Listening / Reading Comprehension: Social Notworking

Let's kick the actual blogging off with a link from the excellent BBC World Service site: Social Notworking.

There are a number of different ways you can approach this exercise:  you could try listening to the audio without looking at the text.  You could read the text without listening to the audio.  You could then try doing both at the same time.

It's also very useful to read as you listen and just concentrate on the pronunciation of the different words.  The connection between English spelling and pronunciation can be very confusing, even for native speakers!

Finally, don't worry if you don't understand every single word.  You can, of course, go through the whole article with a dictionary, if you want to.  But the most important thing is to understand the article in general: small steps every day are better than large steps once a week.