Listening Workshop!

I think that listening to dialogues or conversations made by native speakers is really useful, because you get used to English way of speaking. This means that you get used to different pronunciations and different accents, some of which are quite hard to understand - American and Scottish one, for example. Moreover each native speaker tends to speak very quickly and to mumble with another native speaker. That is what sometimes makes English conversations incomprehensible! Anyway I always keep in my mind what my teacher used to tell me - it's possible that you can't understand some English people because of their accent, but the important thing is that you speak a good English, so that you can make yourself understood by everybody.

The Sydney Opera House (Summary)

The Sydney Opera House is situated close to Sydney Harbour Bridge, in Australia. It is a huge building, instantly recognizable by its roof shells, that includes five theathres, five rehearsal studios, two main halls, four restaurants, six bars, and several shops. It was started in 1959 and completed in 1973, even if the completion of the building was initially expected in 1963. The final cost was also much higher than the one initially expected, $120 million instead of $7 million. The Sydney Opera House was inaugurated by Queen Elizabeth II on 20 October 1973 with a great ceremony, attended by millions of people.