Saturday's Chores & Smartphones

I want to tell you about my exercises on http://www.esl-lab.com/ (like usual).

The first one, I listened on easy level. The title was Saturday's Chores. This conversation held by two persons, dad and son. Son want to play outside the house but his dad doesn't give him a permission because they have an agreement. If he want to play outside, he should clean all around the house. So, the father asked his son to vacuum the floors, wash the walls, make his bed, put his toys. As the achievement, the dad will get his son to go out for the meal. Of course his son love this and agree for do the task from his father. Fortunately, I got 100% score. 

And then, the medium is Smartphones. This conversation held by two persons, the girl and young man. Young man is very selfish and he said something bad about his parents. He has two phones, though. His parents said to push him to find a job, and buy the smartphone with that salary. I got 80% score, not bad.

Hamburger and Public Bath

Hello again! I'm back to post my exercise on Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab. You can visit here : http://www.esl-lab.com/

As the good college student, I agree with my lecturer to post about my practice on listening.
I chose easy and medium (that was my lecturer said).
First, I chose easy exercise under the title Hamburger Restaurant on http://www.esl-lab.com/fastfood/fastfoodrd1.htm. Why I chose this topic? Because I always interested the topic that relates with food *yummy! It is quite hard for me because the speaker usually uses implied words, and they speak very fast. Finally I just got 60% on the score. Lastly, something that I got from this conversation is don't buy fast food like hamburger because it is very expensive and always serve in large portion. (really?)
Then, I listened for Japanese Public Bath on http://www.esl-lab.com/bath1/bath1.htm. You know, I love all about Japanese's cultures.They are unique and interesting. But for listening exercise I am not the best. The speakers are western people. They are quite shock because the culture in Japan is absolutely different with USA. My score is so-so, like the easy one.

Randall's ESL Listening Practice (again)

Hello, I'm sorry I didn't post anything since.. forget it! hehe.. now, I wanna share my exercise again from http://www.esl-lab.com/ that link is usually I use to practice (I recommend it for you too).

Like I did before, I listened three different parts : easy, medium, and hard. Before I explain I wanna give you the image of conversation that I listened.
okay, the first one is Eyeglasses For You (http://www.esl-lab.com/record/recrd1.htm) This is not a dialogue, just like a advertisement about eyeglasses store. It promotes many things, include of the price. For me it is so easy. It proves I could answer all questions with right answers.
Then, I chose Drug Addiction (http://www.esl-lab.com/drugaddiction/drugaddictionrd1.htm) as my medium one. The conversation is talk about Brandon's engage that gets drug addiction. Her name is Stephanie. Stephanie's sister told the strange signs that she watched from her like skipping work, repair her vehicle with expensive price, and stole money. It is important for Brandon because they will marry soon. This dialogue is quite long, and we should keep it our ears to understanding it.
And the last is Diet Plan (http://www.esl-lab.com/dietplan/dietplanrd1.htm) . I chose it because it is common for girls like me to know about it deeply. As we know most of the girls don't want to be fat, because they think it breaks our fashion and it makes us look bad. The characters are Andrew and the woman. Andrew tells her about his diet program. But surprisingly Andrew still buys junk food from McDonald. Her sister gives advice to him.

That's all! Hopefully it will help you guys! :)

Listening Practice IV

Hello, guys! Today I wanna share my exercises again to you.

First, I watched video from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nAnT3PASak and I feel excited with it. Because in that video, we can see the huge difference between American English and British English. It's quite difficult for me because I always use American English than British. However, some important things that I can learn from this video is about the word 'r' and 't'. In American English, the pronunciation of letter 'r' is clear, not like British English. We can compare it with oxford dictionary. You can see the difference. Like another. In American English that word we should say it clear for the 'r', it's totally different with British without 'r' clearly.

 It's same with letter 't'. The huge difference you can see if we try to say it together. For the example, we want to say matter. In American we don't have to say with 't' but 'd' pronunciation. In British there are no changes.

This is very interesting. As English Student, I know it's important. We should pay attention to the word, and we can start to use British one because our direction is Oxford, it is based on British English, not American English.

                   
Second, I've practiced from http://www.esl-lab.com/. I listened two recordings. 

The first recording is First Date. In this conversation I got the point, the daughter asked to her father to have a date, but the father never know if her daughter has a guy. I got 80% on the score. I know it's shame, because it is an easy level. How about the medium? I chose Haven't We Met Before?. The man and the woman makes a conversation. The man thought he ever met with that woman, so he felt curious and asking the questions. Unfortunately, the woman doesn't feel interested with that man. It proves from the last conversation, she said 'perhaps' when the man asked her to come along with him. I got 80% again because one answer was incorrect.

Listening Practice II

Hello! I'm back :)

            For right now I want to share my score on the listening practice through the web : http://www.esl-lab.com/

I did the three stages : easy, medium, and hard.

              For the easy I tried listen under the title Christmas is Coming!

The medium is Baking Cookies and the hard is School Report

           I won't to explain it deeply but I just want to share the comparison between those three stages of listening section.

           The easy stage of course easy to listen and understand, the topic is not difficult too. The verb, noun, also the grammatical are not implied, we can catch it easily without spare our time to thinking about.

How about the medium and hard? It's very difficult because I just got lower scores than the easy. We should be focus and give our attention full to the speakers. We can not guess (if we get the lucky, it's okay) but if we just try to guess and no struggle to understand it, we will face the harder problem in TOEFL later. 

           I chose the baking cookies and school report because the title sounds interesting for me but it's not easy to listen it carefully. Both of them I got 40% and 60% in the answer sheets. That's very embarrassing if I remember my status here as the English Department's student.

            You know, I need more practice and try to catch the idea from the speakers.