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Date Posted: 13:17:06 03/11/11 Fri
Author: Marcia (without computer this weekend)
Subject: task 5

I could use the following audios from the web site www.esl-lab.com:

A fun day
A hiking family
Snack Time

I think all these files are very good. According to the teachers intention these audios can make the perfect match. They are free, available to everyone who has internet and the download is easy and fast. The audios are mostly for beginners. Some of the dialogues provide a daily vocabulary with peace of information that recalls lots of background knowledge that they have already acquired. The dialogue sounds natural and it is really important because allows students get in touch to foreigners accents. Most of them bring casual conversation and daily vocabulary. The speakers context is familiar to the experimented by students lives. It is a perfect place for students make inferences about some unknown words and expressions that they may come across.
The weaknesses of these audios lay in the fact that they are no interactive. It doesn’t bring new facts, so students don’t have to make a great effort to understand the complete message. Some idiomatic expressions can be a problem also if it is not properly explained. It can lead them to assume that the speaker is using the words in a literally sense.

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