because every spiritually path I know of has listening and contemplation
at its heart.

Here are some video channels and apps that you can practice listening to every day.

Podcast : listening time, BBC learning English drama…

Youtube : tedtalk, Learn to listen through watching movies : learn English with tv series, share English…,
learn to listen through music.

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