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.

Tongue twister.

 /ˈtaɪnɪ  trevor teiks ˈtwentɪ tuː ænd tu: θ3ːds ɒv a ˈsekənd tʊ taɪ tu: tɔːl ˈtaɪgəʳs tʊ tu: tɔːl triːs/

            /haʊ lɒŋ dʌz ˈtaɪnɪ trevor teik tʊ taɪ tuː tɔːl ˈtaɪgəʳs tʊ tu: tɔːl triːs/

 /ʃiː sels ˈsiːʃels baɪ ðə siː ʃɔː^r/
   ðə  ʃels  ʃi: sels ɑː^r ˈʃʊəlɪ ˈsiːʃels səʊ ɪf ʃi: sels  ˈsiːʃels ɒn ðə  siː ʃɔː^r/  
 /aɪm ʃʊə^r ʃiː sels siː ʃɔː^r ʃels/ 

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/trip1/trip1.htm	6/10/13	01:49 min	A man wants to go to Germany his girlfriend and ask a friend how to greet her parents in an adecuated way.	no	yes , I first listened another one more dificult and I had to change .	none	the man's friend speaks quite weird.