Listening portfolio entry8 (Radio)

Source: Freezing cream
http://www.radionz.co.nz/audio
Strategies:
A. Listen to the stress words
B. taking notes
C. repeat as many times as I need
Evaluation:

1.This interview is about why you can't whip cream after you've frozen it and how you can do at home to solve the problem. The speakers talk very clearly and I can get the stress words easily. With the help of these words, I got the main idea after I listened to it for four times.

2.Writing notes is very useful to listen to a radio. Because there is no subtitle when they are speaking, If I do not write anything down, I only can remember a little information. In this way ,I can get some information every time. Finally, I am able to use these useful words to understand the speaking.

3. Although I could get the main idea, I still have some words or some sentences which I cannot understand. The strategy c can help me to solve this problem. In this way I can repeat the sentence until I understand it.

Reflection:
A is a good way for me to listen to a radio. It helps me get the main idea easily. However, sometimes I need more details .B is better way to get more details. Also,
B can remind me what I have listened .C can enable me to learn new vocabulary and find missing words. After listening, I can check these words in the dictionary. Therefore, I think only I use A,B and C together ,I can improve my listening .

Listening portfolio entry 7(TV programme)

Source: The big bang theory 3--2
Strategies:
A. Listen to the key words
B. Listening and reading English subtitles at the same time
C. Guess the meaning of the sentence
Evaluation:
1.It is useful. Sometimes the actors speak very fast. It is impossible to listen to every words. Therefore, listening the keys words can help me a lot to understand the whole sentence. However, in some sentence, I do not know the meaning of the key words and I will not understand. At that time, I paused the TV programme and checked the words in the dictionary.
2.This listening strategy is very helpful for me. I can expand my vocabulary and hear the flow of speech from the actors. In addition, I become very confidence in learning English in this way because I can nearly understand everything. It can encourage me to keep going on my study.
3.The strategy C can use together with the strategy B .It helps me when I have some long sentence with new vocabulary. It can improve my comprehension.  

Reflection:

Watching a TV programme is not only a fun way to learn but it is also very effective. I think the strategy B is better way to watch a TV programme.I like this strategy and I will use it next time. For strategy A and C, both of them are useful. However, I think it is more helpful to use them with B together.

listening portfolio entry 6(song)

Source: You Belong With Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuNIsY6JdUw

Strategies:

1.write down the keywords  
2. Use the lyric

Evaluation:

1.      After 3 times, in this way, I can write down a lots of key words and most of the sentences .It is a nice sing. It is a great way to listen to a song because it is hard to write everything down. I noted down the key words first time, and then added more words second time. In the last time, I checked all the key words. I almost got the whole song.

2.      By using the lyric, I could follow the song and check my listening. Also, I can check the sentences that I am not sure. By the way, I could sing the song following the lyrics.

Reflection:

1.      When I listen to the song, I think it is more harder than listen to video or something. Singing is faster than speaking. Therefore, writing the key words is a good choice. In this way, I could understand the song more easily. Also, it is available for me to write down the key words.

2.      I can check anything I am not sure. In addition, I am able to find the difficult parts in my listening and learn some new vocabulary.

listening portfolio entry 5(cartoon)

Source: Simpsons no Brazil

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=invBjPmY8iE

Strategies:

1.   listen for the stressed words in sentence

2.   try to get the main ideas

Evaluation:

1.      It is very useful way to listen for the stressed words. These words can help me to understand the whole sentence in most of time. In this cartoon, the speaker did not use too much advanced vocabulary, so it is easy for me to get the words. However, I cannot get some words because of their accent.

2.      After listening for two times, I could get the main idea .However, I cannot understand some sentences when they speak slangs.

Reflection:

1.      For this cartoon, listening for the stressed words is a good way. I will use this strategy next time. The stressed words are always meaningful, so it helps me to understand their speaking easily. Moreover, these words are expressed clearly so that I can get these words easily.

2.      This cartoon is about a story. It is very important to get the topic and it can let me predict something when I am watching this video. This cartoon is very interesting and I enjoy listening to it. I think I should to find more cartoon to do the listening practices.

Title: listening portfolio entry 4(Movie)

Source: Prince of Persia The Sands of Time

Strategies:

1.      using the subtitle

2.      Associate with image

Evaluation:

1.      It helps me a lot by using the subtitle to understand the movie .When I watch this movie, I can check the words or some sentences if I am not sure. In addition, I can get some new words easily and check them in the dictionary .

2.      In this way, I can predict what they will talk about. Obviously, it is better than just listening .By watching the image, I am able to guess what they are speaking which can helps listening .Also, you will not feel boring when you do the listening practice by watching film.

Reflection:

1. I think it is a good way for me to do the general listening practice .I can use the subtitle to help my listening. Also, I can learn some new words. Therefore, I decide to use this strategy when I watch the movie. However, I feel it takes too much time to watch the whole movie and I cannot always concentrate on it. Maybe next time I just watch the part of movie.

2. It does help in my listening because I can guess what will happen in the movie and predict their speaking, but I might miss the listening when I indulge the movie plot.