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Speaking and Listening Skills

PRONUNCIATION:
Words Stress and stress in Compounds: video & handout
Stress in Compounds (cont.); Sentence Stress and Rhythm: video and script
Rhythm (cont.); Prominence: video and script
Prominence (cont.); Student Debate: video and script

EASY LISTENING: (all computer-checked)
Families:
Colleen's Family | Dawn's Family |
Likes and Dislikes: Ebony's Likes and Dislikes | Sarah's Likes and Dislikes |
Introductions: Gopham Inroduces Himself | Filling in a Form |
Art's Self Introduction
What do you do?: Nancy's Schedule |
Peter's Day | Making Plans |Telling the Time |
Food: Ordering a Meal | Diet | Baking Bread
Shopping: |
How much? |

INTERMEDIATE LISTENING: (all computer-checked)
Politics:
Communism | Political Prisoners |
People: Refund | Visitor | Personalities | First Car Drive | Music | Camping |

Health: Doctor's Appointment |
Crime: Crime1 | Crime 2 |
Words in the News: an audio file and transcript of a news story that changes three times a week.
Holidays: A visitor in the night
Lifestyle: Diversity in California , Life on a Cotton Farm

Music: The Music I like | Our Singing
University Life: An unexpected refund | Taking my Children to College |
Around the World: Welcome to London (travel, shopping, cinema, work, eating out)
Fairy Stories (text reconstruction)

ADVANCED LISTENING: (all computer-checked)
News:
CNN Stories | Words in the News |
Around the World: Volunteer Work in Ecuador | Friends of Tibet | A journey from hell | A trip to Italy |
Music: Ukuleles
Science and Technology: Phone and Cars | Hollerin Contest | Timekeeping | Comets | Science Radio Archive (BBC)
Education: Ukrainian Higher Education | Problems with US education |
Health: European Attitudes to Smoking |
Crime:An inspiring reaction to violence |
Sports : Ultimate Frisbee | Flying your own plane |
Five short listening exercises: Future Plans, Favourite season, What would you do with a million pounds, Axel's holiday, Hesitation Devices 2 |
Stories: The Kingdom of the Lion , The Wolf and the Crane


Online Lectures: Smithonian Associates

Other BIG listening sites with many activities:
Easy Listening and Academic Listening
Randall's Listening Lab - (all computer-checked)
Michael Krauss Listening Page - all levels
Real English videos
Spotligh Radio programs with scripts
Environmental Issues: Living on Earth offers archives of all programs: Transcripts through August 21, 1992 and all story titles are available online.

SPEAKING
Cultural Debates online

Just Listen, Read and Repeat
Lyrics database

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Aknowledgement: The links on this webpage take you to many different addresses.
These webpages are a result of the hard work of many ESL professionals around the world.
You can check the authors at the bottom of each page.


Maintained by: Renata Setmajer Chylinski

 

 

 

 

 

 

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