Improve your listening!

You wanna be a good listener? Pay attention to it:

- Listen will take you time.
- You have to give visual and oral encouragement to the speaker.
- Don't interrupt.
- Don't rush to fill a silence.
- Listen with an open mind and an open heart.
- Concentrate totally on the speaker and what is being said.
- You can ask some open questions, so the person who is talking  can be more relaxed.

You can practice this skills when you are listening an oral presentation but you can practice it when you are listening to a friend too, because your friend will feel that you want to hear his problems and he will be happier.


Appart from this, listening in class can be boring because you the person who is talking maybe is talking about something that doesn't belongs to you and you may think: "what the fuck?"
Now, I'm going to say some different kind of thinks you can do to improve your listening and you may will like it a lot.

1. Listen to songs: You can start listening songs in another language and then look for the letter from that song and understand that a little bit more.

2.Watch a film: Watching a film is another good idea to improve your listening, because you while you are seeing some actions you'll be hearing some words which you'll probably won't understand but you'll can relate the actions with the words and you'll undersand something. Sometimes subtitles can be usefull, too. You can start by watching films with subtitles and then you can try to make it without them.

Now, if you want to practice your english you can go to this famous webpage:

www.youtube.es

and look for some songs or some pieces of films. Now it is Christmas time so I recomend you to watch this funny vidio:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkJ2n5vkoG4&feature=fvst

Haven't you laught? It the best!!!


Judith Borràs Andrés