Listening Diary 2_Listening Through Story

 LISTENING THROUGH STORY

Name                                : Liratya Vetra Sihombing

Student Number               : 22202241070

Date and Time                  : Monday, 20th of February 2023 at 15.10-15.41 pm

Audio Name                     : Nothing is Free (Learn English Happily)

Level/other Information   : Level 2

Summary  

    The video tells the story of a baker whose bread is very popular with many people because of its delicious taste and aroma. It's just that, this baker never smiles. Many people come just to smell the bread, without buying bread from the baker. The baker was angry, saying that the scent was not free. Until one day, there was a starving young man standing in front of the baker's shop, smelling the fragrant scent of bread, and then smiling. Knowing that, the baker was angry, and said that the hungry young man should pay for the scent he smelled. The hungry young man was confused. Then, the baker forced the hungry young man to a judge's house. After learning the storyline, the judge made a decision. That the scent was sufficiently carried by the sound of rubbing the leftover coins possessed by the starving young man.

Vocabularies/language expressions learnt :

1. Necessary = that is needed for a purpose or a reason

2.  Shook =  to move or make somebody/something move with short quick movements from side to side or up and down

3. Perhaps = possibly

4. Thief = ​a person who steals something from another person or place

5. Clinked = ​to make or cause something to make a sharp ringing sound, like that of glasses being hit against each other

Activities : What did you do? what scores do you get

    This is my second listening activity. Maybe because of level two, this activity felt easier than the previous activity. In this listening activity, I listened twice. First, I still look at the audio script. In this activity I still found some difficult vocabulary. So, I wrote down the vocabulary I didn't understand on a piece of paper. Then pause for a moment. Then, I listened to the audio for the second time without reading the script, while understanding the vocabulary that I didn't understand before. It was enough to help me in understanding the contents of the audio. 

Benefits : What benefits did you learn from this topic?

    From this activity I began to feel progress. Namely the importance of learning something gradually. Compared to my previous listening activities which immediately touched level 3. Apart from that, the audio also gave me a moral, namely not to be greedy in anything. This activity helped me find vocabulary that I had never heard before, new techniques for listening to stories, and pronunciations that I still mispronounced before, corrected through this audio.

Self-Assessment

The speed was OK. 

The vocabulary was OK. 

 The pronunciation was OK. 

This helped my listening skills. I think my listening skills are improving. I need to improve. listening to main ideas/listening to details/listening to numbers/listening to fast speech/listening to connected speech/listening for a long time/listening to other accents/my vocabulary/my pronunciation.