SELF-ASSESSENT OF PODCASTING SKILLS

This term we are going to take an English exam and the listening is one of the exam‘s task. So if you want to get great mark of this exam, it’s very important to have good skills of listening. One of the ways to improve it is to listen the podcasts from the http://martinmcmorrow.podomatic.com/ website. I have listened two podcasts: „Dream your life, live your dream“ and “Intelligent design the future“

· THE RATE OF SPEAKING

First‘s podcast‘s rate of speaking was very fast, but in second podcast rate of speaking was average, so it was more easier to listen it.

· HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU LISTENED TO SELECTED PODCASTS?

First podcast I was listening twice, because of very fast rate of speaking. Second podcast was easier to understand so to listen twice were no need.

· WHICH EXERCISES ARE USEFUL FROM IMPROVING LISTENING SKILLS?

I think that all exercises are useful (open-ended questions, multiple choice, true/false, etc) because they all improve our listening skills from different sides.

· HOW DO YOU EVALUATE YOUR ABILITY TO UNDERSTAND AUTHENTIC SPEECH?

I think my ability to understand authentic speech is satisfactory, however, if speaking is not very fast it is easier to understand even authentic speech, althought very fast speech makes me some problems.

· DO YOU THINK YOU WOULD BE ABLE TO PASS A LISTENING EXAM PAPER IF YOU HAD TO TAKE AN EXAM TODAY?

I‘m not sure. I think it depend on the task. If it would be difficult, I think I would fail it, but if task would be easier, fortune will smile me.

· HOW CAN YOU IMPROVE YOUR LISTENING SKILLS?

There are many ways to improve listening skills. The best, in my opinion, are to talk to native speakers and watch English films. Also I think it is very good to go abroad for minimum one month, but not all can presume it.