lunes, 28 de abril de 2008

New practice through listening

Hi everybody
I would like you to work with two pieces of news from the following website http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/newsenglish/.
Choose Concentrating solar power (April 2008) and Reports from 2006 (Response to Pinochet death, December 2006). Both of these articles have audio material.
Listen to them and transcribe the texts with the aid of the Pronunciation Dictionary.

Listening is a demanding skill. A good listener needs to be able to draw on a range of skills, including:
  • Listening for general meaning.
  • Listening for specific information.
  • Coping with unknown vocabulary.
  • Predicting what is going to be said next.
  • Using prior knowledge to aid understanding.
  • Coping with different accents. Furthermore, audio will help you improve pronunciation and practise phonetics using the IPA.
After carrying out this activity, I'd like to have some comments.
Thanx

Susan

3 comentarios:

Anónimo dijo...

Siguiendo este link se pueden descargar el mp3 de los archivos de audio que incluyen estos textos. Espero que sea de utilidad.

http://www.mediafire.com/?cjytjmmkbmd

Anónimo dijo...

I just ended the listening of one of the repots, the one about pinochet... I cannot find the other report, but i'l ask somebody to help me...

I think this link is really usefull for practice. It's interresting listening the pronunciation of a native speaker.

Thank you... Bye!!!
Mara...

Anónimo dijo...

i cant find the link concetratin soilar power either!! where is it! its so importnat to hear it