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ESL Listening Comprehension Exercises: Movie clips to practice English SECTION 1: Movie Clips Learning through media (movies, music, etc.) is one of the best ways to learn a new language. The exercises below use movie clips to help you to better understand spoken English. Here's what you do: Click on the video you want to watch below.Watch the video, and pay attention to it! (You can pause and rewind the video.)Answer the listening comprehension questions below the video.Check your answers.

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Which bag should you use? - Luka Seamus Wright and Imogen The ironic history of plasticPlastic was first invented by the Belgian New Yorker Leo Hendrick Baekeland in 1907. Since then, this group of synthetic polymers has revolutionised human life. As its Greek name plastikós (πλᾰστῐκός) suggests, it is incredibly versatile and can be moulded into any shape or size. Moreover, it is heat resistant and insoluble. These features are captured by Baekeland’s choice of using the infinity symbol and slogan “The Material of a Thousand Uses” to sell his invention, which he called bakelite.

Video lessons In this video we will be showing you why we like How It Should Have Ended For Kids. We're focusing on two playlists: Silly Songs and Fixed Fairy Tales, with some practical ideas about how we use them in teaching young learners. Here's a link to an interactive video quiz at our site for one of the videos from the channel, and here's a link to the channel itself. Enjoy! Anna Csíky iSLCollective Teacher Trainer

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Is Google killing your memory? Watch these recommended TED-Ed Lessons How memories form and how we lose themThink back to a really vivid memory. Got it?