On this unit I learnt about listening. It is a receptive skill that can be responsive instead of be produced, giving sense to meaninful sounds and the context what we are listening.
When you make listening activities, generally contains conversations with incomplete sentences that have utterances, simple grammar and general vocabulary. I those activities there will be different text types like: conversations, stories, songs, etc, where you will have to recognize interaction patterns, according it is developed.
In the same way that the others skills, listening also have subskills, those are: listening for gist, global understanding, specific information, which each one has its purpose respectively, according the kind of activity propose.
As teachers is better to use authentic material because they contain real spoken language from native people, then students can get accostume their ears to listen english conversation and understand phonemes, minimal pairs or sentece stress. For that reason, I think it is convinient to introduce the class with easy listening activities like complete tables with specific information about a
certain topicHere I leave you a very interesting video which teach us how to combine speaking and listening activities for children.
References:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g64K8Y6cbcY
It is important for teachers to apply the use of connected speech because in that way students can understand easily the listening. As you said Andrea minimal pairs are difficult to recognise for this I consider phonology has important part in this skill.
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