Listening is one important step to achieve our goal of speaking English and to be a good speaker one has to be a good listener right also tell me is the process of hearing and listening the same.. YES/ NO confused there is a difference between the two hearing is the act of perceiving any sound but listening is something which we cautiously choose to do it is more of an active process that require a concentration or attention.
To be a good Listener one has to fully understand what the other person is trying to communicate so it involves hearing, understanding and interpreting the things while learning any non-native language we have to enhance our listening skills so let's check out how we can do that.
1. LISTEN TO A VARIETY OF THINGS
Listen to variety of things like TV news theories music audio files speech given by any famous personalities etc. This is because the accent or style of each speaker is different so listening to different things will familiar arise us with different direction.
2. LISTEN TO NEWS
As the style of reading news is very basic and does not involve any slang in it will be easier to us to relate and understand it you may later switch to different things and increase the level of difficulty.
3. LISTEN WITHOUT SUBTITLE
Try listening to something without the subtitles. The subtitles see how much it can interpret later you may turn the subtitles on and check whether you were correct the same is to be done while listening to a song see whether you are able to understand the lyrics and later jackets try to sing along for practice it.
4. BE PREPARED
It is always better to be prepared no suppose you are going to some place where more of instruction will be in English like attending a conference are going to an airport then first prepare yourself for the probable words you will hear like finding the direction greeting the person you need details related to your flight etc. If i'am aware of the meaning and sounds of the words it will be easy for me to understand the instruction.
5. HOW TO DO THE LISTENING ACTIVITY?
Play an audio file type try to pick up words check the process taken check the tone try to understand what is being said you may even the repeat the same audio again and again if you did not understand it now suppose there are words which you are listening for the first time note them in a book check its meaning and usage this will help you to develop your vocabulary.