ESL 2006-2007
Spoken English Practice Resources, continued:
Qualitative Listening Practice
Here is a resource for Form 6 students who want to drive their own development with regard to English language communicative skills. You do it, you grow. You don't do it, you miss out, again !
The link described here, which comes from the largest, most resourceful library in the world, provides more than 400 free English language webcasts of monologues, dialogues, conversations, interviews, reviews, critiques and other formats, involving ordinary people and some famous people, covering a fairly wide range of timely, relevant topics, and, as such, it provides a useful audio database of listening practice resources for the second language learner who aspires to engage in tertiary level study at an institution where English is the medium of instruction.
You can listen to any one or more of these webcasts as often as you want, whenever you want.
You may find transcripts for some of these Webcasts, if you search hard enough.
I hope you explore this resource. It is commercial free. Hopefully, among the 418 topics, there will be some that interest you.
You may not comprehend as much as you would have liked upon your first listen, but you can listen again, closely, as often as you like.
You can practice repeating some of the sentences. You can listen with your friends and then discuss the topic afterwards, among yourselves, in English, to practice your speaking skills, using new information.
It's a no-brainer...the more you listen closely to good spoken English, the stronger your listening comprehension skills will become. CSI on TV is not good spoken English. It is not HKAL. Four hours a month spent watching and listening to that program is yet another four hours a month of forever lost qualitative listening time between now and your HKALEs.
The link again, is:
www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/results.php?cat=1&mode=a
Try saving it and using it on a regular basis. Work smart, work hard...have fun...
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