Listening
Winter 2019
SpeechYard
Speechyard is a place, where English learners have a perfect opportunity to improve English and expand language knowledge.
You can watch famous films and music videos, read books, learn colloquial phrases by means of creating your own library, where you can train sentences you would like to know. You may also communicate with other English learners and find new friends all over the world.
Winter 2019
ESLvideo.com
This website provides educational resources for ESL Students to improve their listening, speaking, grammar, and vocabulary skills. The quiz activities and lessons are created by teachers and are free to use in class or at home, so it is a perfect resource for teachers too.
Winter 2018
English learning: Listen & Read
https://esl-bits.net/
- very useful web page
- there are thousands of audiobooks; short stories, novellas, dramas and songs
- you can choose between faster and slower listening speed
- you can find their classics, modern authors, intermediate and advanced materials
- There are exercises aimed to:
- Articles - you will read popular English fables and there is an empty space wherever an article is missing. After filling in, it checks it and if you have something wrong, you can try again. Then there is also a brief (but comprehensible) explanation where you should be using "a", "the", "an".
- Idioms, saying & slang - you can look for them by section or by a specific word. I have found this part very useful.
- Reading activities and test preparation - these interactive activities will help you read and understand English and prepare for reading exams.
Winter 2018
Ellen DeGeneres Show
I cannot say that I regularly listen to Ellen's shows but when I want to have fun English evening I find some of her best rated videos on YouTube and I am never dissapointed. She is a perfect enterteiner always capable of quick responses. I enjoy each and every of her shows.
Winter 2018
Ted Talks
TED (meaning Technology, Entertainment, Design) is an organization which has been hosting annual conferences since 1990. They even record it and post it online.
I love to watch them. Every single one is interesting, inspiring and it covers really wide range of topics.
Summer 2019
BBC Podcasts
https://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts
Again, very helpful web page when I want to practise my listening/pronunciation skills. You can choose from wide range of topics.
