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Listening for detail An important listening skill. Students listen to a tape and get the most important information from it. To focus the students’ attention, they can be given questions about the tape before they listen to it.

Example:
Students listen to a tape about the problems of the world. Before listening, they read questions such as:

1. What does the speaker think are the five main problems of the world?
2. Which country does he give as an example of each problem?
3. What solution does he suggest for each problem?

Students can then try to answer one or more of the questions before listening (a pre-listening activity), or listen to the tape and then answer the questions.