Teaching Listening Comprehension by Penny Ur: Book Summary
Introduction
After going through Teaching Listening Comprehension book by Penny Ur, I feel that it is a very suitable book to be owned by teachers of English. The book was published by the Cambridge University Press Cambridge at London, New York, New Rochelle, Melbourne and Sydney. There are many interesting exercises or task that they can use when they are teaching listening comprehension. This book can help teachers to device kind of exercises on listening for their students. In part one of this book get to know kinds of listening activities actually suit in real life, particular difficulties likely to be encounter by learner when coping with them and how to may I as future teacher can help my students to master the difficulties. This kind of information in this book will help me to become a good teacher of English and improves student’s interest and ability in listening skill. In chapter two of this book I really got ideas how to cope redundancy and noise which are always occurred when doing listening task. In part two, before I going through this part I always will think recording stuff is the only way to do listening practice but when I go through this book I really get many ideas and realise that there are other medium can be used to conduct listening activities. Attractive pictures and interesting topic suggested in this book for listening class attract me to read this book. From that I can feel that if students given this kind of pictures and topic for their listening class sure they will be attracted toward the class. Another good thing I can find from this book is the language used in this book is easy English. It’s not complicating and easily can be understood. This will attract many people to read this book and get benefit ideas from this book.
Summary
Chapter 1 This chapter emphasis on exploring the characteristic of real life listening. Example of real life listening are listening to
After going through Teaching Listening Comprehension book by Penny Ur, I feel that it is a very suitable book to be owned by teachers of English. The book was published by the Cambridge University Press Cambridge at London, New York, New Rochelle, Melbourne and Sydney. There are many interesting exercises or task that they can use when they are teaching listening comprehension. This book can help teachers to device kind of exercises on listening for their students. In part one of this book get to know kinds of listening activities actually suit in real life, particular difficulties likely to be encounter by learner when coping with them and how to may I as future teacher can help my students to master the difficulties. This kind of information in this book will help me to become a good teacher of English and improves student’s interest and ability in listening skill. In chapter two of this book I really got ideas how to cope redundancy and noise which are always occurred when doing listening task. In part two, before I going through this part I always will think recording stuff is the only way to do listening practice but when I go through this book I really get many ideas and realise that there are other medium can be used to conduct listening activities. Attractive pictures and interesting topic suggested in this book for listening class attract me to read this book. From that I can feel that if students given this kind of pictures and topic for their listening class sure they will be attracted toward the class. Another good thing I can find from this book is the language used in this book is easy English. It’s not complicating and easily can be understood. This will attract many people to read this book and get benefit ideas from this book.
Summary
Chapter 1 This chapter emphasis on exploring the characteristic of real life listening. Example of real life listening are listening to