7th dictation. East of Eden

I found it difficult because it was too long and because the speaker enumerated a lot of sustantives, and some of them were difficult. In fact, I could take a good number of suntatives, but not all of them.
The topic talks about the characteristics and defests of the human being, and it's right in the majority of them.

6th dictation. Charlie and the chocolate factory

It was a bit difficult, because it was very long and beacuse the speaker used some difficult words, which weren't easy to understand. However, I could understand it reasonably good without many fails.
The topic is nice, it talks about a person who doesn't want to be with grown-up people, because they wouldn't understand him.

5th dictation. That man

I was coming down the stair
I met a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today.
I wish that man would go away.


Fortunately, I could understand it easily. I only had problems with the first word of the text, but then I heard it properly and I could complete the dictation.

4th dictation. Numbers

Seven eights are fifty-six. Sixty divided by four is fifteen. Six over two is three. Seven multiplied by six is forty-two. Thirty-nine over thirteen is three. Seventy seventeen. Eighteen eighty. Sixty sixteen.


This dictation was a bit difficult because numbers and mathematical operations are always difficult to understand, and more if you have to write it very quickly, Fortunately, we can listes to it three times, so I could write it fairly good.

3rd dictation. Tears and laughs

The tears of the world are a constat quantity. For each person who begins to cry, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. It's a very beautifull sentence, and it could be true, why not? It wasn't very easy to understand. Although I understood almost everything, there were some words that I didn't understod.

2nd dictation. Strange food.

I eat peas with honey.
I've done it all my life.
It makes the peas taste funny,
but it keeps them on the knife.


It's very extrange, eating peas with honey, but everyone eats whats he wants.
I didn't found it very difficult, only the last sentence, that I couldn't understand very well, especially the last words, but the facta tat it was in verse and that rhymed made it a bit easier.

1st dictation. My cat Trotsky

I have a cat called Trotsky. Every night she sits with me and watches TV. She likes everything on TV-well, almost everything. I eat fast food, and she eats fish or chicken with me in front of the TV. I drink beer or coke, and she drinks milk.


It's about a pet that acts like a person. Thats very nice, and I'm sure that so many pets act like him.
I found it very easy, and I could understand and write it the first time I listened to it.

Listening tasks 13

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/expense/expenserd1.htm	20/10/2013	2:39 minutes	The money, and the problems that carries wasting money in unnecessary things.	No. Fortunatelly, I could understand it very well.	No.	They spoke really slowly and clerly, so it was easy for me to understand everuthinng.	I didn't have difficulties to understand it.

Answering machine

Phone conversation

Listening tasks 12

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/cellphone/cellphonerd1.htm	16/10/2013	1:11 minutes	It's about cell phones, offers to buy them and how necessary are nowadays, even for young teens.	No, I understood it very well.	No.	Some words and sentences were very easy to understand, and sometimes they spoke very clearly.	Sometimes they started speaking quickly and it bacame harder to understand it, but not so much.

Listening tasks 11

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/emergencykit/emergencykitrd1.htm	14/10/2013	3:57 minutes	It's about the danger situations that could happen, the different ways to face it and the most important things to do and have in these cases.	No, I could understand it well, although it was a little difficult for me.	No.	They said some key words, which made me could understand much better the conversation.	It was my first difficult video, so I found it a little bit more difficult than others. But I could understand it, although the first part was especially difficult for me.

Seasells seller's voki.

Tiny Trevor's voki.

Listening tasks 10

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/careersearch/careersearchrd1.htm	13/10/13	1: 35 minutes	It's about searching a carrer and the prejudices and machism that exists around the jobs.	No, fortunatelly I could understand it the first time.	No.	Sometimes they spoke a little bit slower, making easier understanding the dialogue.	Sometimes they spoke quickly and without vocalizing, but it wasn't very difficult to understand.

Listening tasks 9

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/rentcar/rentcarrd1.htm	10/10/13	3: 22 minutes	It`s about a man who is renting a car, the problems that it gives and the insurances.	No, I coulld undesrtand it the first time I heard it.	No.	The man who wanted to rent the car spoke very clearly and it was easy to understand.	The man who worked innyhe rental cars company spoke fast and without vocalizing very welll, and with an extrange accent.

Listening tasks 8

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/hotelreservations/hotelreservationsrd1.htm	09/10/13	1: 53 minutes	It's about hotel reservations, and the problems they can create with thing that you think are include in the price but in fact aren't.	No, I could understand it very well.	No.	Some words were very easy to understand, and sometimes they spoke clearly, although sometimes not.	They sometime spoke quickly, especially when they were angry, and they interrupt each other. And sometimes the vocabulary was difficult.

