In his book “Keys to Communication: An Essential...

A Focus on the content words, so the listener can understand the context and the main idea of the message. B Detect “signposts” that help to understand how the speaker links their ideas. In a lecture, for example, “moving on to” means the speaker has finished talking about one of the topics proposed. C Use previous knowledge and other information available, such as images or gestures, to infer the meaning of words that the listener might not recognize. D Predict the use of combined words, such as verbs and prepositions that are usually paired up together, like “interested” and “in”. E Practice listening while reading a script in order to get used to different pronunciations of known vocabulary according to the surrounding words.