Saturday, April 19, 2008

Randall's Cyber Listening Lab

Today I will introduce you another useful website for English learners— Randall's Cyber Listening Lab. There are various clips in three sections to choose from here.

The clip I choose from Randall's Cyber Listening Lab today is “Easy Pet Care” from the difficult section. It is a dialogue between the male neighbors. Norman will be away during the weekends and he asked Shawn to take care of his pets. According to Norman’s description, his animals are kind of spoiled and weird. For example, the dog watch TV program and the cat go to the therapist.

Shawn, at last, suggests Norman to find some professional help to take care of his crazy animals. This clip is kind of funny and interesting to listen that it has a lot exaggerative expressions in the dialogue. After listening (twice recommended by our instructor) to the audio, you are required to answer to comprehensive questions. Then you can read the script of what you have just listened. Here are some vocabularies to learn:

Pamper-spoil a child or pet

Temperamental –change feelings or mood

Fangs-long sharp animal teeth from snake

Docile-easy to handle

Script Here

Now it's your turn to try. Enjoy!

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