06.05 Natasha's listening

Hello, everyone!

     It has become a tradition really that I go to ESLvideo.com to practice my listening skills. Today I went to Intermediate and found there a video episode under the title "13 Things to Do in New York City". As far as I understood from the episode the author of that video is travelling around the world and makes the list of some things to do in each of them. Not a bad idea, I would say! 

So, the narrator proposes us to visit some places of interest in NY, such as Central Park, Brooklyn Bridge, Coney Island, Square Garden etc. To my mind the places, which were mentioned by the narrator are really worth seeing. 

The video was great and not difficult for understanding, and I got 80% of correct answers in test after it. 

Then I decided to go to www.palgrave.com, Reading skills and chose there chapter 21 under the title "Making Up Your Own Mind". That Episode was about how to understand the context while reading. The narrator proposes to find out some information about author's life and his social and political position just to understand better what he wanted to say with these or those words. The other advice was to try to challenge the author for discussion in your mind. That really works when you disagree with the author's point of view but before starting arguing try to understand what made the author think so. To be frank that is not the full list of advice proposed by the narrator. I'm not going to name all those proposals to give you a chance to listen to them yourself  at www.palgrave.com.

As for me I found those pieces of advice rather useful, because it's always important to think about what you're reading. 

Thank you for attention. Have a nice listening!

by Nataliya Hlushachenko