Hi girls!!
Well, this is activity six and I learned another new thing...Podcasts! Sorry for my ignorance but I've never heard about it before! I mean, I have an mp3 player but I never downloaded podcasts.I chose http://http://www.podcastsinenglish.com/ , which is a website that offers you a lot of listening activities, according to your skill level. I found this website interesting because there isn't just the listening activity to do; you can answer questions, read the text and do vocabulary tasks related to the listening. I did the activity number 23; Asha talked about Ramadan, the most important month in the Muslim year. This listening wasn't so difficult to understand but it was a little boring because I couldn't see the face of the girl who was speaking. I think that it's easier to understand a foreign language looking to the mouth of the speaker...I know that it can be a very strange idea but it's just my personal thought!
http://http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/
In this website you can listen to the BBC news; I like it very much because there are many programmes and you can choose your favourite ones, according to your interests. For example, I listen to sport bulletin and I found it difficult to understand; the speaker spoke very fast! Usually, I prefer listening to the news watching the video; I think that I don't got lost if I watch the video...Don't you think so??!
http://http://librivox.org/
Finally, I subscribed to "Librivox Audiobooks"; here you can listen to many audiobooks and it's very funny! I've started listening to "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons", it seems interesting...Why don't you try to read it?!!
Ok, I think that these three websites can be very useful to practise English; furthermore, they are very different so that I can't bore myself! To be sincere, I'm happy because every week I'm discovering something new about the meanders of the Internet...That's good!
See you next week!!!
Elena
