First tongue-twister.2011/11/20

The teacher sent one tongue-twister, and I had to write the tongue-twister in phonetic and then I had to say the tongue-twister and record myself.

November 20th

Tiny Trevor takes twenty two and two thirds of a second to tie two tall tigers to two tall trees

How long does Tiny Trevor take to tie two tall tigers to two tall trees?

Phonetic transcription:

Tɑɪnɪ: Trʌvɾ teɪks tuetɪtu: and tu: θəɾd of a secon tu taɪ tu: tɔ:l taɪgrs tu tu: tɔ:l trɪ:s

Hæu loŋ dɑs Tɑɪnɪ: Trʌvɾ teɪK tu taɪ tu: tɔ:l taɪgrs tu tu: tɔ:l trɪ:s

Second dictations.2011/11/28

In other messague my teacher sent more links to practise dictations. In the first one I had some problems with the accent, but I could finish it. In the second and the third one I had got no problem, but in the other three y had vocabulary and accent problems, especially in the last one.


Here are the links:


http://www.dictationsonline.com/english/3intermediate/6gist.html

http://www.dictationsonline.com/english/3intermediate/7gist.html

http://www.dictationsonline.com/english/3intermediate/8gist.html

http://www.dictationsonline.com/english/3intermediate/9gist.html

http://www.dictationsonline.com/english/3intermediate/10gist.html

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/fast-food-baby/ 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7Tv_mihMBA

First dictations.2011/11/15

My teacher sent two messages with links of dictations. I finished with the dictations of the first message on the fiveteenth of november and I can said that, in my opinion, the level change and turn more and more difficult. I could complete the  first five dictations, but the others were difficult, because the person speaks so fast and the accent isn't quite good.




Here are the links:


http://www.dictationsonline.com/english/2preintermediate/14gist.html

http://www.dictationsonline.com/english/2preintermediate/15gist.html

http://www.dictationsonline.com/english/2preintermediate/16gist.html

http://www.dictationsonline.com/english/3intermediate/1gist.html

http://www.dictationsonline.com/english/3intermediate/2gist.html

http://www.dictationsonline.com/english/3intermediate/3gist.html

http://www.dictationsonline.com/english/3intermediate/4gist.html

http://www.dictationsonline.com/english/3intermediate/5gist.html

Halloween.2011/10/30


My teacher sent some links with videos about Halloween. With that videos we can learn more things about Halloween, like pumpkin`s history, the tipical activities... And with the videos you can also impruve your English.




Here are the links:


http://www.history.com/topics/jack-olantern-history/videos#haunted-history-of-halloween
http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-trick-or-treat

http://www.history.com/topics/halloween/videos#halloween-primal-fear-why-we-like-to-be-scared

http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-make-fake-blood-2

http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-make-marshmallow-and-popcorn-brain-balls

Listening grid doc.2011/10/28

In this message the teacher sent a grid in which she asked about some information about the videos that we were waching.

This is the grid:

This is my grid:

ALE links. 2011/9/30

In this message our teacher sent us some links.


The links were to pages in which there were some videos, and we had to practise "the listening" with them. Some links had videos and we had to listen at them, other links had some videos and we had to listen to the video and answer to some questions or we had to make something like a quiz.

Here are the links:

http://www.jeremy-harmer.com/features/people-i-like/jan-blake :  Listen to the story teller Jan Blake telling a story. 4:51

http://www.manythings.org/b/e/tag/interestingthingsesl : Listen to stories while you read the script

http://www.esl-lab.com/videoclips.htm  :A wide range of short video clips (30-60 sec.) with related exercises

http://www.esl-lab.com : General listening quizzes graded in different levels 

http://www.learnenglishfeelgood.com/eslvideo/index.html  :Video clips from real movies with comprehension questions

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio : BBC’s international radio

http://www.thedailyshow.com  : TV news told in an interesting way

http://en.yappr.com/welcome/VideoList.action : More short video with scripts that you can hide if you want.

http://www.stonesoup.com/archive/listen : Short stories read by their young authors. You can choose listening only or listening while reading

http://www.rong-chang.com/qa2 : Short stories with exercises

http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-make-a-cup-float-in-mid-air

http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-make-a-small-illusion-magic-trick

http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-blow-out-a-candle-behind-bottles

http://www.videojug.com/film/smoke-from-fingertips

http://www.videojug.com/film/the-top-5-laziest-inventions       

http://www.saberingles.com.ar/listening/index.html : Fill in the gaps exercises. Songs.