can you lift the table?
appropriate language function
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What does that mean???
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When we develop students’ listening skills in English, we are essentially helping them to comprehend and respond to what the speaker wishes to convey. In real-life situations, this would extend to understanding the message and performing some functions based on it. Such functions could range from following simple instructions (Get me a glass of water, will you?) or directions (Turn left at the corner and continue straight ahead until you come to the crossroads) to more complex functions such as understanding the speaker’s attitude, distinguishing facts from opinions, responding to directives and so on.
In this unit we have three activities that will help you make your students understand the English used for language functions. These activities are just examples of classroom exercises with which your students can practise real-world English. You could design other activities along similar lines to help the students practise other language functions.