The Online Get ESL Listening Course

Day 1
Diagnostic pretest

Day 2 and 3
Mastery Exercise 1   Choose restatements; Learn to focus on the second line of a conversation; Identify synonyms in an answer choice as being a restatement of what the speaker said

Day 4 and 5
Mastery Exercise 2  Active and passive structures; Identify who is doing what in conversations using passive and active structures

Day 6 and 7
Mastery Exercise 3   Who, what, and where questions; Draw conclusions about who is talking based on what is implied in the conversation; Draw conclusions about what the speaking is doing or  what he will do next based on what is implied in the conversation; Draw conclusions about where the conversation takes place based on what is implied by the speakers

Day 8 and 9
Mastery Exercise 4   Quantity, time, and comparisons; Identify key information in dialogs about quantity; Identify key information in a dialogs about time expressed through verb tenses and time expressions; Identify key information in a dialogs using comparisons             

Day 10 and 11
Mastery Exercise 5   Negative expressions; Understand dialogs using negative statements; Understand dialogs using double negative statements; Understand dialogs using almost negative statements; Understand dialogs using comparative negative statements

Day 12 and 13

Mastery Exercise 6  Inference questions; Using the context of the conversation, learn to draw inferences

Day 14 and 15
Mastery Exercise 7  Idioms and phrasal verbs;Using the context of the conversation, accurately guess the meaning of idiomatic expressions;Using the context of the conversation, accurately guess the meaning of phrasal verbs         

Day 16 and 17
Mastery Exercise 8   Emphatic expressions of suprise;Understand the meaning of dialogs using emphatic expressions of surprise with present tense "be," "can," and "do";Understand the meaning of dialogs using emphatic expressions of surprise with past tense "did,"  and present perfect tense "have"

Day 18 and 19
Mastery Exercise 9    Expressions of agreement and disagreement;Recognize common expressions of agreement and disagreement;Understand if one speaker agrees or disagrees with another speaker's ideas or proposals

Day 20 and 21
Mastery Exercise 10  Expressions of suggestions, offers, invitations, and requests;Recognize common expressions to make suggestions, offers, invitations, and requests;Understand if a speaker makes a suggestion, an offer, an invitation, or a request of another

Day 22 and 23
Mastery Exercise 11 Contradictions and questions; Understand the meaning when a speaker corrects what another speaker says;Understand the meaning when one speaker asks a question of another speaker

Day 24 and 25
Mastery Exercise 12  Real and unreal conditions; Learn that an affirmative condition implies a negative reality;Learn that a negative condition implies a positive reality; Learn that a past tense verb implies a present reality; Learn that a past perfect verb implies a past reality; Learn that "had" can be used without "if" by speakers using subject-verb inversions

Day 26 and 27
Mastery Exercise 13   Wish expressions; Learn that an affirmative wish implies a negative reality; Learn that a negative wish implies a positive reality; Learn that a past tense verb implies a present reality ;Learn that a past perfect verb implies a past reality

Day 28
Post test

Day 29 / Day 30
Practice test 1 / Practice test 2

1. Recognize restatements  as being the same in meaning to  the second line in a conversation

2. Understand who is doing what in active and passive statements

3. Determine who the speakers are, what the speakers are doing, and where the speakers are by using the context

4. Understand quantity, time, and comparison statements

5. Discern meanings with negative, almost negative, double negative, and comparative negative statements

6. Accurately guess the meaning of idiomatic expressions and phrasal verbs by using the context

7. Draw inferences by relying on the context

8. Understand expressions of surprise

9. Understand  expressions of agreement and disagreement

10. Understand  expressions of suggestions, invitations, offers, and requests

11.   Understand when speakers make contradictions or ask questions

12. Understand the implied present and past realities with real and unreal conditional statements

13. Understand implied present and past realities  in wish statements