Thursday, November 13, 2008

Reflection 1 - Podcasting my way to mastery of English

I would use these podcast series because there are a lot of interesting topics that I can use as an English learner; when we arrived here it was really difficult to deal with simple things; going to the grocery store was a really difficult challenge; we did not know what kind of language or vocabulary was necessary to keep up with the conversation.
In this website we can find topics related to daily life activities such as, shopping for specific things, reading food labels or talking about product quality. For each podcast we have the script and the vocabulary related to one specific episode. This kind of podcast will assist me back home because I can keep in touch with real stories in English; I can practice what I learned here; besides, I can learn new stuff that I could not practice here. I would use this website once a week in order to go deeply in each episode; I need time to assimilate the new vocabulary, and to relate this new material to something that I can use in a real context.

1 comment:

Gina Petrie/CALE/ESLG said...

Francisco,
Nice choice! Your plan sounds like a good one. Good luck.

Gina