Dictation

"The first error , and the worst, lay at her door. It was foolish, it was wrong, to take so active a part in bringing any two people together. It was adventuring too far, asuming too much, make(making)light of what (ought)to be serious- a trick of what (ought)to be simple. She was quite concerned and ashamed , and result(resolved) to do such things no more."   

Correction:

The first error, and the worst, lay at her door. It was foolish, it was wrong, to take so active a part in bringing any two people together. It was adventuring too far, assuming too much, making light of what ought to be serious-a trick of what ought to be simple. She was quite concerned and ashamed, and resolved to do such things no more.

http://www.dictationsonline.com/english/3intermediate/12gist.html                            

Dictation.

"Roger gaved her a hand-full of stones and began to throw them. Yet there was a space round henry, perhaps six yards in diametre, into which he did not throw. Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life. Round the squatting child was the protection of parents and school and the policemen and the law."

Correction:

Roger gathered a handful of stones and began to throw them. Yet there was a space round Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter, into which he dare not throw. Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life. Round the squatting child was the protection of parents and school and policemen and the law.

http://www.dictationsonline.com/english/3intermediate/11gist.html

Dictation

"A wave of hot love went over her to the infant. She held it closed to her face and breast. With all her force, with all her soul she will make up to it for having brought it into the world than loved. She will love it all her more now it was here; carried in her loved. Its clear, knowing eyes gave her pain and fear. Did it know all about her? "

Correction:

A wave of hot love went over her to the infant. She held it close to her face and breast. With all her force, with all her soul she would make up to it for having brought it into the world unloved. She would love it all the more now it was here; carry it in her love. Its clear, knowing eyes gave her pain and fear. Did it know all about her?

http://www.dictationsonline.com/english/3intermediate/10gist.html

Dictation.

" The english landscape that is finest- such as i saw this morning- posesses a cuality of the landscapes of other nations, however more superficially dramatic, inedebly fail to posess. It is ,I believe, a cuality that will mark out the English landscape to any objective observer as the most deeply satisfying in the world   and this cuality is probably best sum up by the term greatness "

correction:

The English landscape at its finest - such as I saw this morning-possesses a quality that the landscapes of other nations, however more superficially dramatic, inevitably fail to possess. It is, I believe, a quality that will mark out the English landscape to any objective observer as the most deeply satisfying in the world, and this quality is probably best summed up by the term 'greatness.'

http://www.dictationsonline.com/english/3intermediate/9gist.html

Last Christmas

HAPPY CHRISTMAS!!

Dictation.

This is the hardest dictation I've ever made. I have understood only a few words, I haave to listened like three or four times and even then I haven't understand the meaning of all the words...
I haven't uderstood these words : 
-vigorous -archbishop -plump -lined -wrinkled -wariness -trade -poker hand 
After litening the dictation four times I finally could understand the most of the dictation, but I think is very difficult.
http://www.dictationsonline.com/english/3intermediate/8gist.html

Chinese Christmas.

Dictation.

The dictation is about a trick with numbers. You are supposed to think of a number , and then the other person have to guess it. The result is going to be the same number you have thought of. 
I like this dictation , and I think is the easier I've done this week. I've got a few mistakes. One of these mistakes is the spelling of the word "thought" , because I haven't written the letter "t" at the end of the word. The other mistake has been the word "any" , because I haven't heard properly the pronunciation , so I haven't known what word was.
http://www.dictationsonline.com/english/3intermediate/7gist.html

Dictation.

This is a traditional fairy tale about an Emperor who wanted the best suit ever. The statemen told him that he looked really good , but the fact was that the Emperor was wearing nothing. People around him didn't see the clothes he was wearing but they thought that everybody except them could see the clothes the Emperor was supposed to wear , so they comment how beautiful colors the clothes had, etc.
http://www.dictationsonline.com/english/3intermediate/6gist.html

Dictation.

There was an owl in the dark. He said "who" and then "you two" , and some moles that were under the ground were very surprised because they thought that the owl could see them even under the ground. Obviously , the owl didn't see them, and it was only the noise that owls make.
http://www.dictationsonline.com/english/3intermediate/5gist.html

Dictation.

This is a really extrange dictation. What I've understood is that the man is saying something about his trousers and about he eats peaches. He also mentions the beach and mermaids singing, but he thinks that they aren't singing to him. 
http://www.dictationsonline.com/english/3intermediate/4gist.html

Better speaking

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/webcast/mp3/betterspeaking/tae_betterspeaking_12_080424.mp3 : Link to the listening page

The white wolf.

Babysitter's horror story (2)

Comic.

TO BE CONTINUED...

