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| Contentid | 4638 |
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| Title | English News Listening & Reading Activity |
| Body | Here is a flexible, step-by-step, news-based lesson for intermediate to advanced learners of English who want to practice on their own. This kind of activity could be particularly useful for distance education students. ---- These are the instructions I send to my students on how to use the VOA special English podcasts: 3-2-1 Special English Approach Here is a great way to learn English that is very interesting. I call it the 3-2-1 approach. THREE Visit www.unsv.com. There are thousands of interesting stories there on all kinds of subjects. You can choose something that interests you. All of the stories are in "special English" which is a little slower and simpler English that is much easier to understand. Find a story there. DO NOT READ THE STORY! Listen to the MP3 THREE times until you think you have a pretty good idea of what the story is about. TWO Read the story TWO times. Read it while listening to the MP3 and try to understand it. Do not use a dictionary. Guess the words you don't know. After you think you have a better understanding of the story then read it again and use a dictionary to see if your guesses about the words you did not know were correct. ONE Talk about the story in at least ONE practice session with someone. Choose some new words you have learned and make sentences with them. Call your teacher to practice using these new words plus talk about the story you chose. What did you learn? Is China also like that? Do you agree with the story? Why? Kees, D. Re: How do you use VOA's Special English with your students? THREE-TWO-ONE! [b]. Teachers of English to speakers of other languages electronic list. TESL-L@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (27 May 2006). |
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| Inputdate | 2006-06-02 17:02:00 |
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