Listening for Feelings and Messages in Conversation

If you just listen to a presentation or conversation, you can hear the feelings and the messages that are being conveyed.

Feelings
To find feelings that are being felt by the reader or presenter, you need to listen carefully and comprehend their hand motions, volume, facial expressions, and gestures.

Messages
To find messages conveyed in a presentation, all you have to do is, again, listen carefully. You should watch how they convey their message and what their main point is. The main idea of their presentation is probably what the message is.

How to be a good listener
To be a superb listener, you must listen to every detail and soak in all of the information that the reader or presenter is giving out. You need to fully comprehend all of the things that they are saying.

Language Arts/Listening/ Viewing/Speaking

Standard 1: The student uses listening strategies effectively. (LA.B.1.3).

Objective 3: Acknowledges the feelings and messages sent in a conversation.

Amusement Park Activity

Listening Log -

1. Have everyone choose a subject
that they find interesting and write a
brief presentation on that subject.

2. Make the class give their
presentations orally.

3. Instruct the listeners to write down
the messages and feelings that they
think the presenter is conveying.

4. Pass around the sheets with the
suspected feelings and messages on it.

Did You Know?

Legend has it that Disney first came up with
the idea of Disneyland while visiting an
amusement park during the thirties and was
dismayed by the rusty rides and filthy
midway. He wanted to build a better park
with all of his wealth he built a high quality amusment park.

Vocabulary

Legacy - Something handed down
from an ancestor or a predecessor or from the past.

Comprehend - To take in the meaning,
nature, or importance of; grasp, understand.

Message- A usually short communication
transmitted by words, signals, or
other means from one person, station,
or group to another.

Feeling- To be emotionally affected by,
or to emotionally effect.

Links

How to listen effectively 3 steps to how to listen effectivly