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