Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] listening " in BNC.
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| 1 | Starke was still talking , taking bits of paper out of the drawers in the desk and showing them to Grout , but Steven was n't looking or listening . |
| 2 | Looking and listening . |
| 3 | As they stood looking and listening , the two boys who Renee had chased off the pillbox earlier , came running back towards the pub from the riverbank . |
| 4 | Braggarts can help themselves by working on responding to signals that other people use , looking and listening . |
| 5 | Now was our chance to learn some of those useful tips which have to be omitted from their pages and which a really experienced bird watcher acquires for him/herself over years of serious looking and listening |
| 6 | Educational visits involve doing and experiencing , as well as looking and listening . |
| 7 | People tend to think about languages as a single entity , rather than identifying their own priorities within the four elements : speaking , reading , writing and listening . |
| 8 | I closed my eyes and conjured up my whispering vision : the great log fire , the rocking chairs , Somebody knitting and listening , me talking . |
| 9 | They stayed quietly in the launch , waiting and listening . |
| 10 | These are grouped for assessment and reporting purposes into three profile components — for speaking and listening ( attainment target 1 ) , reading ( attainment target 2 ) and writing ( attainment targets 3 , 4 and 5 ) . |
| 11 | Profile Component 1 — Speaking and listening |
| 12 | Speaking and listening |
| 13 | He emphasised the consequent need for schools to ensure that adequate opportunities were provided for improving accomplishments in speaking and listening . |
| 14 | Employment apart , there are very many other areas of adult life in which teenagers will need increasingly sophisticated competence in speaking and listening . |
| 15 | This is a condensed account of the factors which complicate the business of speaking and listening — readers will easily add for themselves their own accounts of the personal and emotional features which make for vulnerability or call for sensitivity . |
| 16 | 15.24 ATTAINMENT TARGET 1 : SPEAKING AND LISTENING |
| 17 | PROGRAMMES OF STUDY FOR SPEAKING AND LISTENING |
| 18 | 15.25 Through the programmes of study pupils should encounter a range of situations and activities which are designed to develop their competence , precision and confidence in speaking and listening , irrespective of their initial competence or home language . |
| 19 | 15.30 Teaching about language through speaking and listening , which should start for pupils working towards level 5 , should focus on : |
| 20 | But the bulk of assessment in speaking and listening should be conducted locally , recorded by teachers in a common format devised by SEAC in consultation with NCC and CCW . |
| 21 | the assessment of speaking and listening should , where possible , be informal , continuous and incidental , applied to tasks carried out for curricular purposes ; |
| 22 | 16.14 In chapter 7 we say that literature plays an important role in improving abilities in speaking and listening , and in writing , as well as in reading . |
| 23 | 17.16 It is important that teachers should help pupils in this process by recognising the interrelatedness of writing , reading and speaking and listening . |
| 24 | By careful planning of schemes of work to integrate programmes of study for speaking and listening , reading and writing , teachers should be able to foster the writing development of their pupils , helping them to develop an ear for language through reading or listening to works in a wide variety of styles written by really fine authors . |
| 25 | 1.8 The three profile components we recommend are as follows : • speaking and listening — with one attainment target : the development of pupils ' understanding of the spoken word and the capacity to express themselves effectively in a variety of speaking and listening activities , matching style and response to audience and purpose . |
| 26 | The use of language involves a number of skills , mainly speaking and listening ; reading and writing . |
| 27 | speaking and listening — with one attainment target ; the development of pupils ' understanding of the spoken word and the capacity to express themselves effectively in a variety of speaking and listening activities , matching style and response to audience and purpose ; |
| 28 | When we submitted our first Report on the primary stages we recommended that the three profile components , speaking and listening , reading and writing , should be weighted equally in the assessment process . |
| 29 | It includes , for example , language use , language study , literature , drama and media education ; it ranges from the teaching of a skill like handwriting , through the development of the imagination and of competence in reading , writing , speaking and listening , to the academic study of the greatest literature in English . |
| 30 | We concluded this short chapter ( chapter 3 in the final Report ) by summarising the best teaching practice for our three profile components : speaking and listening , reading and writing . |