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3. Listening

Listening to Information about Agenda

In this section, you are going to learn how to understand information about student’s agenda. Use the
following strategy to boost your listening skill.

Predicting Technique

Predicting is a listening technique which you use the information you have to make an
expectation for what you will hear next.

Predicting ➔ Based on that topic and main idea, you can use your background
Using knowledge to guess what will be said next. Your own experience will help
Content you to expect details the speaker will probably include
Predicting ➔ The first few sentences of a conversation or presentation will help you to

Using predict and prepare for what comes next. If you identify that the purpose is
Organization to share an opinion, you will expect to listen for reasons and examples for
why organic food is better.

a. Listen to an audio about a plan and answer the following questions.

Guess what will be further discussed. In the following box, circle the topic that may be possible to
appear.

Assistant

People Venue

Time Price

Situation Invitation

Vehicle

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