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Listen to your teacher talking about sources of vitamins and the diseases which can result from not having 
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VITAMIN 
SOURCE OF VITAMIN 
DISEASE CAUSED BY LACK OF VITAMIN 
he driver's seat. Here is the emergency exit. The seats are made of wooden slats. The luggage is put on 
ay seem surprising to think that your students need help in using these clues, but you may find that they 
not used to listening for complete messages in English, and that they listen for words in isolation and get 
ck and stop listening
lize that you only want them to get the gist of what you are saying, they will relax and stop worrying about 
words they do not understand, and they will begin to use background clues to under
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You do not need to restrict yourself to visual clues either. If your listening passage has something to do with 
a market, then bring to class some of the spices, vegetables, and fruits you would find in a market. Give your 
students the time to smell and feel those objects as they listen to you talk. Not only will the clue
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Allow for redundancie
In everyday conversation people use a lot more words than are really necessary to convey their messages. 
They repeat themselves, they restart sentences several times over, they correct themselves, and they use 
fillers such as "you see," "I mean," and "well." These repetitions, false starts, corrections, and fillers are 
redundancies. Your students need experience in identifying and separating the main ideas from these 
redundancies, which are part and parcel of everyone's speech.
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ger contained redundancies. In the following exercise, adapted from Skills for Learning: Development, 
ure 4.1 Vitamins: Student Worksheet 
h vitamins. As you listen, fill in the chart below. 
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