6 Excellent Free Sites to Practise Reading Comprehension It’s been too long since I’ve written about improving reading skills. Last time I posted about sites to help you practise reading comprehension was in May last year. Way too long. The truth is that doing reading comprehension activities in class takes time, especially if we are talking about long texts with an amount of difficulty, and very often this is one of the tasks we give students as homework. On the other hand, I am one of those teachers who think reading aloud in class is a good exercise. Reading aloud fluently not only helps to improve the reading ability, but also oral expression.It gives students a chance to focus only on fluency, pronunciation and intonation as they don’t need to worry about grammatical accuracy.It gives teachers a nice opportunity to correct pronunciation mistakes.It helps students enhance comprehension as pauses should be made in the correct places.Reading aloud is especially good for students who don’t feel very confident speaking English in public. 1.
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Audio for ESL/EFL: Listen and Read Along (Flash/MP3) YouTube Videos Science and Technology This is 4 minutes long and use the Teleprompter Player.'Caine’s Arcade' Video Brings Fame to Creative Boy Words & Their Stories These are 5 minutes long and use the Teleprompter Player. American Stories The Tell-Tale Heart - Written by Edgar Allan Poe (Teleprompter) A Pair of Silk Stockings - Written by Kate Chopin (On YouTube.com)This is a playlist with 2 videos. (13:15) The Diamond Lens - Written by Fitz-James O'Brien (On YouTube.com)This is a playlist with 6 videos. (24 minutes) The Law of Life - Written by Jack London. President Obama Barack Obama's Weekly AddressesFor advanced students, we have a set of these. About "Listen and Read Along" These are all things that I adapted from material produced by the Voice of America (VOA). Some of these are in Flash, some are MP3 files played by a Flash player and some are hosted on YouTube.com.
Sounds Familiar? What you can hear You can listen to 71 sound recordings and over 600 short audio clips chosen from two collections of the British Library Sound Archive: the Survey of English Dialects and the Millennium Memory Bank. You’ll hear Londoners discussing marriage and working life, Welsh teenagers talking with pride about being bilingual and the Aristocracy chatting about country houses. You can explore the links between present-day Geordie and our Anglo-Saxon and Viking past or discover why Northern Irish accents are a rich blend of seventeenth century English and Scots. What you can do In addition there are interpretation and learning packages relating to the dual themes of language variation and language change within spoken English. In Regional Voices you can explore the differences that exist in spoken English as you move across the country, while Changing Voices gives you the chance to hear how English has changed in different parts of the country over the last fifty years.
Audio books mp3 : listen and download - read the text 2 sensitive ads are blocked on this site AUDIO BOOKS - MP3 text . Free audio books mp3 files to download for esl. Audiobooks :play audio, read or print text, download mp3 zip files. Custom Search 100 - CLASSIC AUDIO BOOKS 2- text audiobooks 100 classic audiobooks + mp3 + text + download videobooks select your page -> page 01 / page 02 page 03 / page 04 page 05 / page 06 page 07 / page 08 page 09 icon listen to full stories / icon browse chapters / icon full version at internet archive page 02: audioboosk 14 -> 26 14- Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift web page read or print the text Download mp3 zip = 313 mb 15-Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville web read or print the text download mp3 zip = 677 mb 16- Emma - Jane Austen web page read or print the text Download mp3 zip = 386 mb 17-Myths and Legends Greece and Rome web page read or print the text download mp3 zip = 313 mb 18- Dracula - Bram Stoker web page = internet archive read or print the text Download mp3 zip = 454 mb next page : books 27 -> 40
