Students of English as a Second Language are always eager to improve their listening skills. Many of them are even obsessed with the idea of doing listening comprehension activities as the only means to improve.
Fortunately, there are many other more interesting ways to listen to English easily. Today I would like to suggest you two sites that can help you with task.
If you want to listen to the radio, you could try the BBC, especially the Learning English section, where you can find podcasts, interviews, activities and many other things.
But if you prefer watching tv, you could try visiting the site TVGorge.com, where you can watch series online and for free. You have numerous options, depending on your preferences. I would recommend you watching Friends, of course, or How I Met Your Mother.
If you want to know more about listening, just click the tag you can find on the right column of our blog to discover other ways and links that could be useful for you.
How do you practise listening? Please leave your answer in the forum section.
This blogpost is aimed at those who need to know more about how to write formal letters. Well, Laura has written an interesting article in the blog for Avanzado. Please, read it and visit all the links included. There you have all you need to write formal letters.
Songs can help you with your English in many senses. With them, you can learn pronunciation, vocabulary, structures, communicative functions, etc.
I’ve found a very interesting activity you could do at home reading Nik’s Daily English Activities. This blog offers you different activities which are summarised in this list.
The activity I’ve chosen for you is about memorising songs. You can do it using two websites called YouLyrics and Memorize Now. In this article you have all the steps you have to follow to perform the activity.
As every Christmas Day, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II offers her Christmas Broadcast for the Commonwealth. This year’s main topics have been the economic downturn and the consequences of the war in Afghanistan.
As a curiosity, The British Crown has its own channel in YouTube, and it’s called The Royal Channel. There you can find videos related to all the members of the British Royal Family.
Hello, everybody! This week we’re seing how to write a story. That’s why I wanted to recommend you to read the article I found in Saro Rosales’ blog. Saro Rosales is a teacher at the EOI Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and she writes a blog for her intermediate students.
I also encourage to visit her blog on a regular basis because she publishes lots of articles that can be useful for you. In the tab “blogs” on the top of this page, you can find a direct link to her blog.
Now, if you want to know more about how to write a story, please read this article.
Today, you’ve heard a text about these two actors and their adventures riding motorbikes. If you want to know more about them, you only have to visit the wikipedia.
Today we’ve had Mr David O’Kane talking about universities in the UK. I hope you’ve learned a lot. If you want to see the slides presentation again, now you can do it.
You can leave your opinion on the presentation in the comments section.
20 years ago, President George H.W. Bush created the tradition of pardoning a turkey for Thanksgiving. This year, President Obama has pardoned his first one. Please, don’t miss it. It’s worth watching it.
The last Thursday of November Thanksgiving Day is celebrated in the USA. All families join together to have a special dinner where turkey is always present. This is the most important celebration of the United States. In this video you will read the origins of Thanksgiving. If you want further information you can visit the Wikipedia or the site of the History Channel.
Every week I encourage you to read our blog and to write a comment. But it’s worthless. You only commnet when I call it “homework”. From now on I would like to start a “tradition” or habit. As we are writing this blog for you, you should try to participate in it through your comments.
Every time you write a couple of lines here, you are practising your writing and obtaining a correction. Don’t you want to improve your writing skills? Then why not trying to write a comment whenever you can answer a question or leave an opinion?
It’s become a challenge. Let’s see how many comments this post obtains. You only have to answer this question:
How could you improve your writing skills? Could you share your ideas with us?
It’s curious, but every year I see that different students tend to make the same mistakes over and over again. Therefore I’ve created this presentation putting together the mistakes of previous students and the mistakes of this year’s students. If you want to check the other presentations, you can check Frequent Mistakes and Frequent Mistakes 2.
Anyway, read the following presentation and take notes. You can even download it if you want to.
Hello, everybody! I’ve been correcting your informal emails and I’ve noticed that you make many mistakes with “tell” and “say”. Surfing the net, I’ve found aninteresting article that might help you. It explains when you can or have to use one or the other. The article can be found in the site EnglishClub.com, where you can find many other articles, activities, etc.
200words-a-day.com
Please read it carefully if you want to improve your skills.
From now on you are not allowed to make more mistakes when using these verbs.
It’s Halloween once again, and we’ve all accepted this foreign custom, but… what do you really know about the history of Halloween? This short video taken from The History Channel will tell you the basic information you need to know.
As promised, here I leave you the presentation we saw in class to practise the pronunciation of these sounds.
Unfortunately, Spanish native speakers use both the sounds /b/ and /v/ for letters “b”and “v”. This makes that Spanish-speaking students of English have many problems making difference between these sounds. If you want to improve the pronunciation of these sounds you can check these video lessons taken from the BBC website.
If you want to practise the pronunciation of /b/, see this video.
If you want to practise the pronunciation of /v/, see this other video.
Finally, you can see this presentation again to practise these sounds in context.
If you take a look at the right side of this site, you’ll find a section called “links”. Well, there you can find direct links to the blogs of the other levels. I recommend you to take a look at them because they contain things that can be useful for you.
Hi, students!
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Eva Suárez
