Your English Listening Exercises?

Where are the Bubbles?

I do English listening exercises in my classroom now.  And sometimes I draw bubbles on the whiteboard.  It really helps students to understand.

Now the bubbles are designed to make you see an image.  Seeing an image helps us to understand much faster than sounds (sounds=spoken language) do.  So I make the sounds into pictures, and sometimes they are bubbles.  This also makes doing English listening exercises more interesting.

As you listen to the stories on this site, you can look at the picture.  It is sometimes a bit fuzzy, to help your imagination and make the rest of the picture.  Then your brain will start to make meaning for the story.  

Think in Pictures

Our brains think in pictures.  That is how they were built.  The faster you can turn information into a picture, the faster you will start to understand it.  Soon you will learn to listen in pictures as you do your English listening exercises.

But sometimes we don't think in pictures.  Well the truth is we do.  Always.  We just aren't always aware of them.  You can become more aware of your pictures by drawing them.  

Draw

I had a student who told me he couldn't draw.  "That's ok," I said, "draw something anyway.  Anything.  It is good for your brain to start thinking."  

Just like any other skill, his drawing got better.  And better.  And he began to understand more and more.   Soon, he said, "I do all my English listening exercises totally in pictures now!"

When you sit down to listen to the stories on this site, have paper.  Get a sheet of blank paper and a pencil.  As you listen, draw what you hear.  Stop the story to draw.  Each time you do English listening exercises draw more pictures.  

Before too long, you will find English listening exercises fun, and easy.

Asking For Trouble

Verb List
1. Be asking for to behave stupidly in a way that is likely to cause problems for you
2. Battle it out  to fight or compete against one or more oponents, in order to decide a winner
3. Check up      to make certain that you have the correct facts about something
4. Figure out     to understand someone or something, or to find the answer to something by thinking carefully
5. Hang around  to spend time sonewhere, usually without doing very much

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