Create Dictations
Now Dictation also available for your favorite device with HTML5 This activity is a dictation, therefore it consists in writing exactly the text that we are given. It is important, while you are dictating, to give details of the punctuation marks (like comas, full stops, question marks, etc.) so that the correction can be exact and also to avoid any kind of misunderstandings. When we define the dictation, we introduce the title and configure some correction options: Sensitive at capital letters.Sensitive at accents.Sensitive at skips of the line.Number of attempts.
Chansons et poèmes anglais cycle 3
We are the World Trick or treat rap I've got the whole world The farmer wants a wife
Teaching Reading with Authentic Materials, ESL lesson
In real life, job advertisements are written to be read. In the classroom we can use them for developing reading strategies such as: - Skimming – a rapid glancing through the text to determine general content or a gist
Listening 5 minutes
Listening Lessons Dogs, Dogs, Dogs - Idioms and phrases using the word 'Dog'. Get the phone! - A listening exercise. Listen to the phone conversation and then answer the questions. Listening Exercise: The Birthday Party - A listening exercise.
The Selfish Giant (Oscar Wilde)
One of most beautiful and famous fairy tales by Oscar Wild. The story of a grumpy selfish giant and a little boy who teaches him about a happy life and an eternal spring. An inspirational story to make you think about how you are running your life. If you want to see it with subtitles, make sure you activate YouTube subtitles on the video. Every afternoon as they were coming from school, the children used to go and play in the giant's garden. It was a large lovely garden, with soft green grass.
ESL English Listening & Adult Literacy - News - Audiobooks - Songs - Radio Dramas
Three Stories by John Cheever The Swimmer - The Enormous Radio - Goodbye, My Brother John Cheever was an American novelist and short story writer, sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs". His main themes include the duality of human nature: the disparity between a character's acceptable social persona and their inner corruption, and sometimes as a conflict between two characters who embody light and dark, flesh and spirit. Many of his works also expressed a nostalgia for a vanishing way of life.
Listen to English around the World.
Click on any of the flags below to hear accents from some of the main English-speaking countries. Hear more English accents. One of the best ways of improving your English is to listen to radio news and discussion in English on your computer. Using the links below you can get instant access to English language radio news programmes wherever you are in the world, without a radio. Perfect for listening practice and improving your listening skills. You might also want to visit our Listening Comprehension Exercises page.
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
10 English jokes to make learning English fun.
Laughter is the best medicine Jokes are an essential part of any language and culture and are a great way of understanding the target language through the play on words and a culture’s sense of humour. The English Language is filled with witty, clever jokes that illustrate the play on words such as homophones, double entendre and puns like this: Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off? He’s all right now.
