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              Play and Learn at The Same Time!!!

   Nowadays we have more opportunities in order to achieve success in our study, because there are a large number of the resources for Independent Learning. You need to understand that teachers give you only a small part of the knowledge and your education depends on you and your affords. Independent Learning is absolutely free for everyone and it has a simple action plan. You just need to choose the most appropriate way to learn and to do analysis of you work. There are lots of programs of Independent Learning on any topics. Learning English is no exception, because more and more people begin to study English all over the world.

   I want to introduce you to the great way to learn English outside the class – Lyrics Training. And  I will describe my experience of using Lyrics Training. First of all it is very easy to use. You need to go to this website  and chose the language which you learn. If you want you can sign up. As for me I didn’t sign up, because it wasn’t necessary. Then type the name of your favorite song in English in the search string. There are a huge number of songs of different time and singers. After that there will be the video for this song from YouTube. Then choose your level. There are 4 levels: beginner, intermediate, advanced, expert. Then start to play this game. You just need to complete the lyrics as fast as possible by typing the missing words in the gabs. If you don’t make out any word or you don’t have enough time to type, the music will stop and start playing again. But time and number of attempts are limited. Also you can choose the game mode where there are not missing words and you can sing just like karaoke. After the video you can see the best results.

    Lyrics Training is one of the language learning websites, which will never bore you. On the one hand it is a game, but on the other hand it is a very useful exercise to develop your English. It’s very interesting comprehension game in which you play and learn English at the same. I liked that there were different levels. It means that everyone who have a basic knowledge of English can play and develop the comprehension of English and spelling. Also it is great that there is a big collection of music. But I think it would be better if after each song there will be some sort of analysis and recommendations to player. And sometimes the videos were slow to load. In general, I have positive impressions of this site. And I will use it in my study as additional activity.

http://lyricstraining.com/

To my mind this link http://lyricstraining.com/ is very  interesting. Firstly, because there are a lot of hits of music, which we are listninh every day on TV programs. Such sistem help to us improve our listening skills. Also, it help to us with our  grammar and we can without trouble memorize new words. This exercise does not take much time and it very funny. I advise you to use this link for you study of English.

Independent Learning

1.Date	2. Work done and resources used	3. Activity type	4. Location and Partner(s)	5. Time Spent From - To	6. Evaluation
1 Apr 14	Listened to different famous songs in English and filled 10% of all the random words in the song. (Level for beginners) www.lyricstraining.com	Listening and Vocabulary	Home No partners	21.00 p.m. – 22.30 p.m.	A very entertaining way of enriching our vocabulary. A test is in a game form, so it can be easily used by people at different age. Sometimes singers use colloquialisms which are known only for native speakers, it helps to learn spoken language. Also you can choose your favorite songs. And if you are a polyglot you can find songs in other languages. (For example Spanish). There are a great number of songs on this website. I really enjoyed such an activity very much.
2 Apr 14	Listened to different famous songs in English and filled 25% of all the random words in the song. (Intermediate level) www.lyricstraining.com			20.00 p.m. – 22.00 p.m.
4 Apr 14	Listened to different famous songs in English and tried to fill 50% of all the random words in the song. (Advanced level) www.lyricstraining.com			20.00 p.m. – 22.30 p.m.
5 Apr 14	Watch the video, Learn the words, Speak the video,  Quiz vocabulary http://www.englishcentral.com	Listening and Vocabulary	Home No partners	16.00 p.m. – 18.00 p.m.	A very interesting website with useful videos and tasks. At first you watch video, and then you learn new words by typing them into empty space. After that you speak the video and the computer evaluates your speech and gives you a result, so you can know you level of English (for example, B+). You can improve not only your knowledge, but also your oral speech. Videos contain lots of useful words which we can use in all the spheres of our life. And it isn’t boring. But sometimes you can have problems with downloading videos.