PODCASTS

The first podcast, which I have listened was about the ways of success. The topic name was "What leads to success".It was really very interesting topic, which focus all my attention.

Richard St. John spend several years interviewing hundreds of successful people. So two people talk about Richard's presentation.

Really success depends on how you respond opportunities on your way. Not only innate talents but also practise, hard practise a the key of success.And I agree with speakers opinion that person can't be good at all things, he or she have to pick the thing,which they like and practise very hard.People have to work with passion, they have to love what they do. Successful people says that they work with love and motivation.They work hard, but they feel fun.

This podcast lasts 8 minutes. If you want to listen it, then go to http://www.betteratenglish.com/

It is really understandable and interesting podcast.The speech is quite slow, althought it was upper-intermediate level.

Another podcast was a little bit useful for avoiding grammar mistakes.The podcast was: "Grammar mistakes that make you look like a dork: its vs. it's"

The speaker said that not only english learners do mistakes but also people whom english is the native language. Particularly peole do mistakes when words sound the same but are wroted differently.
One of the mistake is confusing it's and its so speaker suggest several things to avoid this mistakes.
When you write, ask yourself if the it’s/its you’re about to write means it is or it has. If it does, then you can use the it’s form WITH an apostrophe. If it doesn’t make sense, then you need the its form WITHOUT an apostrophe.
The second thing you should do is use the find feature of your word processing software to search for all instances of its (no apostrophe) and it’s (with apostrophe). For each instance you find, perform the it is / it has test or the his-her-their pronoun test. If you take the time to do this, you will never risk turning in piece of writing containing this dorky grammar mistake.
This podcast was from the same site as the first one.This listening was advanced level and sometimes it was harder to understand than the first one.Also this topic was not so interesting as the firs but it was more useful for grammar skills.