Do You Want to Practice Your Listening Skills? Listen to Adora Svitak!

A key part of getting better at understanding and using English is to listen to people speak it. This young lady, Adora Svitak, is a published story writer and blogger. She uses many high-level vocabulary words like "imperative." Listen once or twice all the way through. Identify the main idea of her talk. Then listen again, stopping the talk every minute or so. See if you can summarize what she has said up to that point. Rewind and listen again and again until you understand the whole talk. Write down new vocabulary words, and look them up in a dictionary. Pick three of them, and use them in your conversations, emails or other communications this week to remember then. Finally, be inspired by this amazing child.