دار قديمه
04-16-2009, 08:38 PM
What is the most important English skill? What skill must you have to communicate
.will?
Fluency is your most important English goal.
So....
You do not get fluency by going to English schools. You do not get fluency by studying
grammar rules.
Listening Is The Key
What kind of listening is best?
Well ,
I have 5 rules .
But
Evey day I'll give you one
Will start today with..
1.Practice “Narrow Listening”
“Narrow listening” means listening to many things about the same topic. This method is more powerful
than trying to listen to many different kinds of things. Students who listen to similar things learn
faster and speak better than students who listen to different kinds of things.
For example, you can choose one speaker and find many things by him. Listen to all of his podcasts,
audio books, and speeches. This is powerful because all speakers have favorite vocabulary
and grammar. They naturally repeat these many times. By listening to many things by the same
person, you automatically get a lot of vocabulary repetition. You learn faster and deeper!
Another example is to choose one topic to focus on. For example, you could read an easy book, listen
to the same audio book, listen to a podcast about the book, and watch the movie.
A.J. did this with his class in San Francisco. The class read “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”.
Then we listened to the audio book. Then we watched (and listened to) the movie. Then we listened
to interviews with actors in the movie. His students learned a lot of vocabulary in a short time,
and their speaking improved very quickly
So...tomorrow we goig have number2
:gf:
.will?
Fluency is your most important English goal.
So....
You do not get fluency by going to English schools. You do not get fluency by studying
grammar rules.
Listening Is The Key
What kind of listening is best?
Well ,
I have 5 rules .
But
Evey day I'll give you one
Will start today with..
1.Practice “Narrow Listening”
“Narrow listening” means listening to many things about the same topic. This method is more powerful
than trying to listen to many different kinds of things. Students who listen to similar things learn
faster and speak better than students who listen to different kinds of things.
For example, you can choose one speaker and find many things by him. Listen to all of his podcasts,
audio books, and speeches. This is powerful because all speakers have favorite vocabulary
and grammar. They naturally repeat these many times. By listening to many things by the same
person, you automatically get a lot of vocabulary repetition. You learn faster and deeper!
Another example is to choose one topic to focus on. For example, you could read an easy book, listen
to the same audio book, listen to a podcast about the book, and watch the movie.
A.J. did this with his class in San Francisco. The class read “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”.
Then we listened to the audio book. Then we watched (and listened to) the movie. Then we listened
to interviews with actors in the movie. His students learned a lot of vocabulary in a short time,
and their speaking improved very quickly
So...tomorrow we goig have number2
:gf: