## Listening skills

#### Instructions

You will do at least two different listening assignments. Your assignments should all be different audio/video types; check the list below.

For each assignment, you will need to:

1. summarise the story (if fictional) or main items (if non-fictional) of the audio/video you listened to;
2. make a mini-dictionary of at least twenty words and phrases you have heard in your listening (this may mean you will need to listen to it more than once) --> you can later add these words to your vocabulary list.
3. evaluate how listening to this particular audio/video fragment could improve your English;
4. collect your work for steps 1-3 in one document (Pages / Keynote / paper) and add it to your tile in Egodact.

#### Audio/video types

- TV series (episode min. 30 minutes);
- film;
- news broadcast;
- talkshow;
- announcements
- radio interview;
- podcast;
- speech / lecture.

#### Wasp Reporter

You can ask your English coach for a copy of the Wasp Reporter, a magazine used in HVX High for English. In this magazine you can find different sorts of articles and assignments; choose to do one with a listening focus (your coach can explain more about how WR works)

#### Online Materials

You can also find good listening material on the following websites:

- British Council LearnEnglish Teens
- British Council LearnEnglish
- BBC News
- CNN 10
- TED Talks