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Benefits from listening to English through short stories

Most of the teaching experts recommend that: For beginners, whether children or adults, the listening exercises should be simple. The length of the listening is just enough, the speed of reading is slow, the vocabulary and the sentence structure are not complicated, the voice is easy to listen. Therefore, choosing short stories is just on the above criteria and bringing many benefits for starting practice. Specifically:

Short content is easy for beginners to listen

Short listening, simple content helps new learners easily understand the meaning of the story after a few hearing. In addition, the length of the new listening is just enough to help learners focus more than listening to the long and difficult lesson.

Expand vocabulary and language structure

Starting to listen, you often face many difficulties because many vocabulary unknown or already know but do not know how to pronounce so listen not. On the other hand, you will also encounter strange but strange sentence patterns, even though you have seen it, but because you are not used to listening training, it is difficult to identify.

By practicing listening to short stories regularly, you will grasp these vocabulary and patterns, and get used to many new words. Once you’ve heard proficiently, you can develop speaking skills by speaking about the stories you have heard for your friends and teachers in English easily.

Improve language ability and quickly respond in communication

Regularly practice listening to English through short stories to help you get used to many voices with many different speeds, so you can easily communicate with foreigners. Moreover, your brain will gradually get used to understanding the English meaning as soon as you hear instead of a process of translating from English to Vietnamese as the original.

Which English short stories should be used?

Source of short stories English is quite diverse, there are 3 main sources you can choose including: Story books, quality stories websites and specialized English stories software. However, to find documents with full transcript & listening file, you will take a lot of time, so Shining Home – Gia đình Anh Ngữ suggests some sources of listening to the short stories of English as follows:

• Nguyen Ngoc Ngan Short Stories: Collection of short stories by author Nguyen Ngoc Ngan is used to teach English at Vietnamese schools.

• Project Gutenberg: Gutenberg Project offers a collection of rich English short stories including classic works and stories from famous authors.

• Oxford Bookworms Library: This is a collection of popular English short stories for different level English learners. The whole story has been rewritten and arranged from easy to difficult.

• American Literature: This site offers some famous short stories of American authors to help you get used to American literature.

• British Council – Short Stories: British Council offers some free English short stories with different content and difficult levels. You can use to improve skills slowly.

• ESL FAST: This site contains a collection of short stories that are easy to understand and suitable for English learners in primary and intermediate level.

• Listen and Read Along: This resource provides short stories with sound for you to listen and read at the same time to help you practice 4 skills of listening – speaking – reading – writing.

More reference: [FULL] Summary of best English listening materials at all levels

If you have not been able to find the right document, please refer to the list of 25+ short stories that hear the most here: Ebook + Audio

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Effective method of listening to English through short stories

With the three reference sources above, you will find many simple stories to practice listening. Along with that, you need to combine the listening methods corresponding to 3 stages: before listening, during training and after training to learn effectively.

Before listening practice

Before starting to practice listening, you need to determine the goals and select stories that are suitable for the level of beginner. Next, take the initiative to create the environment and join the English learning group to have more motivation and friends to study together. Prepare these things, you will have a favorable start.

Determine the goals and personal preferences

For new people, you should set specific goals over time such as:

• In the first 1-2 months, hearing the words clearly, do not need to fully understand the content

• 1.5 – 2 months, hear the words clearly and understand the great idea of ​​the story

• From the following months, set goals to hear the words clearly and understand the whole content of each sentence in the story. Then raise your level of listening to your understanding with long stories, more complicated words and sentence structures.

Find and choose the right short story

As mentioned, when starting to practice listening to English through short stories, you should choose stories with characteristics such as:

• The short content is about 1 – 2 paragraphs corresponding to 8 – 12 sentences depending on the type of story.

• Reading and hearing time lasts a maximum of 2.5 – 3 minutes/ story.

• The content is easy to understand, less difficult vocabulary, using familiar sentence patterns.

Create learning environment

The “pagan” beautiful, comfortable learning area will bring you inspiration for learning. Can decorate small trees, necessary school supplies, 1-2 favorite paintings, … to make your study area more creative. Note do not display too much because that can cause you to distract.

Join English learning groups

Foreign language is a difficult subject, especially to practice listening to English more and more difficult and boring in the first time. So, find your own motivation and classmates to study through Facebook, Zalo, … offline!

During listening practice

For effective listening practice, you need to get 4 steps to practice listening in the following order:

• Step 1: Listen with subtitles for you to understand the general content of the story and know how to read new vocabulary in it. In addition, you will also understand the new sentence patterns through subtitles.

• Step 2: Listen without subtitles to practice hearing reflexes – Understand without translating into Vietnamese from one word. Moreover, this step will also help you imagine how to read the vocabulary and sentence samples simpler.

• Step 3: Listen and take notes – In this step, you will hear the subtitles and copy the story you hear, then check with the original content. Partly copying, please listen again and again to grasp the way of reading the sentence is wrong.

• Step 4: Practice listening through questions and exercises – Some books or websites, English listening apps have questions, exercises after each lesson. By listening to many times to answer the question, you will speed up the hearing speed faster. On the other hand, this step will also help you not have to repeat passive hearing leading to ineffective.

After listening practice

After each listening, take the following steps to maintain effectively.

• Practice regularly: You should proactively listen to the previous listening lessons. A listening article is that you can understand each sentence and grasp the great idea of ​​the story.

• Retelling the story: With every short story that has been proficient in understanding, you can practice telling in your language. This is also a way for you to practice speaking skills when learning English.

• Evaluation and adjustment: After each listening, self -evaluate the results and note the specific points to pay attention to overcome the next time. For example: wrong way to read words … (specific words), have not heard sentences … (specific sentences), etc.

5 tips to apply English listening skills through short stories in daily communication

Besides listening to short stories English, you can also apply these ways to improve your daily communication. Specifically:

Practice listening and reflecting language

By repeating many daily listening songs, you will gradually get used to the sound and tone of native readers. Combined with the new sentence recording will help you expand your vocabulary and sentence templates to use in communication.

In addition, in the listening step to answer questions, discuss or retell the story is also an opportunity for you to form a language reflex, listen to understand without translating each word through Vietnamese.

Use vocabulary and language structure from short stories

During listening practice, you can select the appropriate words for use in communication. In this way, your speaking skills will be improved and you are also more confident when using English to chat with foreigners.

Join the English or online class

To have more motivation and classmates, you should actively participate in English learning groups on social networks. In addition, you can take an online communication class to practice listening and have the opportunity to exchange in English more.

In particular, the conversation, sharing, discussing short stories will help you expand your knowledge easily.

Organize communication activities based on short story content

If you already have a practice group, often call for group discussions about any short story to practice communication. You can ask questions, raise views of the content of the story, state the realistic situations related to the meaning of the story to make the topic discussion more diverse.

Learn from language and expression in short stories

When practicing listening, pay attention to the expression, the context and tone of the character in the short story to apply in daily communication. Along with the selected words above, learn to express ideas, express emotions and communicate in the most natural way.

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It can be seen that the way to practice listening to English through short stories is not too complicated but you need to prepare carefully from documents, learning environment to health, determination to achieve the desired results. Apply the above steps the same tips for developing communication skills to improve the listening – speaking skill at the same time.

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