This is the first in a two part series on teaching listening. It looks at the differences between the receptive skills of reading and listening and what top down processing is. Part 2 in this series looks at bottom up processing and some classroom ideas for practising this. If you like this, check out my other material for English language teachers at: ELTTraining.com https://www.elttraining.com including the CELTA Toolkit 'Grammar for Teachers' course https://www.elttraining.com/course?c... Language Analysis https://www.elttraining.com/course?c...