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Reading Tips to Improve Your Listening Skills

By Kenneth Beare, About.com

Reading Tips to Improve Your Listening Skills

  • Read the text as you listen to it on an audio book.
  • Take advantage of audio books. Read a page and then listen to that page. Repeat once a day.
  • Read aloud to each other in small groups. Each student is responsible for explaining new vocabulary in the paragraphs he / she reads.
  • Ask your teacher to choose a book to read aloud to the class. Do a few pages each day.
  • Listen to easy audio books in English on your way to and from work.

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