Dictation - The Emperor's Clothes

This last dictation talks about the conversation about two statesmen. They talk about a bare loom. I don't understand very good the context of this dictation I just writed down what I heared. They think it has nice design and beautiful colours.

Dictation - The Owl

I had several problems with this dictation because It was going to fast and I lost some times. The dictation is about a owl and tho moles. The moles told the other creatures that the owl was the greatest and wisest of all animals because he could see in the dark and because he could answer any question.

Dictation - Prufrock

A man says he is getting older. speaks of his hair, a peach ... and the song of the mermaids. I think the dictation it makes little sense.

Dictation - 1984

A man talks about the consecuences of "open a diary". The think is that make this it was not ilegal because there were any laws, but, you can be puniched by death or stay by twenty-five years in a labour camp. That was terrible..!

Dictation - Pooh

I didn't understand everything the first and the second time. The dictation is about Pooh, Winnie The Pooh, and what he sayd to the Rabbit one morning.

Dictation - The Wolf

I had to repeat the dictation because it's very fast. Then I caught the story. It's about a little girl who goes to her grandmother's house and she sees on her grandmother's bed a wolf. She decides to kill the wolf with a pistol.

Dictation - Routine

Wow! He was a man who went to work everyday... but one day he decided to kill his boss!

Dictation - The Cementery

There is a man who works in a cementery and he likes his work he doesn't hink that there is a bad jod because he spend good time there!

Dictation - A tale of two Cities

It was the age, it was the epoch... this dictation describes one epoch with many contradictions

Dictation - The Unicorn

There is a man who saw a unicorn in the garden while he was having breakfast. He wentto tell his wife but she was asleep.

Dictation - East of Eden

A human talks about the human live, and he says that we are prisioners of our lives with the ambition and the avarice

Dication - Charlie and the chocolate factory

A children says that there are a lot men who give anything for the chance to come in and take over he. But he don't want that, he have to have a baby.
I don't really understand this dictation!

Dictation - that man

The boy who talks in this dictation, talk about a man who I don't really know if exist or not... but he says that  he met a man who wasn't in the same place (down the satair) and he wish that man would go away

Dictation - numbers

There is a bit complicated to understand! It's like a tongue twister, isn't it? In this dictation the boy who talks make operations with numbers like seven multiplied by six is fory-two.

Dictation - tears and laught

This dictation talks about tears and laught. It says that when a person in the world finish to cry, another one starts and the same thing happened with the laught

Dictation - Strange food

There is a boy who eats peas with honey. He says that he done it all his life, that it makes the peas taste funny but it keeps then on the knife

Dictation - My cat Trotsky

It's about a cat named Trotsky who likes to watch TV with his owner. The owner says that the cat eats fish or chicken and drink milk and he eats fast food and drink beer or coke.

Video of the first term

My group of the english video consist in Carmen del Val, Carolina Castillo, Aroa Ruiz, Marta Alonso and me.
The video talk about pregnancy and drugs, and tells a little story.

Tongue - twister

Writing Phonetics

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?

 /ˈtaɪni/           /teɪks/ /ˈtwenti/  /tuː/ /ænd/  /tuː/  /θɜːrds / /ɑːv /  /ə/ / ˈsekənd/ /tuː/ /taɪ/ /tuː/  /tɔːl/ / ˈtaɪɡərs /  /tuː/  /tuː/ /tɔːl/ /triːs/ 
/haʊ/  /lɔːŋ / /dʌz/                   /teɪk/ /tuː/ /taɪ/ /tuː/  /tɔːl/ / ˈtaɪɡərs /  /tuː/
 /tuː/  /tɔːl/  /triː/ ?



She sells seashells by the seashore
The shells she sells are surely seashells
So if she sells shells on the seashore,
I'm sure she sells seashore shells

