Listening and Note-taking unit 2 How to solve traffic jams (Macrostrategy: Predicting) Aims To introduce and practise Predicting To practise note-taking To engage in critical thinking Macrostrategy 1: Predicting We make predictions all the time. For example, we might predict how long it will take to write an email, or how a friend is going to react to some news we have to give them, or what will be the morning’s news headlines. When listening to a foreign language we can use two main types of information to help predict what is going to be said next backgroundknowledge and knowledge of context. Background general knowledge of the world knowledge of the foreign culture specific subject knowledge
