Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Tuesday, November 18, 2008




Your listening and speaking homework links. Here are some suggestions. All these poems and speech excerpts are around 2 minutes long. You ll have to choose just one to work on.

This is for Poetry lovers. I ve chosen four quite short poems.
Sydnee Stewart The Truth
Staceyann Chin And These Are Just Some Of The Things I Believe
Saul Williams When The Clock Strikes Me
Daniel Beaty Black Poets Truth Poets

http://www.blackvoices.com/blackhistory2007/poetrycafe/

This one is for those interested in having their conscience shaken up a bit and those who d like to know a bit more about black people in the USA.

Malcom X Who are you?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7iHxAwPhpU&feature=related

This is for the dreamers.

Martin Luther King I have a dream
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZLvSnr6s50

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Really useful visual tool to learn new vocabulary

http://visual.merriam-webster.com/

Friday, November 07, 2008

A1 students. Listen to the beginner's luck files!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.vaughanradio.com/RSS/CACH.xml
After a week dealing with job interviews here's a bit of extended practice on job opportunities for B2's.

http://esl.about.com/library/listening/bllis_job1.htm
http://esl.about.com/library/listening/bllis_job2.htm

These two listenings are taken from this page:

http://esl.about.com/od/advancedlistening/Listening_Comprehension_Exercises_for_Advanced_Level_English.htm
Comprehensive MP3 audio file collection with scripts. Over downloadable 100 files!!!


http://www.britishcouncil.org/professionals-podcast-english-listening-downloads-archive.htm