Stage 2 guidelines for listening: Grammar

Here is a grammar objective for Stage 2 learners when listening:

• To understand complex sentences of various types, including those found in descriptive paragraphs and simple narration in past.

  The kinds of sentences you encounter depends somewhat on the language. Complex sentences usually have more than one verb, and may be made up of two simple sentences linked by connecting words, called conjunctions. In English, such sentences might have the following conjunctions: after, and, but, although, since, who, that, when, or where.

Here are some grammar strategies for Stage 2 guidelines for listening:

• Analysis

  Identify basic clause types and include them in your language learning activities.

• Planning

  Set up your comprehension techniques to include various kinds of sentence types.

• Inferencing

  Once you have set up activities to include a variety of sentence types, concentrate on the meaning of the sentences more than on the forms.

Here are some grammar techniques for Stage 2 guidelines for listening:

• The Series technique
• The Photo Book technique
• The Picture Descriptions technique

Here is a grammar activity for Stage 2 guidelines for listening:

Listen for connecting words you have learned.

• Generic module: Stage 2 guidelines for listening: Grammar
• In overview module: Stage 2: Listening modules
• In modular book: Guidelines for a Language and Culture Learning Program, by Carol J. Orwig
• In document collection: Other Resources
• In bookshelf: Language Learning

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