LISTENING SECTION

LISTENING SECTION

• Passage is read 2x.
• 1st time, listen carefully and TAKE NOTES!
• 5 minutes to read multiple choice questions before 2nd reading.
• During the SECOND time, you may take notes AND answer the questions.

DURING FIRST LISTENING

• Link what you hear to what you know
• Make predictions (sticky notes)
• Tone, Purpose, Speaker, Main Ideas, Audience, Structure
• (Tucker Plays Swag Music Around School)

TONE

• The attitude adopted by the narrator or the by a character
• Example: joyful, sad, frightened, urgent.
• "Living life without fear, puttin 5 carats in my baby girls ear"
• Billy Madison
• Write a sentence that shows a frightened tone.

"YOU SEE, I USUALLY FIND MYSELF AMONG STRANGERS, I DRIFT HERE AND THERE...

PURPOSE

• A person's reason for writing.
• Ex) to inform, entertain, persuade, or explain.
• Ouija Board
• What if I wrote a paper on the effects of social media? What would be my purpose?
• Could there be more than 1?

SPEAKER AND MAIN IDEAS

• Who's talking? 1st, 2nd, 3rd POV
• What is the main thing the speaker wants us to take away from this?

AUDIENCE

• Who is the speaker talking to?
• Who is watching the performance?
• If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended,
• That you have but slumbered here While these visions did appear."
• http://youtu.be/bxw5aprXK4M

STRUCTURE

• How the story is set up
• Ex) paragraphs, letter, poem, rhyming, essay

QUICK TIPS

• Use abbreviations
• If you miss something, leave space for second reading
• Write: title, names, dates, places, key words, lists or steps
• Reasons, repeated words or phrases
• Anything that says "Most Important, in short, in summary"

BEFORE THE 2ND LISTENING

• Once allowed, read multiple choice
• Based on questions, see what you missed and fill in gaps
• Find questions you can't answer yet confidently
• Make notes of specific details you need to listen to 2nd time
• Identify info the questions ask you to infer ex) tone or conclusions

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