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Dictation

Hello, Hello. Welcome to today’s live English lesson, here on the Speak English with Vanessa youtube channel.

I’m glad you’re here to learn English with me and today to improve your listening and writing skills.

Of course, when you improve your listening and writing skills you’re going to improve your speaking, you’re going to improve your communication in general. So today, we have a special dictation practice to help you really learn the specific things about English that maybe you miss when you’re listening. So today if you’re joining me live welcome. I’m glad you’re here. Hello Edvin. I’m glad you’re here. We have friends from Thailand, Rosario Lynn Brazil. Welcome Kevin and Ecuador. Hello hello. I’m glad. You’re here to join me today. Before we get started I Want to let you know this is like always an active practice together.

So you need to have a pen or a pencil and you need to have some paper; something to write with. If you don’t have a pen and paper go now and get some get something to write on. Even if it’s a napkin even if it’s your hand. We need to be actively practicing today’s dictation practice. Because this is something that you can listen to but you need to interact with. You need to do it yourself. So take a moment. Get Something to write with. Get a piece of paper. Get a notebook and prepare to listen carefully for details and also to be nice to yourself. If you miss some words don’t worry about it.

Thank you for joining me from Oman, from Iraq welcome. Mauritania welcome I’m glad that you are all here in Cote d’Ivoire, excellent, excellent.

First, let me explain what is a dictation practice. I made a video a couple weeks ago about dictation and how it can help you to improve your listening skills, how it can help you to improve your communication because you’re listening for each detail and of course how it can improve your writing skills. So what is dictation? Well, it means that one person today that’s me one person is going to read a sentence and you need to write exactly what I say. Think about each detail each capital letter, each little piece of punctuation. You need to think about the details, the spelling, the pauses prepare yourself because this is a great way to make sure that you’re understanding everything.

Maybe you feel like you understand the general meaning but you need to understand each word if you’re gonna actually communicate in an active way in an accurate way. If you miss an important Word, your conversation could have some, some negative effects.

So today are you ready? Do you have those two things, something to write with and a piece of

Paper? Mmm. Well, today we’re going to be talking about three dictation sentences.

One of them is an easy sentence, one of them is a medium sentence and one of them is an advanced sentence and the good news is they each build on the previous sentence so the first easy sentence is our base idea and then the medium sentence is going to add a little bit to that and then the advanced sentence is going to add even more. So what I’m gonna do is I’m gonna share my screen with you first of all because I want to share with you a concept that we’re going to talk about in the dictation.

So in the dictation, there’s a word that I want to explain to you. So I’m going to share my screen and you’re going to take a look at a picture, a picture on this screen. Let’s see if I can share alright. Okay, so I should be sharing my screen at the moment. Here you can see a lovely picture, a lovely picture. This is a picture from Sunday.

On Sunday I was in New York City visiting my sister. So you can see my sister here. You can see Dan my husband here and you can see her husband Jorge here. And we participated in a New York event. That’s pretty, pretty typical on Sundays in New York. It’s called brunch, brunch. This word mixes breakfast and lunch together. Brunch. And it means on Sunday you don’t go early in the morning and eat breakfast at a restaurant. You take your time. You go slowly and maybe 12 o’clock. Maybe one o’clock maybe two o’clock, you go to a restaurant and you eat usually breakfast food. So there’s eggs and toast and here, there are some, some special drinks at this place. They serve what did they serve they serve like mimosas and special kind of morning, morning alcoholic drinks. Unfortunately, I didn’t get to drink them because I’m gonna have a baby but my family enjoyed it and I just enjoyed being in the sun, outside enjoying brunch, enjoying brunch. So today’s sentences are about brunch. Soi wanted to show you this picture so that you can imagine what’s going on. I’m gonna go back to my to my video here. Hello hello we’re back. So I wanted to show you this picture of brunch and we’ll start with the first easy dictation sentence.

Are you ready for the first dictation sentence?

It is all about this picture. This picture is our theme today, our theme today.

