Re: The Open Window assignment

[Anton I]

1. Does listening to the dramatic reading of the story help you understand the story better? Why or why not?
2. Does hearing the story cause you to enjoy the story more or less? Why?
3. Do you like the way the reader read the story? What did you like (or not like)

1. No. Actually the British accent of the narrator made some of the words to sound unclear to me, and it was easier to me to understand the story through reading.
2. Yes because it's nice to listen to dramatic reading and it helps to picture the story.
3. I liked the dramatic way in which he read the story because it made me to picture the story better in my mind, but I didn't like his accent that made some of the words to sound unclear to me.

The British accent? what kind of version of the reading did you hear? I didn't hear any British accent in any of the readings

[Yana S]

1.It Didn't help me to understand the story better, because the british annoing accent of the reader.
Instead of listening the story normally,i was listening to the accent and it was driving me crazy.
So I prefer reading the story by myself.
2. No it isn't cuse me to enjoy more, because i understand the story better when i picture the story and the characters and their voices in my head.
3.No i didn't, as i said previously, his accent make it difficult to concentrate.

I agree with Eran =]
I listened to the secong link.

[emanuel.Y]

1. Does listening to the dramatic reading of the story help you understand the story better? Why or why not?
2. Does hearing the story cause you to enjoy the story more or less? Why?
3. Do you like the way the reader read the story? What did you like (or not like)
about it?
1.Not really,I prefer to read on my own and and in this way i can image the situation with mysef and that make me understand the story better.
2.hearing the story didn't cause me to enjoy the story more because i hate the British accent it's very annoying.
3.I liked the dramatical way the reader read the story.But i didn't like his British accent.

I agree with Yana.S.
I listened to the second link.

[Jonathan]

1. Does listening to the dramatic reading of the story help you understand the story better? Why or why not?
2. Does hearing the story cause you to enjoy the story more or less? Why?
3. Do you like the way the reader read the story? What did you like (or not like)
about it?

Answers:

1. I think that the audio version of the story was quite nice. After the second reading, and listening to the recorded one, I understood it much better. The narrator's reading wasn't the best interpretation of the story bur still, it was fun to drink a cup of coffee and listen to ''The Open Window''.

[Jonathan]

2. Well, yes. As I mentioned before, the listening makes the story more understandable. There were parts that I could not get before the listening.

3.The reader made a nice job, except the accent. I know that British English is the original and the correct one, but sometimes, my ears just cannot stand the sound of it. I wanted to scream towards the guy from the speakers: ''In English, please!''.

[Ilia Altmark]

1. Does listening to the dramatic reading of the story help you understand the story better? Why or why not?
2. Does hearing the story cause you to enjoy the story more or less? Why?
3. Do you like the way the reader read the story? What did you like (or not like)
about it?

1. Yes, because the reading shows how Mr. Nuttel felt about the situation and after all it can be hard to understand some parts of the story without knowing exactly how the characters feel.
2. Hearing the story puts me in to the atmosphere of the story and makes me enjoy the story in another way.
3. The reader read with a British accent what was quite nice considering that the story happened in Britain.

[Dima]

1. Does listening to the dramatic reading of the story help you understand the story better? Why or why not?
2. Does hearing the story cause you to enjoy the story more or less? Why?
3. Do you like the way the reader read the story? What did you like (or not like)
about it?

1. No, because when I see the text in front of me I can understand it better.
2. Yes, because listening to the dramatic reading is more enjoyable then reading it.
3. I like the way that the reader read the story, because it get me into the atmosphere of the story.

[jenia buzilo]

1. Does listening to the dramatic reading of the story help you understand the story better? Why or why not?
2. Does hearing the story cause you to enjoy the story more or less? Why?
3. Do you like the way the reader read the story? What did you like (or not like)
about it?

1)No, because when I read the text in front of me I can understand it better.
2)YES. because listening to this music is more interesting then reading it and put me to the atmosphere of the story.
3)I liked the dramatical way the reader read the story, because of his british accent.