Aliona's listening...

Hello everyone!

Today I decided to practise my listening with ESL video. So, when I opened it the first video on the screen was called "Someone like you". It is a song of one of my favourite singers Adele. That's why without any hesitation I started to watch it. It is really a nice song where Adele tells us how to rise from the ashes of a broken love. After my listening I did some tests and I got 96%. And now you can also watch this video clip with me, because I am going to enjoy it once again right now!!

Then I went to ESL Lab to listen to the audio track named "Professional Babysitting" from difficult level. It was a conversation between a man and a girl - a Professional Babysitting as she told. Mr. Adams was impressed when Kelly gave her own business card. Also according to the girl's financial consultant (her mom), she should charge more for babysitting because she does some housework while the parents are out. And finally now she is a certified babysitter with training in CPR (Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: a medical procedure used to restart the heart and breathing again in emergency situations). Then I did some tests and got 80%.

And of course I did some exercises from Business English Vocabulary.

Grammar Revision

Hello, dear students!
Let's review First /  Second / Third / Zero Conditionals.
Follow this link and you will find a lot of useful information there.

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/conditional-sentences

Good luck,
Yelena Valerianovna

Quotation of the day

Hello, dear students!

Here is a quote about meetings:

"A meeting is an event where minutes are taken and hours wasted.”

                                                                                                              James T. Kirk

Would you comment on it, please?

 

Yelena Valerianovna

Aliona`s listening today

Hello, everyone!

Today is the 1st of April, everybody tries to have fun, so I decided to listen something connected with it. So, the tape I`ve listened to was from the site "Listen a Minute" named just "FUN". It`s about the man, who tries to have fun everywhere and he remembers what a funny life he had before. It was interesting to hear in every sentense a word "fun" and it sounded really amusingly! I understood, that we need to have fun just now, because when we start working, there won`t be enough time for entertainment. So I decided not to waste my time and went to pin on my friends (after doing all the tests under the tape, of course). It was FUN!

Then I`ve done a lot of tests from Business English Vocabulary, because I really liked this site, and it`s really useful!

Thanks!

Aliona Kovalinska.

                                                   Alina's latest listening
Hello everyone!
           Today I chose a video from ESL. It is called "How to remember what you read". There are some really   good pieces of advice for people who can not remember information. According to this video it is a good idea  to categorize information while reading. Also the first thing you need when reading is techniques. You can recall what you read if you decide it matters enough if you remember.It is important to take notes and say words out loud  and try to highlight only important key words. I think these pieces of advice can help you to train your memory!
After watching a video I did a test and got 78%.
                  Then I listened to audio track from Listen a minute. It is called "Quality of life". This text is about something we try to improve - it is our quality of life. The biggest things that affect how happy you are: friends, job, holidays and etc. Of course it is quite difficult to change these things but we should always remember that quality of life  is important to all of us. After this listening I did some tasks.

1.04 Dasha's listening =)

   I've just listened to the audio track named "Wedding Anniversary". It was a conversation between a husband and his wife. He tried to congratulate her on the wedding anniversary, but it was late... Indeed, it had been a week before!
   To correct his mistake he agreed to do everything she wanted! Using the opportunity, a wise wife said that she wanted a trip to Europe! Moreover she wanted to fly first class and stay at 5-star hotels!
   The second thing she wanted was a new kitchen stove because the old one had taken its last breath weeks before.
   Then she asked for a new wardrobe and said that she was not going to wear his grandmother's old secondhand pants again.
   The man was confused and he had nothing else to say than: "Wow. I'd better ask the boss for a huge raise."


   I've also just watched a video "Learning English" by Randall.
   According to him students often feel like their learning has come to a dead end, and there are several things that students can do to improve their learning.
  At first, students might need private instruction a couple of times a week.  Randall's second point focuses on organizing your study routine. In other words, you have to have some type of plan. And the last thing is that getting out into the community can help students use the knowledge they have learned.
   Learning is really tough; it takes a lot of work, and you have to decide if you're going to break the ceiling of English. In other words, go beyond where you already are, and that takes a new strategy often for many students.

Natasha's listening

Hello, friends!

Today I decided to go to 'Listen a Minute' to practice my listening skills. I chose the extract under the title "Family", which is dedicated to the problems of modern family life. After having listened to the track, I tried to go to 'Quizes'. As for Quize 1, it was very easy and I passed it with 100% of right answers. Quize 2 took a lot of my time, but it was really very interesting! I had to try to guess all the words from the track "Family". I must say that was a great chance to train my memory! I liked doing that very much.

Then, as usual, I went to ESLvideo.com, because, frankly speaking, it has already become my favourite source. I chose a video under the title "Easter around the world" from Intermediate, because Easter is coming.

The episode was about Easter celebration in different countries of the world. I found a lot of new facts connected with this great holiday. For example, in Germany they burn the Christmas trees on Easter. Could you imagine that? Americans can't imagine Easter holiday without their traditional Easter chocolate bunnies. So, practically every country has its own special traditions of celebrating this holiday...
After watching the video I tried myself in answering questions and got 75%. To be frank, questions were rather difficult, because every small detail was important.  But in general I liked my today's listening.