listen
part of speech
verb (listen, listens, listened, listening)
meaning for a pupil
1) To listen is to pay attention to sounds or words so that you hear them: listen to music. tree →
2) To listen is to take advice and do what someone says: He never listens! tree →
sense in the lessons
the student taking in the explanation («I am listening. I will remember …»); in class «listen carefully», «listen to the whole problem»; in everyday life listening to music, stories, friends; in safety «listen for traffic», «listen to the lifeguard»
examples
- Student: I am listening. I will remember: «more» — add … tree →
- Listen to the whole problem. tree →
- Listen carefully to the instructions. tree →
- We listened to a story about a dragon. tree →
- I like to listen to music in the car. tree →
- Listen! Can you hear the birds? tree →
- Stop, look and listen before you cross the road. tree →
- Thank you for listening. tree →
- Listen, and I will tell you." tree →
note
No operation clue. The «t» is silent: say «LIS-en». We «listen to» something; «hear» is what reaches your ears even when you do not try.
In the corpora
- Listening at the door usually gives you only scary half-pieces; asking «Is everything OK?» later works much better.
- When someone says they are hurt by comments, the kind thing is to listen, not to argue.
- She whispers to her mum that the girls watched a scary film and she lay awake till three, listening to every creak.
- Good parents ask how you feel, not only what you saw, and they listen.
- Almost everyone can learn to dance with practice and by listening for the beat, the steady pulse of the music.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «listen» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.