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Listen to articles about culture, science and famous Americans.

Sudoku

The Word 'Ain't'

Light Pollution

A Good Night's Sleep

Story: How to Build a Fire

Benjamin Franklin

Frank Lloyd Wright

 

Real English

Videos of real conversations, with subtitles.

You need RealPlayer.

What are the Americans like?

What are the British like?

 

ELLLO STeP

Articles to read and listen to.

 

ELLLO Situations

Conversations that practise situational English. Click 'Transcript' to read the words.

 

Audio English - Booking a Flight

Listen to and read the dialogue. Just click 'Play'.

 

Audio English - Renting a Car

Listen to and read the dialogue. Just click 'Play'.

 

The Learning Edge

This was designed to help native speakers in Canada with their reading.  Click on a story to listen.  You sometimes need to click on 'text' to read the script.  

 

BBC - Talking Business - Telephone

Speaking skills for Business English students.

 

 

California Distance Learning

An adult education site. Choose a topic, choose a story and then click listen at the bottom of the page. 

 

Real English

Videos of real conversations, with subtitles.

You need RealPlayer.

What are the French like?

What's your astrological sign?

 

Audio English - At a Doctor's

Listen to and read the dialogue. Just click 'Play'.

 

Audio English - Booking a Hotel Room

Listen to and read the dialogue. Just click 'Play'.

 

British Council - Listening Downloads

Stories by Chris Rose. Listen, read and do exercises.

 

Spotlight Radio

Radio programmes with shorter sentences and slower speech.

 

How to Stop Smoking

 

The Business

Interviews with people talking about their working life. From the coursebook by Macmillan.

 

 

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