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three benefits like a means to avoid boredom in the class, encourage students to read literary work and achieve some moral values with pleasure and amusement. Besides those benefits, of course it will enrich students’ vocabulary and the acquirement of English skills and grammar as well. Students will not feel they should study a lot because they enjoy reading the novel. Teaching listening using novel may sound weird. Usually, if it is dealing with novel, we just assume that the teaching learning activity is for reading, speaking and prose. However, it is possible if we have the audio material of this novel. The audio material should be exactly the same as the novel. Here, I suggest teaching listening using the audio material from Mitch Albom’s For One More Day. I suggest listening practice with the audio and written material from For One More Day about social issue especially about committing suicide. The material is from the part of this novel entitled Chick Tries to End It All. At first, the teacher explains briefly about the novel and asks whether the students already read the novel or not then asks about the general topic in the novel. Then the teacher asks about their knowledge on suicide, whether they have seen this in the society and about their feelings and thoughts on this topic. The teacher also gives time to the students to discuss suicide with their friends. Then, the teacher distributes the handouts and exercise to the students. The teacher asks them to read for a while and prepare themselves for the listening practice. If the students are ready then they can start the listening practice by guessing the correct or incorrect sentence in the handout compared to the information they listen to. If they already finish with the first section, they can move to the next section to guess the missing word and write it down based on the listening passage. After that, the teacher starts to check the answer by asking them to come in front and write the answer on the white board. Finally, the teacher asks the students to listen another part from Chick Tries to End It All and asks them to take a note. After listening to the audio material twice, the teacher asks them to discuss their summary and asks the representative of groups to retell the story in front of the classroom. The following are the general procedures of teaching listening from the audio-material of the novel: 1. The teacher explains briefly about Mitch Albom’s For One More Day. 2. The teacher asks the students about their opinion on suicide. 3. The teacher asks the students to make a short discussion about suicide 4. The teacher hands in the handouts and exercises to the students 5. The students listen to the audio material and guessing the correct or incorrect information 6. The students listen to the audio material and write down the missing words. 7. The students listen to the audio material and make the note-taking 8. The students discuss the finding of the note-taking in the group of four or five then send one representative to retell it in front of the class. References Abrams, M.H. 1981. A Glossary of Literary Terms. New York: Holt, Rineheart and Winston, 4 th edition. Albom, M. 2007. For One More Day. London: Little Brown Book Group. Bukatko, D. 2008. Child and Adolescent Development A Chronological Approach. Boston New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. Conger, J. J. 1996. Adolescence and Youth: Psychological Development in a Changing World. London: Longman Publisher Group. Eysenck, H. J. 1969. Dimension of Personality. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. Feist, J. and G. J. Feist. 2009. Theories of Personality. New York: McGraw Hill. Forster, E.M. 1974. Aspects of the Novel. Harmonsworth: Penguin Book. Guerin, W. L. 1979. A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature. New York: Institute d’Etudes Theologies. Henkle, R. B. 1977. Reading the Novel. New York: Harper and Row Publisher. Holman, C.H. and W. Harmon. 1986. A Handbook of Literature. New York: Macmillan Publisher Company. Hornby, A. S. 1995. Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary of Current English. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Hurlock, E. B. 1974. Personality Development. USA: McGraw-Hill, Inc. Kalish, R. A. 1973. The Psychology of Human Behavior. San Francisco: Wadworth Publishing Company. Lidz, T. 1968. The Person. New York: Basic Book Inc. Little, G. 1970. Approach to Literature. Sydney: Science Press. Martin, B. W. and C. B. Stendler. 1959. Child Behavior and Development. New York: Hartcourt Bruce and World Inc. Moody, H.L.B. 1968. Literary Appreciation. London: Longman. 89