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6.1.1 Responsive Listening
English · Grade 10 · 3 lessons in the design
What this covers
- Responsive listening and empathy
- Listening to views that differ from your own
- Responding without dismissing
- Listening across cultural difference
What you will be able to do
- listen responsively to a speaker's point of view
- respond in a way that shows the speaker was understood
- listen without dismissing views that differ from their own
- appreciate the role of listening in maintaining social harmony
Key questions
“How do you listen properly to someone you disagree with?”
Lessons
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Listening responsively
40 min · 2 practice tasks · quizResponding to what was said rather than to what you expected.
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Listening across difference
40 min · 2 practice tasks · quizHearing beliefs you do not share, without pretending to agree.
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Listening that keeps the room together
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizShowing you understood a view you do not share, without pretending to agree, so the conversation can continue.