Where's my liver? Horror story for my English Extension class.

Dictation

http://www.dictationsonline.com/english/3intermediate/3gist.html
The locutor is talking about a diary. He sais that open a diary is not illegal , but if they consider that it is , the person who has opened it could be punish even with death.
For me , is one of the most dificult dictations I've done because of the vocabulary used and because the first time I listened to it I couldn't understand too much.

Dictation.

http://www.dictationsonline.com/english/3intermediate/2gist.html
It's a little story about Winnie the Pooh and Rabbit. Pooh liked eating a snack at more or less eleven in the morning. Rabbit asked him what he prefered , if he wanted milk or honey. Winnie asked that he wanted both.
Is a story for children so it's not quite dificult to understand the words and the meaning.

Dictation.

http://www.dictationsonline.com/english/3intermediate/1gist.html

A girl went to her grandma house , and when she entered in , she saw her grandmother sleepling in her bed . She went there and then she saw that she wasn't her granny , it was a wolf! So she took a gun she had in her basket and shot the wolf. 

Dictation.

http://www.dictationsonline.com/english/2preintermediate/16gist.html
He is talking about a man's routine : for the last 2 years he has got up at 10 past 7, he has gone out home at 10 to 8 , he has arrived  at work 8.27 , he has been kind with his boss ... But today is a different day , today he's going to murder his boss.

Dictation.

http://www.dictationsonline.com/english/2preintermediate/14gist.html

The man who is spoken works in a cemetery. He thinks that his job is not scary at all , he says that is a great job because they often bring food there and have a little party in the cemetery , specially at Halloween. He also says that he hasn't seen any real ghost yet. 

Dictation.

http://www.dictationsonline.com/english/2preintermediate/10gist.html

 This is a poetic text, in which the author is comparing some times he has lived, for example he sais "it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope , it was the winter of despair ". He is associating some emotions like hope, wisdom, belief, with times,ages,epoches, seasons.

Dictation.

http://www.dictationsonline.com/english/2preintermediate/9text.html
A man was eating breakfast when he saw a unicorn in the garden. He went to the bedroom and woke up  his wife tot ell her what had just seen in the garden. 
Is the longer one that I've done at the time , is quite difficult because of the lenth , but the spelling is very good.

Dictation.

http://www.dictationsonline.com/english/2preintermediate/8gist.html

The man thinks that there's only one story in the world. He thinks that we are trapped in the goodness or in the evil. I think it's a difficult dictation , because of the specific words he uses. 

Halloween is coming...

Next thursday , the 31st of October , is Halloween night.
So here you have , a terrorific, thrilling , frigtening story......

ENJOY IT!

Dictation.

http://www.dictationsonline.com/english/2preintermediate/7gist.html
The dictation is a paragraph taken from "Charlie and the chocolate factory" where a boy sais that donesn't want to be a an adult , he doesn't want to grow up. 
The dificulty is bigger than last week dictations. 

Dictation

http://www.dictationsonline.com/english/2preintermediate/6gist.html
He's talking about a man who was downstairs last day , but today when he looked again , the man wasn't there. 

Dictation

http://www.dictationsonline.com/english/2preintermediate/5gist.html

A dictation about numbers like : 60 divided by 4 is 60 , 6 over 2 is three , 7 multiplied by 6 is 42 , etc. 
Is a bit more dificults than the others , but is still easy.

Dictation .

http://www.dictationsonline.com/english/2preintermediate/3gist.html

Today's dictation is a bit difficult than the other two. 
It sais , that for each person who is crying at this moment in the world , there 's another one who is stopping , and that is the same for the laugh. 

Dictation.

http://www.dictationsonline.com/english/2preintermediate/2gist.html

Plot : The man eats peas with honey , he've done all his life , and he thinks that the honey makes it funny. 
A really easy dictation .

Dictation.

http://www.dictationsonline.com/english/2preintermediate/1gist.html

The dictation is about the man's cat,Trosky, who sits in front of the tv every night and watch tv with him. In my opinion is an extremely easy dictation , and I dind't find any dificult on it 

Answering machine.

Listening grid.

I forgot to do the listening grid two days in this week , so today , sunday , I've done two listening grids.

LISTENING JOURNAL GRID
U.R.L.	DATE	DURATION	TOPIC	RE-LISTEN? WHY?	CHANGED LEVEL?	CUES THAT HELPED YOU UNDERSTAND	DIFFICULTIES
http://www.esl-lab.com/flea/fleard1.htm	20/10/13	01:30	Two men arguing the price of a cd (one is the seller and the other one is the buyer) about the things sold at the market	yes	no	re-listening it	no

Listening grid.