 /ʃiː/  /sels/  / 'sɪ:ʃel /   /baɪ/  /ðɪ/ /'sɪ:ʃɔ:ʳ / 

/ðə/  [ʃels] /ʃiː/ /sels//ɑːr / / ˈʃʊrli / / 'sɪ:ʃel /  

 /səʊ/  /ɪf/   /ʃiː/  /sels/ [ʃels]  /ɑːn / /ðə/ /'sɪ:ʃɔ:ʳ/,

 /aɪ/  /æm/  /ʃʊr /  /ʃiː/ /sels/  /'sɪ:ʃɔ:ʳ/ /ʃels/

Listening Journal Grid

LISTENING JOURNAL GRID
U.R.L.	DATE	DURATION	TOPIC	RE-LISTEN? WHY?	CHANGED LEVEL?	CUES THAT HELPED YOU UNDERSTAND	DIFFICULTIES
							Vocabulary Word boundaries Fast input Tune out due to difficulties in vocabulary Difficult topics Many different voices Accents Others
http://www.esl-lab.com/credit/creditcardrd1.htm	20/09/2012	2 min.	Student Credit Cards	Yes. Twice, the second one to be sure I could understand	No. (Medium)	There are two voices, femenine and masculine. No background noise.	Fast input.
http://www.esl-lab.com/health/healrd1.htm	20/09/2012	01:18 min.	A Healthy lifestyle	No	No (Medium)	They speak very clear.	Some words
http://www.esl-lab.com/hiking/hikingrd1.htm	28/09/2012	01:52 min.	A Hiking Family	No	No (Medium)	Speak slowly	Vocabulary
http://www.esl-lab.com/emergencykit/emergencykitrd1.htm	29/09/2012	03:53 min.	Hour Emergency Kit	Yes, they speak very  fast and I had to listen to it again	No (Difficult)	No background noise	Vocabulary, accents
http://www.esl-lab.com/cellphone/cellphonerd1.htm	29/09/2012	01:11 min.	A Free Cell Phone!	No	No (Difficult)	They don't skpeak to fast	fast input
http://www.esl-lab.com/universitydegree/universitydegreerd1.htm	30/09/2012	02:38 min.	University Degree	Yes, to make sure I understand the topic	No (Difficult)	They don't speak to fast	Some words but it's easy to understand
http://www.esl-lab.com/expense/expenserd1.htm	30/09/2012	02:39 min.	ABCs of Money Matters	Yes, because I'm not sure I understand	No (Difficult)	Two voices, clear speak	English accent
http://www.esl-lab.com/adsense/adsenserd1.htm	01/10/2012	01:35 min.	Adsense Ads: Making Money Online	Yes, onces more	No (Difficult)	Clear speak	Fast input
http://www.esl-lab.com/cancer/cancerrd1.htm	02/10/2012	01:48 min.	Cancer Treatment	No	No(Difficult)	It's easy to understand because of the context	Difficult vocabulary
http://www.esl-lab.com/car-accident/car-accidentrd1.htm	04/10/2012	02:18 min.	Car Accident	No		They speak very clear	English accent
http://www.esl-lab.com/repairs/repairsrd1.htm	12/10/2012	02:18 min.	Car Repairs	Yes two more times, because the speak very quickly	No(Difficult)	Nothing!	English accent!
http://www.esl-lab.com/trouble/troublerd1.htm	12/10/2012	01:01 min.	Dating Woes	Yes, one more time to make sure I understand some words	No(Difficult)	The context, the ring-ring of the telephone	English accent, vocabulary
http://www.esl-lab.com/divorcelawyer/divorcelawyerrd1.htm	12/10/2012	03:07 min.	Divorce Lawyers. Are they the Solution to Bad Relationships?	Yes	Yes(Difficult)	The context	English accent
http://www.esl-lab.com/story1/story1.htm	13/10/2012	02:15 min.	A Story to Remember	No	No(Medium)	Clear speaking
http://www.esl-lab.com/dui/duird1.htm	13/10/2012	02:23 mi.	Alcoholics Anonymous	No	No(Medium)	It's very clear:)
http://www.esl-lab.com/supplies/suppliesrd1.htm	14/10/2012	01:48 min	Back to School Supplies	No	No(Medium)	Different voices	Sometimes the english accent
http://www.esl-lab.com/bakingcookies/bakingcookiesrd1.htm	15/10/2012	02: 31 min.	Backing Cookies	Yes one more time to understand some words	No(Difficult)	The context	Vocabulary

http://www.esl-lab.com/drive/driverd1.htm	16/10/2012	02:08 min.	Driving Road Test	Yes one more time	No (Difficult)	It's clear	Vocabulary, english accent
http://www.esl-lab.com/zoo/zoord1.htm	17/102012	02:24 min.	Enjoying The Zoo	No	No (Difficult)	The context help me a lot

http://www.esl-lab.com/petcare/petcarerd1.htm

18/10/2012

02:28 min.

No

No (Difficult)

http://www.esl-lab.com/flowershop/flowershoprd1.htm	22/10/2012	02:15 min.	No	No (Difficult)
http://www.esl-lab.com/bank/bankrd1.htm	23/10/2012	00:31 min.	No	No(Difficult)	It is very simple	Crear speaking	-

	http://www.esl-lab.com/dental/dentalrd1.htm	25/10/2012	01:32 min.	No	No (Difficult)	Yes because I'm not sure I understand	Context
	http://www.esl-lab.com/insurance/insurancerd1.htm	26/10/2012	01:31 min.	No	No(Difficult)	No

http://www.esl-lab.com/cm1/cm1.htm	29/10/2012	00:55 min.	No	N (Difficult)	It's very clear accent

http://www.esl-lab.com/