Monday, August 24, 2009

Movie

*Source:
G.I.Joe directed by Steven Sommers at IMAX Cinema


*Strategies:

1. Before watching it, search the story by the Internet
2. Just concentrate during watching it
3. During watching it, try to remember words which I didn't know.
4. After watching it, look for the meaning of new words


*Evaluation:

1. Before watching it, serch the story by the Internet would be helpful because it help to understand what the story is going on, what the story is telling us.
2. Just concentrate during watching it because there is no subtitle. Just LISTEN!
3. It is a good idea that write down new words on a piece of paper.
4. Look dictionary, and then know the new words.


*Reflection:

1. It was hard to understand the film during watching it, because there is no subtitle neither English, nor Korean.
2. I didn't write down new words, just I tried to remember them. So I forgot almost new words. Next time, I should make a note.

Monday, August 17, 2009

Music

*Source: Insomnia sung by Craig David


*Strategies

1. First time, just listen it.
2. Listen again the song with the lyric.
3. After that, find out new words during reading the lyric of the song.
4. Singing it when I listen again the song


*Evaluations

1. Just listening it first time makes me to concentrate on the song.
2. Listen again with the lyric is helpful to understand what I couldn't understand.
3. Singing it when I listen again the song is good for practicing pronunciation.


*Reflections

1. Just listening it first time, it would be difficult what this song is saying about, but I like listening musics, so it was quite interesting to me. It's not boring and feel fun.
2. The song "Insomnia" is good song. Although I cannot catch all lyric because it is fast, there is no difficult words.

Master of IELTS - Listening

*Source: Master of IELTS Listening
    -Basic Practice


*Strategies

1. Before listening, read explanations.
2. Play the CD, and answer the questions.
3. After filling all answers, check the answers, and then listening again.



*Evaluation

1. Read explanations before listening CD is quite important because the explanations tell me what I am going to do, and purpose of questions.
2. Replaying the CD is helpful for understand pronunciation.



*Reflection

1. Actually, this book is to practice an IELTS test for Koreans, so every explanation is written by Korean (except questions). So it was not difficult to understand what I am going to do, what is the purpose of the questions.
2. Although it was basic practice, it is hard to understand the pronunciation. I listened some numbers, dates, fractions, decimal points & money and names of people and place etc. Especially, listening fractions is very hard to me, because I have had no chance to use fractions.