2012-2013英语必修3人教版新课标unit 5金牌教学设计(4) 5. reading and underlining a really useful way to help us with our listening is to become aware of 'thought groups' . when we speak, we need to divide speech up into small ‘chunks’ to help the listener understand messages. these chunks or thought groups are groups of words which go together to express an idea or thought. in english, we use pauses and low pi