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Listening 1 is a listening course which aims at developing students’ abilities to understand
spoken English, grasp the main ideas in given speeches, answer questions about them and take
down notes of their major aspects. Different types of situations are provided through
cassettes played in class. Students should be able to follow up with these cassettes and give
answers to various kinds of questions. These include objective questions as well as
information questions. All required skills for grasping native speakers’ language are taught
throughout the course. For example, students are taught how to observe the pronunciation of
different words as well as identical/similar pronunciations of words, contractions in spoken
language, expressions and idioms used in spoken English as well as words with more than one
meaning in different contexts.