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Welcome to Dr. Elwood's Listening course

Greetings, everyone! Welcome to Tokiwa University and to my listening class, and let's have a great term together.

Class guidelines

Dr. Elwood's comments in April of 2012: 

Everyone, I am looking forward to having you in my listening classes this year. Just so we all understand well, let's review a bit:

• Because this is a listening class, attendance is very important (and it is required);
• No sleeping in my class, please (I don't get to sleep, so neither do you :-);
• You need to buy a B5-size notebook for vocabulary; 
• Bring your vocabulary notebook and 
• If you are absent, it is YOUR responsibility to find out about homework (most homework papers you can download from this page).  

Our vocabulary studies

A very important part of our class is improving your vocabulary, so here are some links to help you. First, you must keep a vocabulary notebook of words you hear, see, or read this year--here are the vocabulary notebook guidelines which you received in class.  Every week please add 5 useful words (not just difficult words, but words you could use). 

You may also just check the lists: 1000-word level , 2000-word level, Academic Word List. 

External links...

These are homepages dealing with listening issues...interesting and useful.

IPA page, folks...a very cool page, good for practicing Phonetics homepage

Ted Power's English page

The top six links are very good practice. Be careful, however, because this is British English (not American English).

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