LISTENING DIARY 2 | LISTENING FOR GENERAL COMMUNICATION

Name  : Dewi Aisyah

Student Number : 19202241082

Listening 1

Website	Audio Name	Level/other information
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7PqJ5KYM8zkpHP6cXxOXDQ	How to Improve Listening Skill Effectively? (without spending extra time)	intermediate

Summary: What was the listening selection about?

This video will show you one way to improve without spending much of your free time listening. It’s called: natural listening to the main source. It comes from practical listening dialogue or conversation in daily life.It consists of two steps: Step 1: Download to all possible listening source to your phone ( including  podcasts, daily conversations and so on). Step 2: After download it, you should make use of your time to listen. But don’t listen in your free time, just listen when you do other activities which don’t distract you much or require much more attention.

Vocabularies/language expressions you learnt

1. Hence 2. Be fed up 3. GistQueue 4. Excitement 5. Convenient

Activities: What did you do? What scores did you get?

I used the 2 steps from the video to improve my listening skills.

Benefits: What benefits did you learn from this topic?

I knew the way to improve my listening English skill effectively.

Self-Assessment

Questions	Yes	No	Maybe
The speed was OK.	ya
The vocabulary was OK.	ya
The pronunciation was OK.	ya
This helped my listening skills.	ya
I think my listening skills are improving.	ya
I need to improve (please circle all that apply): listening to main ideas/listening to details/listening to numbers/listening to fast speech/listening to connected speech/listening for a long time/listening to other accents/my vocabulary/my pronunciation.	ya

Listening 2

Website	Audio Name	Level/other information
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7PqJ5KYM8zkpHP6cXxOXDQ	How to improve English Speaking skill by yourself	intermediate

Summary: What was the listening selection about?

If you want to improve your English speaking skill, the only thing you can do is to practice. There is a tip for you to actually speak for yourself. This method also helps to improve your grammar, vocabulary and sentence structure. And the key is “ IMITATION”. Paraphrase what you hear in your own sentences in some different levels. It consists of two steps: 1. Change it with different subject. 2. Develop the ideas by giving the detail happened in the past and something planned in the future.

Vocabularies/language expressions you learnt

1. Paraphrase 2. Revise

I watched some english videos. After that I paraphrased what I hear in my own sentences in some different levels.

Benefits: What benefits did you learn from this topic?

I watched some english videos. After that I paraphrased what I hear in my own sentences in some different levels.

Self-Assessment

Questions	Yes	No	Maybe
The speed was OK.	ya
The vocabulary was OK.	ya
The pronunciation was OK.	ya
This helped my listening skills.	ya
I think my listening skills are improving.	ya
I need to improve (please circle all that apply): listening to main ideas/listening to details/listening to numbers/listening to fast speech/listening to connected speech/listening for a long time/listening to other accents/my vocabulary/my pronunciation.	ya

Listening 3

Website	Audio Name	Level/other information
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-g0gSStENkYPXFRsKrlvyA	Confusing English VerbsGo & Come	intermediate

Summary: What was the listening selection about?

This video show us about the best ways to improve our vocabulary fastly. Here are some of the tips: 1. Use enjoyable learning strategies for us.   2. It’s better to learn steadily over a long period of time. 3. we can associate new words with images, you’ll be more likely to remember them. 4. we can use social media to learn new vocab.

Vocabularies/language expressions you learnt

1. Steadily 2. Aquire

Activities: What did you do? What scores did you get?

I tried to use the ways from the video to learn new vocabularies.

Benefits: What benefits did you learn from this topic?

I could get some new vocabularies.

Self-Assessment

Questions	Yes	No	Maybe
The speed was OK.	ya
The vocabulary was OK.	ya
The pronunciation was OK.	ya
This helped my listening skills.	ya
I think my listening skills are improving.			ya
I need to improve (please circle all that apply): listening to main ideas/listening to details/listening to numbers/listening to fast speech/listening to connected speech/listening for a long time/listening to other accents/my vocabulary/my pronunciation.	ya