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.
Listening for specific information — students listen for
particular information at word level.
Predicting — students try to guess key information contained in
the recording before they listen.
Inferring meaning — students listen to identify the difference
between what the speaker says and what they actually mean.
Identifying emotion — students listen to identify the mood of
certain speakers.
Listening for opinions — students listen to identify the attitude
of certain speakers.
Inferring relationships — students listen to identify who the
people are in the recording and what the relationship is between
them.
Recognizing context — students listen to aural and contextual
clues to identify where the conversation takes place, who is
speaking, etc.