Randall's Sites

Assignments:

Listen to 2 audio clips at your chosen level at Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab. List the topics of your chosen clips and 5 expressions you learn from the listening in your blog before April 6.

I think this is really a good site for any one who wants to improve the ability of listening.
There are many classifications depend on different need or level.
As for me, I have chosen the topics under the classification of Academic Purposes to practice.
In fact, I have a plane to attend the TOEIC exam in May.
Haha, let's back to main topic.

Course 1: Hiking Arches National Park

Level:medium - Topic:hiking - Type:mini lecture - Speakers:one man - Length:02:01

Course 2: Internet Access

Level:medium - Topic:Web Hosting/ISP - Type:radio commercial - Speakers:one man - Length:00:45

Course 3: I Love Trees

Level:difficult - Topic:nature - Type:essay reading - Speakers:girl - Length:01:57


The above three are the audios that I chose.
I think the medium level is suitable for me in spite of I sill have to pay attention on it so much.
I can get the score about 80 to 100 in the exercises.
Then, it's not so smoothly to listen to the audio of "I Love Trees".
The immature accent of that girl was so hard to understand, not to mention the fast tempo that she speaks.
I can only get 60 after I listen it thrice.
Well, I have to choose the most comfotable level for me.
Otherwise, I will feel very frustrated all the time.

Let's talk about the functions..........
The best thing of this website is that it not just offers the script of the audio, it also offers some quizzes such us "listening exercises" and "text completion quiz".
The quizzes do help me a lot for checking the result I listen it.
On the other hand, the "Key Vocabulary" of the audio are just listed in the same page with the script.
All functions are rally thoughtful.

In conclusion, if you don't do learning English day by day.
Despite owning the best tool, you still won't mark any achievement.

It said "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink".