Hello Students,
This weeks daily guidance is for listening practice. Read below the tips carefully and apply them to the practice.
Use the resources in your community to practice listening to English.
- Visit places in your community where you can hear English spoken.
- Go to an English school, an embassy or an English-speaking Chamber of Commerce.
- Go to a museum and take an audio tour in English.
- Follow a guided tour in English of your city.
- Call or visit a hotel where tourists stay and get information in English about room rates, hotel availability or hotel facilities.
- Call and listen to information recorded in English, such as a movie schedule, a weather report or information about an airplane flight.
- Watch or listen to programs recorded in English.
- Watch television programs.
- CNN, the Discovery Channel or National Geographic
- Watch movies, soap operas or situation comedies
- Rent videos or go to a movie in English.
- Listen to a book on tape in English.
- Listen to music in English and then check your accuracy by finding the lyrics on the Internet (e.g., www.lyrics.com).
- Go to Internet sites to practice listening.
- National Public Radio (www.npr.org)
- CBS News (www.cbsnews.com)
- Randall's Cyber Listening Lab (www.esl-lab.com)
- BBC World Service.com Learning English (www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish)
- Get CDs with full-length lectures. Full-length lectures/presentations are available from UC Berkeley.
Link:
The TOEFL iBT® Test: Improving Your Listening Skills. (n.d.). Retrieved July 11, 2017, from https://www.ets.org/toefl/ibt/scores/improve/advice_listening_high
- Go to an English school, an embassy or an English-speaking Chamber of Commerce.
- Go to a museum and take an audio tour in English.
- Follow a guided tour in English of your city.
- Call or visit a hotel where tourists stay and get information in English about room rates, hotel availability or hotel facilities.
- Call and listen to information recorded in English, such as a movie schedule, a weather report or information about an airplane flight.
- Watch television programs.
- CNN, the Discovery Channel or National Geographic
- Watch movies, soap operas or situation comedies
- Rent videos or go to a movie in English.
- Listen to a book on tape in English.
- Listen to music in English and then check your accuracy by finding the lyrics on the Internet (e.g., www.lyrics.com).
- National Public Radio (www.npr.org)
- CBS News (www.cbsnews.com)
- Randall's Cyber Listening Lab (www.esl-lab.com)
- BBC World Service.com Learning English (www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish)
Practice: http://www.examenglish.com/TOEFL/toefl_listening.htm
I think these tips are very useful because listening to the pronunciation of a language of a native person helps you improve your pronunciation as well as improving your listening and makes it easier to recognize sounds
ReplyDeletepracticing our listening is important to improve this ability, I personally do it listening to songs that it is very difficult for me to recognize words the first time I do it, I also watch television programs with their titles in English or I even watch YouTube videos where native people explain how a word is pronounced correctly.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your tips are very useful for me, in my experience listening songs, tv shows etc it’s very difficult for me but with your practice I want to be better with my listening 😊
ReplyDeleteThese tips for listening practice are too useful, I have tried some like taking a tour with a foreign guide and it is a really special experience, you should pay attention to the history or the information it gives but also paid attention to each word and its pronunciation It is difficult but rewarding, your mind is working. I have also tried listening to songs and watching movies without translation; What I like very much because sometimes the dubbing is very bad, but I think that we should not keep the music and movies so I will put into practice more of your tips to improve my listening and at the same time my speaking. I have tried to be surrounded by people who only speak English but being in a context where the native language is Spanish I have only been able to do it with Chicanos ", this helps because in the same way you increase your vocabulary but it is difficult because it really changes the pronunciation of someone who is a native speaker to someone who has learned English as a second language.
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