DIRECTIONS: Determine where each strategy belongs, write BL for Before Listening,
DL for During Listening, AL for After Listening.

1. Summarize what the assignment was about and test yourself on your notes.

2. Write notes that help you remember ideas such as speaker's opinions and outlooks,

3. Make guesses about what you may learn as you listen.

4. Have a brief conversation in your head to clarify key words.

5. Make a quick backtracking and re-listening to a line or two to clear
up confusion.

6. Read and listen to other sources for more information about the topic and share these ideas
with others.

7. Preview activities you need to complete after you listen or turn the title of an assignment into a
question.

8. Help yourself better understand a listening assignment by thinking of things you already know
about a topic.

9. Use symbols to write your reactions so you won't forget them.

10. Go through the list and think about what you know about them.​