Listening+Practice

A great site from Abdelsalam: [|www.esl-lab.com] From Georgie: a4esl.org & eslcafe.com

Behind the News Lots of news stories with simple language - this program is aimed at school children in Australia. You can choose a story from the "video" page or search the archive (e.g. "taser", or "lyrebird"). Watch the program, take notes, listen again.... Then you can view the tapescript to check how accurate your notes are. The comments from viewers (on the right hand side) give some excellent examples of opinion language.

BBC LEARNING ENGLISH - WORDS IN THE NEWS BBC Link On this website, you can listen (and read) short news reports. Each audio report comes with a summary, a written text and a vocabulary list with pronunciation help. First, **read the summary** to give yourself an idea about the topic. Next, **listen to the audio report** a couple of times BEFORE you read the main text and try to make notes of the main points. Then, **check your notes** by listening again and reading at the same time. Finally, **make a note of any useful vocabulary**.

[|www.britishcouncil.org/professionals-podcast-english-listening-downloads-archive.htm] This URL will take you to the archive of sound files….choose one.These talks are mini-lectures given in standard international academic English.First, listen to the talk and make notes about the main points it makes.Listen again and write down as many details as you can.Click on the (script) icon.At the top of this page there will be a listening task. Try to do it.Then you can read the whole text and check your notes and answers to the task.The correct answers are at the foot of that page. [|www.agendaweb.org] The listening exercises are on the right hand side of the page. Choose the level you want to practise. You will see a list of stories – they are all short conversations. Choose one. First, click “text completion” to listen and complete the gaps. Click “show score” to see the correct answers. Then, you can click “listen and read” to see the script and build vocabulary

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com

www.ted.com This is a very short one to try: []
 * TED** is a site full of video lectures, on many different topics. Most of them have subtitles. You can search by keyword, e.g. health, economics

My Family (ABC 6pm weekdays) is a good comedy Best of Collectors (ABC 6:30pm weekdays) shows people and their interesting and strange collections
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