Word of mouth - first listening task

Building on the example we worked through last week, today we went down to the Learning Centre to start the first of two listening assessment tasks.

You had the choice of listening to one of two radio programmes from the BBC Radio 4 "Word of Mouth" series.

Word of Mouth 1 was about issues associated with the speech and language problems or disorders.

Word of Mouth was about bilingualism and the process of learning a new language.

Your job today was to listen to one of these and take notes (using the Cornell Method we talked about last week if you find it helpful).

I also gave out a series of general questions which can be used with either problems. The questions focus on: summarising the main ideas; the purpose and intended audience of the programme; point of view of programme; and, finally, your evaluation of the programme in terms of its intended purpose.

You'll remember, I hope, that I gave out a sample response to these questions based on the programme we listened to last week. You should look at the example as a guide when producing your own responses to the questions.

Remember that as well as summarising the content of the programme, this task requires us to analyse and evaluate the programme.