So the first sentence is “Sunday brunch will be $19 each”

So what I want you to do on your paper, I want you to write this sentence you can write it in the chatbox you can write it in the comments or you can write it on your paper and this will help you to correct it and to go back.

Our first easy dictation sentence is “Sunday brunch will be $19 each”

Let me say that quickly “Sunday brunch will be $19 each” “Sunday brunch will be $19 each” “ Sunday brunch will be $19 each” Hmm. So I would like you to try to write this as accurately as possible in your notebook in the chat box in the comments if you’re trying to write it yourself in your notebook maybe don’t look at the chatbox or the comments for a moment because you want to try to improve your own skills first of all.

“Sunday brunch will be $19 each”

All right. Now that you have had a couple moments to write this down. Let’s take a look at the correct answer.

I have here on my screen the correct sentence. So we’re going to share this “

Sunday brunch will be $19 each”.

So I’m going to share my screen again and we’re going to take a look at the correct answer for our easy dictation this is just the easy dictation and we’re going to go to the medium and then advanced.

All right.

Here we have our easy dictation Sunday brunch will be $19 each.

Typically when we write prices, we use this dollar sign here before 19..19.

And this is true in New York Sunday brunch was nineteen dollars per person and in the city where I live it’s much cheaper you can go to a restaurant for mmm maybe ten dollars but in New York, my sister said $19 each is a really good price, especially if they include breakfast plus three drinks.

So it was vacation for us and we enjoyed eating Sunday brunch.

So let me know how did you do?

How was your first dictation sentence?

Sunday brunch will be $19 each.

If you missed the beginning of this lesson we talked about brunch.

Brunch is breakfast plus lunch and it’s a typical weekend meal.

Usually, we eat it late one o’clock and you can eat some breakfast foods.

So you could see our first dictation sentence Sunday brunch will be $19 each.

Are you ready for the medium dictation?

We’re going to add to the sentence same concept but we’re going to add let’s go to the second one.

Get your paper your pencil ready it is.

I’m going to say it slowly two times and then I’m going to say it at a quicker pace, a more conversational speed after that.

So listen carefully the first two times are a little slower, only twice, are you ready?

Sunday brunch is going to be $76 for the four of us.

One more time slowly.

Sunday brunch is going to be $76 for the four of us.

And now I’m going to read it quickly conversational speed.

If I were talking to my sister, I wouldn’t say it slowly like this I would probably say it quicker so I want to test your ears I’m gonna say it a couple times quickly.

Sunday brunch is going to be $76 for the four of us… Sunday brunch is going to be $76 for the four of us…Sunday brunch is gonna be $76 for the four of us.

Whoo, all right.

Are you writing down? Are you preparing?

Sunday brunch is gonna be $76 for the four of us.

How is it going? Can you, you feel like you can hear each word? Are some parts of it more complicated?

Let’s take a look at the correct answer.

I’m going to share my screen and we’ll see how it goes.

Let’s see how, how did you do.

Okay here, you can see the medium dictation:

Sunday brunch is going to be $76 for the four of us.

I could say “Sunday brunch is going to be $76 total”

That’s fine but in a conversation, we often use this final expression for the four of us. There are four people me, my husband, my sister, and her husband. Four people for the four of us for the four of us.

Sunday brunch is gonna be $76 for the four of us. Okay.

Are you ready for the next level? The next level builds on this idea but we’re gonna add we’re gonna add a little bit another expression that maybe two expressions that I hope will be useful to you and maybe a little new. So let’s prepare for the advanced, advanced dictation. It is. Are you ready?

Sunday brunch is going to stretch my budget but don’t worry about it. It’s on me.

So this one is a little longer there’s a couple different expressions here we’re still talking about money

We’re still talking about Sunday brunch but you need to make sure that your punctuation is correct and also spelling, correct words maybe some of these words you don’t know. I’m gonna say it one more Time slowly and then I’m gonna say it quickly.

Sunday brunch is going to stretch my budget but don’t worry about it it’s on me.

Hmm. If you don’t know what the full sentence means don’t worry about it we’re gonna talk about it. Just imagine the same idea Sunday brunch sitting outside in the Sun enjoying eating together.

