the integration of activities to develop the four macro competencies.

STRATEGIES FOR LISTENING
Cognitive: Comprehension, storing/memory process, retrieval
Metacognitive: Assessing, monitoring, self-evaluating and self.testing

• Listener extract meaning from the message.
• Use both bottom-up and top-down processing.
• Language of utterances is temporary.
• Teaching listening strategies can make more effective listeners.
• Some tasks to improve acquisition are true-false, picture identification, and sequencing tasks.
• Input- what a learner hears
• Intake- the part that the learner notices
• Only intake can serve as the basis for language development.

Noticing Activities: Using the listening texts for comprehension activities and use them for language awareness.

Restructirirng Activities: Oral or written tasks that involve productive use of selected items from the listening text.

• Emplos more vague or generic words than written language.
• Show variation between formal and informal speech
• May be planned or unplanned.

Use of fixed expressions

• "It doesn't matter."
• "I see what you mean."
• "Just looking, thanks."

Styles of speaking

• What is appropiate for the context?
• "Whacha up to? /What are you up to?
• Differences between formal and informal speech.