Listening tasks 7

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	08/10/13	1:44 minues	It's about a father and his daughter having a conversation about  doing the breakfast and how to do it.	No, I understood it very well.	No.	Th words about breakfast and food easy to understand.	The girl sometimes spoke fast and without vocalizing, so it was difficult to understand, especially at the beginning.

Translation English-phonetics 2

Tiny Trevor takes twenty two and two thirds of a second to tie two tall tigers to two tall trees.How long does Tiny Trevor take to tie two tall tigers to two tall trees?

/ˈtaɪnɪ/ /ˈtrɛvə/ /teɪks/ /ˈtwɛntɪ/ /tuː/ /ænd/ /tuː/ /θɜːd/ /ɒv/  /a/ /ˈsɛkənd/ /tuː/ /taɪ/ /tuː/ /ˈtaɪɡə/ /tuː/ /tuː/ /tɔːl/ /triː//haʊ/ /lɒŋ/ /dʌz/ /ˈtaɪnɪ/ /ˈtrɛvə/ /teɪk/ /tuː/ /taɪ/ /tuː/ /tɔːl/ /ˈtaɪɡə/ /tuː/ /tuː/ /tɔːl/ /triː/

She sells seasells by the sea-shore
The sells she sells are surely seasells
So if she sells seasells on the seashore
I'm sure she sells seashore shells

/ʃiː/   /sɛls/  /ˈsiːˌʃɛls/  /baɪ/  /ðə/  /siː, ʃɔː/
 /ðə/  /ʃɛls/  /ʃiː/ /sɛls/  /ɑː/  /ˈʃʊəlɪ/  /ˈsiːˌʃɛls/  
/səʊ/  /ɪf/  /ʃiː/   /sɛls/   /ˈsiːˌʃɛls/ /ɒn/  /ðə/  /ˈsiːˌʃɔː/
/aɪm/  /ʃʊə/ /ʃiː/   /sɛls/   /ˈsiːˌʃɔː/  /ʃɛls/

Listening tasks 6

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/bakingcookies/bakingcookiesrd1.htm	07/10/13	2: 31 minutes	It's about how the hoster of the programme learned cooking and haow yo make a cake, that is what the programme is about.	No, I Could understand it very well.	No.	They sppke really clarely and slowly, sonit was easy to understand.	They introduced a vocabulary that sometimes was  hard to understand, because they were words about food.

Voki.

Listening tasks 5

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/supplies/suppliesrd1.htm	06/10/13	1. 48 minutes.	The supplies that are necessary for school, and how they change with the growth of the student and with the pass of the time.	NO, I understood it perfectly.	no.	They talked in a esay way, so It was easy to understand the conversation.	They used some difficult wordsfor me. Those words were vocabulary about achool, so it was a bit difficult to understand it.

Listening tasks 4

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/dui/duird1.htm	06/10/13	2:23 minutes	The alcoholism and that is very hard recognizing that you have a problem with the drinks.	No, I could understood it the first time.	No.	Some main words, that were very hepful to know the topic.	They spoke a little bt quickly, but it was only a problem at the beginning, then I got used to it and it was easier.

Listening tasks 3

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	02/10/2013	2:15 minutes	It's about a story of an UFO and its unbelievable situations (and skeptical people who don't believe in this kind of things). But, in fact, it seems that the man wasdrunk.	No, I could understand it the firt time I heard it.	No.	They used sme key words that helped to understand the topic and the general ideas.	They use a vocabulary a little bit difficult for me, and sometimes, especially at the beginning, the talked quickly and no vocalizing.

Translation English-phonetics.

I wish the wish you wish to wish, but if you wish the wish the witch wishes, I won't wish the wish you wish to wish.

/aɪ/ /wɪʃ/ /tʊ/ /wɪʃ/ /ðə/ /wɪʃ/ /ju/ /wɪʃ/ /tʊ/ /wɪʃ/ /bʌt/ /ɪf/ /ju/ /wɪʃ/  /ðə/ /wɪʃ/ /ðə/ /wɪtʃ/ /wɪʃ/ /aɪ/ /wəʊnt/  /wɪʃ/ /ðə/ /wɪʃ/ /ju/ /wɪʃ/ /tʊ/ /wɪʃ/

I scream, you scream, we all scream for icecream.

/aɪ/ /skriːm/ /ju/ /skriːm/ /wiː/ /ɔːl/ /skriːm/ /fɔː/ /aɪskriːm/