Assignment ten

1.  Write a list of listening skills that you learned about from each of the units that we studied.  Find them on - page 9, page 35, page 58, page 82, page 107.

Identifying main ideas, making inferences, listening to examples, recognizing appositives that explain, and organizing notes with a T-chart.


2.  Which listening skill (mentioned above) did you find the most valuable?  Why?

Although I think that different listening skill is suitable for different 
kind of article,for instance, organizing notes with a T-chart is the best listening skill for the article that certain problems 
and answers are included.
The most valuable listening skill for me is identifying main ideas,
because it is suitable for all kind of article, it's the basic of other
listening skills.
3.  What are some ways in which your listening in English has improved this semester?

Probably realizing accent India because we spent a lot of time discussing
this tragic story, and I think that it was a new experience.

Besides,I think teacher introduced different listening skills to us and we have to practice till we are proficient in.  

4.  What are some challenges that you still face in your English listening?  How do you plan to overcome these challenges?

Once I was not focus on what I were listening for just few minutes,
I would miss the rest of the content. And it was so hard for me to 
catch up a story that I couldn't understand from the beginning of it.
The solution to these two problems is practice, practice, and practice,
and I am still working on it.

5.  Based on your experience with listening to many different types of activities in English this semester (listening to radio reports, radio interviews, TED talks, the audio book, a song, etc.), what is the most efficient way that you can train yourself to improve your English listening on your own?  Explain your answer.

I think it was TED's talk, because it was difficult for me to understand proper nouns 
and if it was repeated in the speech over and over again or there are more 
proper nouns used in the speech, it would make me refuse to 
listen to the rest of it. I overcame it and found out the speeches were good.
The variety of different topics make TED's talks interesting and 
those speeches are meaningful and I can learn something from it.
For example, I learned "Fake it and became it!" from the TED's talk
that I shared to class.