Food
Preserving Food 
Prepp Cycle 1
Food, Money and Climate
How to use
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Do the full dictations
- Do not look at the story. Write out the (whole) story as you listen to it. You will need to stop and start the audio.
- Listen again to check your writing.
- Check your writing with the transcript.
Write a summary
- Listen to the story. Do not write or read anything as you listen
- - When you finish listening, writ out the story in your own words
- Read the transcript and compare it to your story
Practise speaking
- As you are listening to the dictation, you can repeat it aloud to yourself in a soft voice
- If you want to, you can even record your own voice on the computer (using the applet below, repeating each phrase of the dictation
- Helps you practise fluency. You should aim to keep up with the speaker at his/her natural pace
- Helps you practise pronunciation. Aim to sound as much like the speaker as you can.