Free IELTS advice, tests and samples The test has four components – Reading, Writing, Listening, Speaking. You will receive a band score for each component as well as a global band score. You can download free sample test booklets with answer keys here. They are in PDF format, and will require the acrobat reader program on your computer to print them. Reading Writing Listening Download a sample section of a lecture for use with the listening test. Speaking You might also be interested in visiting this page for links to other free IELTS resources: IELTS LINKS
ESL Reading--Resources and Exercises ESL/EFL Teaching/Learning ResourcesReading See also links for Concordancing and Vocabulary Text-to-Speech Programs See also Hypertext Builders < -- Tom Cobb/Chris Greaves show how to link your own text to the 1-million-word Brown corpus and the online WordNet dictionary using sound. TextAloud MP3 < Reads text from email, web pages, reports and more, aloud on your PC. NaturalReader < -- reads (text-to-speech) in different accents and male or female (Text files, MS Word files, MS Internet Explorer Webpages, Adobe PDF files, Emails ReadPlease Plus 2003 < -- a fully-featured, easy-to-use, and natural sounding text-to-speech program that can read anything on your screen (as long as it can be copied onto the clipboard). Speedreading Eyercize< -- for speedreading of Extensive Reading ESOL eBooks (include 3 classic Ghost Stories) News:
Tiny Texts | Read, listen & learn a littleEnglish Confiture de Noël + étiquettes 27 novembre 2013 Confiture de Noël Millésime 2013 ! Les petits lutins travaillent dur chez moi. Ce week-end, ils ont confectionné la traditionnelle confiture de Noël :) La maison sentait trop bon !!! Comme d'habitude, plein de bonnes choses dans cette confiture : figues, dattes, pruneaux, écorces de citron, angélique confite, abricots, raisins et au centre, écorces d'oranges confites. Le tout est cuit dans un jus de coings où ont mariné toutes la nuit, des poires séchées : trop contente cette année j'ai trouvé de l'angélique confite ! Cuisson... Et après la déco des pots...maintenant dégustation !! Et si vous voulez aussi réaliser de la Confiture de Noël, la recette est ICI est mes étiquettes sont LA prêtes à imprimer. Bonne journée et à bientôt Psss, Psss : Assurez vous bien de récupérer 1,3 kg de jus de coings, sinon votre confiture sera béton !! 30 juin 2013 Occupée... Ma première fournée ayant déja disparu...j'ai recommencé ! A bientôt 28 avril 2013 Je déclare ouverte ... 23 novembre 2011 Aie !!!
Free ESL (English as a Second Language) Lesson Plans to Download • Teaching ESL/EFL This page was originally designed to share my materials with other English teaching assistants in France, especially those who have no experience in teaching ESL yet. I've also included worksheets that I used for private English lessons in France as well as some of the materials I used in my ESL classes in the United States. Feel free to use them as you'd like. Some of the lessons listed under the Assistant section can also be used for private lessons and vice versa. There is a page of English grammar if you need a review. Buy English as a Second Language Lesson Plans! Buy ESL Lesson Plans Book Recommendations If you are new to teaching English to non-native speakers, I recommend trying some Teaching English courses at Udemy and the following books: English Assistant in France Lessons Refer to the Teaching section of the Assistants Guide if you'd like a more detailed account of how I used these lessons in my classes, as well as links to other plans that I found online. Pronunciation
Marmelade d'agrumes C'est bientôt Noël et le cadeau qui fait plaisir par exemple aux maîtresses, aux collègues ou à la famille, c'est un pot de confiture maison ! Vous allez me dire, les fruits en ce moment... et je vous réponds : marmelade ! Donc j'ai pris 4 citrons, 3 pamplemousses et 6 oranges (plutôt bio mais sinon bien les brosser). On les coupe en tranche sans garder les bouts et les pépins. On met le tout dans une cocotte, on recouvre d'eau et on laisse poser 12 heures. Ensuite, on porte à ébullition une demi heure et on laisse refroidir et poser encore 12 h ou plus ! On pèse le tout (sans la cocotte) et on ajoute le même poids de sucre (environ 4kg) puis on fait cuire dans une bassine pendant une bonne heure (voire 2 compte tenu de la quantité) Mettre en pot et faire une jolie déco si vous voulez les offrir... Je publierai une jolie photo quand j'aurai décoré les pots, là pour le moment c'est brûlant !
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