I’m an intermediate speaker, i do exercises, but I can’t improve my listening and i can’t
find exercises to help me do that.
do you sometimes feel this way?
So today, I want to give you my top 3 exercises to help your listening, for you, Intermediate
speaker.
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But here we go, I want to show you my top3 exercises that are easy to do you can do it
at home, by yourself, you can do it yourself, and these exercises will definitely help you
improve your listening skills.
Number 1: Podcasts.
Ah, Priscila, I know, I listen to podcasts.
Why are you saying this?
This is not new.
Wait a minute!
When I say podcast, which is nice if you already listen.
What I’m trying to say Is let’s focus on exercising alright?
So, what you need to do is: when you listen to a podcast that has the transcript, but
you are going to do this exercise a little bit differently, if you don’t already do
it which is: you are gonna listen to the podcast and then you are going to summarize the main
ideas of the podcast: what happened, what the person was talking about, important pieces
of information, key information.
Everything you really understood about the podcast.
Then you are going to listen one more time to check if something was missing or not.
And only then you will read the transcript.
The transcript will work as your answer key, not as your guide to help you understand.
It is an exercise, alright.
So this is my advice on how to use the podcast to improve your listening, listen, summarize
the ideas, try to take notes on as much as you can and then create a short summary.
Listen one more time to confirm, to make sure you got everything that was possible for you
and only then you will check the transcript Number 2: fill in the gaps.
These exercises are very easily found on the internet, or even books.
There is a conversation and there is a transcript, but the transcript is not complete.
You need to complete the transcript with the information that is missing.
What is the purpose of this exercise?
Detail, key words.
So this is a different kind of listening exercise, you are going to listen for specific words
and then you have to pay attention and focus all your attention to these words.
This is a completely different exercise guys, that is different from the podcast.
Because in the podcast you were trying to understand the idea, the main idea, the concept,
but now you are trying to listen to specific words.
This is gonna help your pro, your, your.
This is gonna help your listening tremendously.
You will see great improvement.
Understanding key words is so important and in a conversation, when you are talking to
a native speaker or to a non-native speaker, sometimes it is difficult to understand them,
but if you understand key words, you are able to communicate.
Exercise number 3: listen and order.
This is amazing.
This exercise is when you have the transcript, but the transcript is not organized, ok.
You can find this online, you can find this on books.
I will leave some suggestions of links where you can find these exercises, here in the
descriptions, alright.
And what is the purpose of this exercise?
Because sometimes we sit down and we do exercises and we don’t really understand the purpose
of the exercise.
And this one, the listen and order is to help you with interpretation and key words.
So the two first exercises I told you in the podcast and in the second one fill in the
gaps will be found here on this third exercise where you have to understand and listen to
key words, because the speaker is speaking very fast, you have to pay attention at words
and then you have to interpret and make sure that the information is connected correctly,
in the correct sequence, in the correct order.
These 3 exercises combined will help you improve your listening.
Because sometimes we get frustrated because we watch movies, we listen to music, we watch
TV series but we don’t improve our listening.
These exercises can help you because they are focusing on working on your skills, on
testing your skills.
I’m sure you will very very good results with these exercises.
Do you have any questions?
I would love to hear them.
What do you think; I have a question for you: what do you think of this idea, these 3 exercises?
Do you like them?
Let me know in the comments.
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Thanks guys and I’ll see you next time