This Week's Listening Idea

Fancy learning English through listening to good music? Why not check out this link, as suggested by Alica (NA1)? (Click on "jugar ahora) and select your level.)

This Week's Stories

In our Intermediate One classes, we've been looking at the theme of stories. Here is a collection of sacred stories from different religions of the world. It's a British Library Collection. Click here to access the link. Why not switch on the subtitles, too? That way, you can listen, read and learn new vocabulary.

Source: Ferlazzo

This Week's Listening Idea

Isabel from NI Two has sent us this exciting link to improve our listening and our minds. You can explore by subject; well worth a visit!

This Week's Listening Idea

Listen to News Regular listening practice based on the weekly news, with pre-reading vocabulary, reading, gap-fill exercise, comprehension quiz and answers. Each Tuesday EnglishClub publishes a short audio news report in easy English from the previous week. With this resource you can practise your listening, reading, writing and even speaking. Preview the vocabulary and read the gapfill text. Play the news report and try to fill in the blanks. Answer the comprehension questions by writing full sentences. Use the discussion question to write an essay or discuss the story with other students. Pretend to be a news anchor by reading each story out loud. Study the news story each week and watch your English skills grow! Click "show Answers" to view the full text of the story and check the answers. For more info, go to: http://edition.englishclub.com/category/listening-news/

This Week's Listening

From Liz.

Like to listen to your favourite song and read the lyrics at the same time? Click here.

This Week's Listening

This is a fun activity I gleaned from my colleague at EOI Santa Brígida. Liz has written:

"It is a great tool which has articles from the news and you can listen to these articles as many times as you want while you write and the tool corrects you. You do not have to download anything but you have to register on the site. It is definitely worth exploring."

Click here to explore.

Source: http://practiceenglishcreatively.blogspot.com/ 

This Week's Listening

It seems we all enjoy listening (and dancing) to music. But have you heard of Lyrics Training? It's an easy and fun method to learn and improve your knowledge of English through the music videos and typing the lyrics of the songs. Enjoy!

Source: Liz at EOI Santa Brígida

This Week's Listening

Your thoughts on 2010; your wishes for 2011?

Listen to how some passers-by on the streets of Washington, DC, many of them visitors from other countries, responded to this question.

This Week's Listening

Wedgewood Teapot

To what extent is drinking tea typically British? What is the historical backdrop behind this beverage? Find out by listening here. Print and read the transcript by clicking here.

This Week's Listening Suggestions

If you'd like to do some listening and reading practice, and learn how to do something useful at the same time, go to this excellent link sent to us by our lovely colleague, Natalie:

http://www.howcast.com/

You can find out about all sorts of things: how to brew a decent cup of tea, how to do the windmill, how to plan a romantic honeymoon getaway . . .

Serious listening practice needs to be done by almost everyone, I'm afraid, if we want to reach the standard required for EOI Advanced Two. Here are some excellent links:

http://www.vaughanradio.com/

http://www.examenglish.com/FCE/fcelistening.htm

http://www.examenglish.com/FCE/fce_listening_part1.htm

http://www.examenglish.com/FCE/fce_listening_part2.htm

http://www.examenglish.com/FCE/fce_listening4.html