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News
Video Listening Diary
- It is impossible
to learn a foreign language in only a few classes a week.
- You must listen
to English actively and use it as much as possible.
- One way to improve
your English is through listening on your own.
- Developing listening
skills takes a lot of time, so you will have to listen to the same
story many times to understand all of the important English.
1.
Listening Homework:
- Your listening
homework will be a news video listening diary this year.
2.
Each week:
- Listen to one
bilingual news story (one story, not a whole news program).
- Use the News
Video Diary Note-taking Form I give you to write down information
about the video.
- Choose only a
short news story and listen to it over and over until you understand
it well.
3.
If
it's a topic you are familiar with or the particular news story is familiar:
- Guess and write
down English words you think you might hear.
- Listen in English
and then write down any words you don't know.
- Repeat until
you understand all the important words.
4.
For
more difficult or less familiar stories:
- Choose a news
story of interest to you.
- Listen first
in Japanese to get an understanding of the overall meaning of the
story.
- Write down Japanese
words whose English meanings you want to learn.
- Listen in English.
- Find the English
meaning of the words you wrote down in Japanese.
- Also write down
any English words you hear, but are not sure of the meaning of.
- Repeat.
5.
Listening Notebook:
- Inside the front
page of a new notebook, glue the News Video Diary Note-taking Forms
I give you.
6.
Write:
- a short summary
of the news story;
- anything you
found difficult in the news story or questions you have about the
story.
- 10 new words
from your news story in your vocabulary book.
- You may give
me your news video listening diary by e-mail as well.
7.
In-class avtivity:
- Each week you
will talk about the news story you listened to with other members
in class.
8.
Finding Listening Material
- Video tape the
news yourself if you have a bilingual video deck.
- Each Saturday,
I will put four video tapes with bilingual news broadcasts (NHK, BBC,
CNN, JNN) in the library. You may listen to them there.
- Go to this
site on the Internet and use the listening exercises there
to practice.
Marking:
Your video listening will be 10% of your mark.
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