Listening Skills: How To Learn A Language (More or Less 19/01/18)
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05vgzm0
The item starts at 19:20.
Vocabulary
keen (to be keen to do something, to be keen on someone/something)
an uphill struggle/battle
to put someone through their paces
on the back of someone/something
to build up
to hit a wall
to bluff your way through
to get by
to give something a bash
to take the Mickey out of someone
Homework
(1) Listening: finish the exercises on the worksheet
Listening 4 (26:20 to end)
What does Randall Munroe’s book Up Goer 5 tell us about English? To see the comic go to:
https://xkcd.com/1133/
Listening 5
Look at the numbers in the prediction exercise - what did they refer to in the podcast? Listen again and check.
Reflection
What implications does this podcast have for your own language learning?
(2) Find out what the 800 most useful English words are. Start off by reading about the Oxford English Corpus here:
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/explore/what-can-corpus-tell-us-about-language
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