Now I’m gonna say it quickly a couple times. Are you ready?

Let’s make sure that we can all see it here. All right.

Sunday brunch is gonna stretch my budget but don’t worry about it. It’s on me.

Sunday brunch is gonna stretch my budget but don’t worry about it it’s on me.

Sunday brunch is gonna stretch my budget but don’t worry about it it’s on me.

Whoo. All right. Now, this sentence because it’s an advanced sentence. Uses more punctuation possibly more than one sentence and it uses some words that are beyond basic. So I hope that for you. You’re listening you’re just guessing if you don’t know exactly what it is.

I’m going to read it one more time and then let’s take a look.

Sunday brunch is going to stretch my budget but don’t worry about it it’s on me.

Okay. I’m going to share my screen and let’s check your answer.

Okay. Let’s take a look.

I’m curious how did you do with each level. Let’s share this screen here okay.

Here is our advanced dictation.

Sunday brunch is going to stretch my budget but don’t worry about it. It’s on me. It’s on me.

Mmm… check each word check the spelling check the punctuation and let’s talk about what this sentence means stretch, stretch my budget. So I mentioned that in my city if I ate brunch it would be half the price, pretty cheap but in New York, everything is more expensive so I said my budget. This is the amount of money that I want to spend. My budget so Sunday brunch is more money than I want to spend but it doesn’t matter I want to do it. I want to go and experience this. So stretch my budget means it’s going to expand the money that I want to spend. I have to spend more money than I want to but don’t worry about it. It’s on me. I want to ask you what do you think.

Hello, I’m back. What do you think is on me? What is on me? It’s on me… Hmm.

This is an expression that we can use in a lot of different ways.it’s on me. It’s on the house. Don’t worry. It’s on the house. Don’t worry. It’s on me. Hmm. Yes.

Lewis has the correct answer here in the chatbox.

He says I’ll pay the bill. I’ll pay for it, beautiful. Yes. I’ll pay for it. And when we went to, to New York

City dan and I stayed with my sister we stayed with her husband in their apartment and it was really nice that they let us stay in their apartment in the middle of New York City such a convenient location and we because we were in their house, we wanted to do something nice for them so I used almost this exact sentence. I said Oh Sunday brunch is kind of expensive but don’t worry about it. It’s on us… Dan and I.

We paid for it. We paid for everyone because we wanted to say thank you thank you for hosting us in New York. It’s on us. It’s on me.

Great! I want to know how did you do? How did you do with these three sentences?

You can write them in the comments tell me how you did with each one or in general how do you feel about this dictation practice. Was it interesting? Was it useful to you did you build on your vocabulary? Did you build those skills? We used Sunday brunch, we used prices, we used some special idioms like stretch my budget. It’s on me.

Maybe these are new words for you but I hope that you can listen carefully and try to use that so my recommendation is to use this idea of a dictation practice and as you’re listening to up there English materials as you’re listening to my videos, as you’re watching a movie or other youtube videos. Take one sentence. Take two sentences and pause the video, go back listen again pause the podcast go back listen again and try to write them down.

The best way to do this is if you can actually see a transcript or if you can actually see the correct answer in the subtitles. If there are no subtitles then it’s gonna be hard to see if you have the correct answer but I recommend using this with almost anything use this with TED Talks, use this with course material that you have feel free to use dictation, to improve your listening and also this is going to help you improve your speaking skills because when you can catch each word you can imitate that yourself. If you can’t catch each word your sentences are going to be missing some pieces .it’s gonna be a little more difficult.

So I hope that today’s practice is useful for you. Feel free to repeat it if you would like me to do any of these dictation practices in the future, let me know in the comments.

Yes Vanessa I’d like to continue this, this is really fun and interesting and useful I hope so.

So if you are joining me live, thanks so much you guys have been writing a ton of sentences. You’re awesome. I think this is beautiful practice. Keep up the good work and before we go today.

If you would like to continue learning with me keep up your English and keep up this practice.