LISTENING JOURNAL GRID
U.R.L.	DATE	DURATION	TOPIC	RE-LISTEN? WHY?	CHANGED LEVEL?	CUES THAT HELPED YOU UNDERSTAND	DIFFICULTIES
http://www.esl-lab.com/runningshoes/runningshoesrd1.htm	20/10/13	01:51	A man is talking to a shopping assistant to buy new trainers , because he  told his girlfriend he was a really goood runner but is a couch potato.	no	no	the questions the woman ask to the man	no

Listening grid.

LISTENING JOURNAL GRID
U.R.L.	DATE	DURATION	TOPIC	RE-LISTEN? WHY?	CHANGED LEVEL?	CUES THAT HELPED YOU UNDERSTAND	DIFFICULTIES
http://www.esl-lab.com/supermarket/supermarketrd1.htm	19/10/13	02:10min	A father talking with her daughter about the things he has shopped and why he  has bought them.	yes	no	a re-listen	they speak quite fast

Listening grid

LISTENING JOURNAL GRID
U.R.L.	DATE	DURATION	TOPIC	RE-LISTEN? WHY?	CHANGED LEVEL?	CUES THAT HELPED YOU UNDERSTAND	DIFFICULTIES
http://www.esl-lab.com/collegemajor/collegemajorrd1.htm	15/10/13	02:10	Two people talking about what the girls is ging to do in the future , and about university.	no	no		not very dificult

Listening grid.

LISTENING JOURNAL GRID
U.R.L.	DATE	DURATION	TOPIC	RE-LISTEN? WHY?	CHANGED LEVEL?	CUES THAT HELPED YOU UNDERSTAND	DIFFICULTIES
http://www.esl-lab.com/story1/story1.htm	14/10/13	02:15 min	A man is telling the police that he has seen a non-identificated- object last night. The policeman doesn't believe him.	no	no	Words related to the topic: ufo , ovni , night , estranger , road , car	the conversation is by the phone.

Voki

Listening grid.

LISTENING JOURNAL GRID
U.R.L.	DATE	DURATION	TOPIC	RE-LISTEN? WHY?	CHANGED LEVEL?	CUES THAT HELPED YOU UNDERSTAND	DIFFICULTIES
http://www.esl-lab.com/week/weekrd1.htm	13/10/13	02:10 min	A girl is asking her dad when can she go to the cinema during the week because she has to do lots of things each day.	no	no	the days of the week (Monday , Tuesday...)	none

Listening grid.

LISTENING JOURNAL GRID
U.R.L.	DATE	DURATION	TOPIC	RE-LISTEN? WHY?	CHANGED LEVEL?	CUES THAT HELPED YOU UNDERSTAND	DIFFICULTIES
http://www.esl-lab.com/parenting/parentingrd1.htm	10/10/13	01:13 min	A girl is telling her dad the "good" and the bad news (she's been fired , she's had an accident with her father's car...)	yes , because I didn't understand properly the girl	no	none	The girl speaks quite fast

Listening grid.

LISTENING JOURNAL GRID
U.R.L.	DATE	DURATION	TOPIC	RE-LISTEN? WHY?	CHANGED LEVEL?	CUES THAT HELPED YOU UNDERSTAND	DIFFICULTIES
http://www.esl-lab.com/call/911rd1.htm	09/10/13	01:08	A taxi driver is calling the 911 because the woman in his taxi is having a baby .	yes , because of the voices	no		the distorsion of the man voice

Listening grid.

LISTENING JOURNAL GRID
U.R.L.	DATE	DURATION	TOPIC	RE-LISTEN? WHY?	CHANGED LEVEL?	CUES THAT HELPED YOU UNDERSTAND	DIFFICULTIES
http://www.esl-lab.com/breakfastrecipes/breakfastrecipesrd1.htm	8/10/13	01:44 min	A father is talking with his daughter about what can she eat for breakfast beacause , of course , he won't make it fo her (she's 19)	no	no		The man's voice sounds like he was asleep.

Listening grid.

LISTENING JOURNAL GRID
U.R.L.	DATE	DURATION	TOPIC	RE-LISTEN? WHY?	CHANGED LEVEL?	CUES THAT HELPED YOU UNDERSTAND	DIFFICULTIES
http://www.esl-lab.com/zoo/zoord1.htm	7/10/13	02:24	A father was talking with his little son about what had they seen at the zoo that afternoon.	yes , I had to listened twice to understand all.	No , I tried to listen this exercise because was harder than the other ones I did days before.	What the father was saying .	The kid's voice and pronunciation; was too dificult to understand him.