week 9

I. Activity one
Site:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/

Topic:
Reading- Nokia and Apple settle

Your score (if any):
none

 Key words learned:

･infringed its patents
used its legal recognized technology without permission

･counter sued
took legal action against someone who had taken legal action against them

･a carefully worded statement
an announcement expressed in a way that does make them sound guilty

･innovations
new technological and design developments

･decoded
expressed in simple way

Rating of the site:
4

Comments: 
His pronounciation had different accent compared with native English speakers, but I liked his way of speaking because he spoke strongly when he spoke words. On the other hand, he spoke weakly when he spoke auxiliary verbs and articles, so easy to catch words. Also the topic was interesting for me. I think this amount of article is the best for me to listen- not too short but not too long.

Time spending activity:
30 min.

week 8

I. Activity one
Site:
http://australianetwork.com/englishbites/episodes.htm

Topic:
Listening: City Lights

Your score (if any):
none

 Key words learned:

･gentrify
people who belong to a high social class

･reputation
the opinion that people have about someone or something because of what has happended in the past

･clamp down
to take official action to stop something

･vandalism
the crime of deliberately damazing things, especially public property

･queue
people waiting to do something like to enter a building

Rating of the site:
3.5/5

Comments: 
This speaker spoke fast and his English has differtent accent from native American, so I had struggle with listening without looking a script, but to train myself, I listened twice. At first, I listened without looking a script. This time, I understood 55%. Second time, I listened with looking a script. This time, I understood 100%.  To tell you the truth, I had some words that I don't know, but used the dictionary to find out the meaning. I think this is good for me not only to improve listening skill but also my vocaburaly skill, so I want to keep on doing this when I listen to these kind of dialogs. Each dialogs take only few minutes, so I can listen before I go to bed or in my free time.

Time spending activity:
listening time: 5.17min. total: 20min

week 7

I. Activity one
Site:
http://www.elllo.org/

Topic:
Listening: #698 Favorite Drinks

Your score (if any):
none

 Key words learned:

･switch=change
to change from doing or using one thing to do doing or using another

･absorb
to take in liquid, gas, or another substance from space around something
to read or hear a large amount og new information and understand it

･contribute
to give money, help, ideas etc to something that a lot of other people are also involved in

･processed
processed food has substances added to it before it is sold, in order to preserve it, improve its color etc

･a couple of
two

Rating of the site:
4/5

Comments: 
This dialog was conversation style with two women. Talking speed was little bit fast, but they paused in each context or end of the sentence, so it could chatch by each meaning. Person who answer the question used "um" or "and" which is not in the scription, so it made me in the real conversation.

Time spending activity:
listening time: 2.50min. total: 20min.