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This is one of the school meals which Martha Payne photographed for her blog. She had carrot soup, pasta with meat and vegetables and more carrot, and yoghurt. Today we visit Scotland, to find out what a Scottish schoolgirl thinks of her school meals. And because the European Cup Football matches have reached an interesting stage, and poor old England have been knocked out by Italy, this might be a good time to learn a new football expression. Martha Payne is 9 years old. Martha is interested in the food at her school. Children in other schools, and in other countries, started to read Martha’s blog. And at this point, the bureaucrats who run the education system in the part of Scotland where Martha lives became aware of her blog. Martha’s headteacher told Martha the bad news, and Martha was sad and wrote a final blog post to say goodbye to her many readers. At this point, we will make a little diversion to talk about football. I like stories with a happy ending. Categories podcasts Tags

Listen to English and learn English with podcasts in English ► Level 1 For elementary and pre-intermediate students ► Level 2 For intermediate students ► Level 3 For upper intermediate students and above ► For teachers Lesson plans, teachers' information worksheets, how to find a podcast and much more! ► Pie plus Our monthly magazine with news, videos, information worksheets and our monthly competition. ► Extras Extra worksheet activities to support the podcasts ► Freebies Free sample worksheets for each of the three levels ► Travelogues Follow the pie team on their travels and learn English along the way Podcasts in English are not just listening activities for efl and esl students to improve their conversation. Many thanks to partnersinrhyme for the jingle on our podcasts and Philip Halling for the banner photo. Our partner sites: Do your homework with DoMyEssay and forget about tedious assignments once and for all! best app that writes essays for you hire PaperWriter to write a paper for me Try writers per hour when you need help with English essay writing.

Listen to English - learn English! - The podcast website for people learning English Listen A Minute: Easier English Listening and Activities Listen, learn and teach English with podcasts in English for intermediate learners and teachers There are more vocabulary activities related to these podcasts on the 'extras' page. 120 Cowboy country. Join Jackie and Richard with the cowboys, horses and shoot-outs (15 Oct 15) ► Download (1.59MB, 3min 29sec) ► Transcript(pdf 53KB) ► Worksheet & Answers (pdf 602KB)► Vocabulary tasks(pdf 131KB) This podcast goes with this video (or you can watch it here) ◼ Stop video 119 Fly the flag. ► Download (1.74MB, 3min 47sec) ► Transcript (pdf 53KB)► Worksheet & Answers (pdf 361KB)► Vocabulary tasks (pdf 91KB) Some great tips for when you're designing a flag: 118 Once in a blue moon. ► Download (1.47MB, 3min 12sec) ► Transcript (pdf 54KB)► Worksheet & Answers (pdf 64KB)► Vocabulary tasks (pdf 100KB) The worksheet for this song is on the 'extras' page: 117 Jaws. ► Download (1.79MB, 3min 55sec) ► Transcript (pdf 56KB)► Worksheet & Answers (pdf 96KB)► Vocabulary tasks (pdf 191KB) There is a creature alive today... 116 The old grey matter. 115 Baking soda. Some more great ideas we didn't know about:

Teaching Grammar through listening (English-as-a-foreign-language version) 1. Introduction In all of my posts on grammar instruction I have made the very important point that for grammar to be fully acquired it must be practised extensively through all four skills. However, this is not what usually happens, grammar practice occurring in most language classrooms predominantly through the written medium. Of the four language skills, the one that is always neglected in grammar instruction is definitely Listening. The parsing phase is the stage in the comprehension of aural input in which the listener recognizes a grammar pattern in a string of words and fits it to the surrounding linguistic context. In this post I intend to show how grammar can be modelled and practised aurally through highly impactful L.A.M. 2.L.A.M. grammar activities 2.1 Sentence puzzles Sentence puzzles like the one in Figure 1 below are a very effective way to teach grammar and syntax through listening. 2.2 Sentence builders 2.3 Sorting tasks 2.4 Listening hunts 2.5 Interlingual comparisons 2.6.

Teaching listening – example lesson world cup This post was inspired by a listening lesson I did twice with two different elementary level 1-1 students last week. It is based on the listening from Breaking News English which you can find here. I decided to do something different from what the lesson plan on the website suggested, and devise my own procedure, taking into account the 15 listening tips I wrote about last month: “Planning a listening lesson – 15 tips”, which try to take you beyond the standard CELTA approach. First, please read through the lesson plan below and identify which of the 15 listening tips I used when designing the lesson procedure. Lesson procedure Lead-in: Are you enjoying the World Cup? Listening for gist: Don’t worry about understanding every single word. Speaking: Do you share the speaker’s opinion? Relistening: What was difficult about the first listening? What new information did you learn after the second listening? Vocabulary: What words do you associate with football and the World Cup? Reflection:

Yes, you can learn English. - Simple English News Advertising: Listen A Minute.com: English Listening Lesson What is advertising? Is it ____________ truth or is it making things look better than they really are? ____________ lying? Companies pay a lot of money for adverts. Some of the ads you see ____________ magazines look like art. What is advertising? What is advertising? DISCUSSION (Write your own questions) Write five GOOD questions about advertising in the table. When you have finished, interview other students. Now return to your original partner and share and talk about what you found out. Write about advertising for 10 minutes. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

5 Storytelling Podcasts You’ll Love — adammclane.com Photo by Alyson Hurt via Flickr (Creative Commons) I’m a connoisseur of storytelling. I can’t get enough of the genre. Whether its a personal narrative, or non-fictional piece, investigative storytelling, or fiction– I love it all. As a communicator I study the method and mode of storytelling. This American Life – The granddaddy of them all. What are your favorite podcasts for learning storytelling? Related Language Learning Experts' Favourite Strategies in 2016 Language experts reveal their top language learning strategies in 2016 I can’t believe there are only a couple of days left of 2016! It’s been an interesting year in many different ways and I’m sure you guys have made a lot of progress in at least one area of your language learning. What’s a better way to celebrate the transition to 2017 than to gather advice from some of the most interesting language learners and bloggers out there. Agnieszka Murdoch, 5-Minute Language “That’s me! Mnemonics is a technique that involves comparing written signs to objects or even scenes. You can use this method to memorise meaning as well as pronunciation. Through using mnemonics, you create logical connections in your brain and the words you learn are less likely to disappear from your memory.” Make a good start in 2017 by downloading your free Learn Languages Like a Pro starter guide. Anthony Metivier, Magnetic Memory Method Angel Prétot, French Lover Agnieszka: Angel definitely has a good point there!

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