Listening Assignment 2

Hi guys,
for your second listening assignment you will focus on pronunciation, combined with the topic of emphasizing subjects or objects in describing events (passive voice).

Instructions 

Note: if the links on this page don't work you can go to Google Drive and download the materials I mention here. The folder is called Rasputin Assignment, it is the your class folder.

Follow this link and download a handout about Rasputin.
1. The first part of the assignment is to read carefully, identify unknown vocabulary, and understand the text well.
2. The second part is to prepare the reading aloud of the text. Make sure you are able to pronounce words properly. Use online dictionaries to check out words you don't know how to pronounce.
3. The third part is to visit the website http://vocaroo.com/ 
There you will record the reading aloud of the text. 
4. After you have recorded the text, you will post the link of it to this blog. That is, below in the comments' section. 
5. You have until midnight this Friday to post your recording.
6. You will have until Sunday to listen to at least two recordings from any of your classmates. You will make a short comment about the quality of the recording. Be nice in the way you express about the others' work: for example, you did a good job as far as fluency. There are some words that could be pronounced better, for example... the word xxx is pronounced in this way (you can use phonetic transcription or link to the pronunciation of the word). 
Listen for good volume, clear pronunciation of words, intonation and rhythm (maybe to slow, maybe to fast). 
If you feel that after listening to your classmates, you would like to improve your recording you can submit it again. If you don't submit by Friday and submit on Sunday for the first time, I won't grade the late submission. 
6. Going back to the Rasputin handout, since we are working on passive voice these days, I would like you to read the biography carefully and identify the different types of passive voice. A good summary of the different ways passive voice appears is found in this handout. So your job is to highlight with any color the examples of passive voice in the biography and upload this handout to the Google drive folder: Second Listening assignment (remember the rules of submitting assignment to Google Drive> you are not allow to open or download your classmates' assignments). The submission of this part of the assignment is due Sunday before midnight.

You will be graded on the basis of the submission of the vocaroo recording, the participation in the blog, and the upload of the highlighted biography. 

Let me know if this is all clear.

Here's a classic that talks about Rasputin.