You have been working on Shadowing, which is the stage one practise technique for intensive listening. You are getting tired of it. When can you leave it totally behind? Well, you can always stop your practise. And if you do, you will stay at that level. before you stop, you should consider the following questions: [...]
Doing English listening practise takes a lot of work and discipline, but if you practise with poor materials, then a lot of that time is wasted. Perhaps money too. Who wouldn’t ask the question, “Where can I find Good materials for Listening practise?” But, this question is really difficult to answer. That’s because you have [...]
A question that should come up but often doesn’t is how often to practise listening. Many students have bad habits from high school or university days. They used to play, play, play, and then study hard for a long intense period. This is the worst way to study. I once heard that you could shut [...]
In our first article we discussed what materials we need to do listening practise. We briefly mentioned two kinds of listening practise: intensive and extensive. We can find the stages of listening practise in intensive listening. Because listening practise has more stages than most people think, we can do some unusual things in our listening [...]
If you are reading this article, you probably already have the main tool you need to practise listening: a computer. With a connection to the internet, you can access and download f sound files for listening practise. The typical sound file is in MP3 format. This gives good sound quality, and smaller file sizes (fast [...]
When I teach here in Smith’s School of English in Ikoma, I really try to encourage my students to have a clear goal. That’s why I write things like the entries about the Winner’s Bible. If you make your own winner’s bible, you are essentially making your own goals into pictures and reviewing those pictures [...]
Sometimes when I teach English here at Smith School of English in Ikoma, students ask if there is a special way to be polite in English, like there is in Japanese. I used to have trouble answering them. I started to mention ‘would’ or ‘could’ but they say those are not only for politeness. And [...]
My winners bible is coming along nicely. I look at it for a few minutes almost everyday (usually in ‘dead time’ when I can’t use the computer, and the kids are asleep). I can say that it is making me feel better, and perhaps helping me no only by motivation, but by keeping me on [...]
I love to teach using the Smith’s School of English here at my Smith’s school in Ikoma. It develops beautifully, hits the real English that students need, and is designed to be easy to implement. And sometimes, near the end of the lesson, we have a few moments for some relaxed conversation after we have [...]
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