Class
- Using DVDs for practicing listening, see: http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/11442630/Film%20Lessons
A Quick Exercise to Try at Home
Choose a film you know and have already seen. Choose a five minute scene which has some dialogue.
- Watch it first without subtitles – what can you understand? Is there anything you don’t understand?
- Watch it again with the subtitles. Was the problem due to vocabulary or fast connected speech? If you find a new word, look it up in your dictionary. If the problem was fast connected speech, listen to the phrase again and repeat it.
- Now watch the scene again, this time without subtitles and see how much more you understand.
This exercise takes only 15 to 30 minutes and is a really useful way of developing your listening skills and improving your vocabulary.
If the film does not have subtitles available in English, you can always look at the script to check your understanding. You can find film scripts to most films on the following sites: The Internet Movie Script Database (IMSDb) http://www.imsdb.com or Drew's Script-O-Rama http://www.script-o-rama.com
- Personality Adjectives
New Language Leader Intermediate p. 6
Pronunciation
Check the pronunciation of ed suffixes - /d/, /t/ or /Id/?
e.g. warm hearted /Id/, organised /d/, strong willed /d/.
Check the vowel sounds of stressed syllables
e.g. warm hearted, assertive, reliable.
Check consonant sounds
e.g. sociable
- Flick through your new textbook and decide which units are the most interesting and/or useful for you.
- Reading introverts/extroverts p. 7. Read the text and answer questions 6a, 6b, 7a and 7b.
Corrections
Verb Structure ask
False Friends sensitive, sensible
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