Your attention please: Have a look at: [Audios - Podcasts - ] The TP Podcast , especially all the episodes called "Useful Language". They're recommended for all of those who need to develop fluency and correction when speaking. Then check out [Audios - Podcasts - EFL podcasts - ] The ESL Podcast is recommended both for Intermediate Students through Advanced students, especially those who make grammar mistakes when speaking/writing, and/or who don't listen to English almost every day and/or never speak English! Intermediate's can listen to the Dialogues in that Podcast and Upper Intermediate's and Advanced students can use the episodes in the ESL Café.

More: At our section "Resources - Exercises" (top navigation bar) you'll find more Listening Exercises, like B1 and B2: 2005 BBC news items; and for A2: Elementary-Pre-Intermediate.

Meaning of symbols: no symbol = you'll remain on this website; = external link, you need to click the back arrow to get back to this website; = opens an audio file; = opens a Word doc

Av2 2011-12 students should not do the exercises below before we do them in class. If in doubt, ask me.

In green what we did in class. In blue, we need to check: did we do it?

In yellow, coming up...

Podcast	Episode (audio)	Topic & Time	Activity/Exercise	Level
ESL Podcast	334 Hiding from the Police	15'? A story	Note-taking to expand language range, practice jotting down spellings, and jotting down key words for the re-telling of the story (mons)
Women's Hour (BBC)	Helen Mirren	9' (all: 14') Interview	Skimming and scanning Multiple-choice Worksheet (1 page) Answers
Women's Hour (BBC)	June 29, 2007	8' The Full Moon	Skimming: Fact or fiction? Fill-in-the-gap Worksheet (1 page) - scanning Answers
National Geographic NG News 2/2/2007	Stonehenge Settlement Found Can't be found on their website. No more free podcasts episodes (snif)	5 minutes	Skimming and scanning (to do week Jan 16 in class) Fill-in-the-gap Worksheet (2 pages: exercise + key)
Science Friday	April 6, 2007	2'30'' (7' in all) Converting blood types	Skimming What is the news?
National Geographic NG News 8/25/2006	Pluto no longer a planet Can't be found on their website. No more free podcasts episodes (snif)	1 minute	What did you learn about Pluto? Make a summary of this news item
FOR FEBRUARY EXAM PRACTICE IN CLASS
Living on Earth	Feb 2, 2007 Gorilla of Sea Level Rise	8' Climate Change Part 1 (2 min) Part 2 (3 min) Part 3 (3 min)	Scanning Fill-in-the-gap Worksheet (3 pages)
National Geographic NG World Talk 5/1/2007	Endangered languages Interviewing a linguist! Can't be found on their website. No more free podcasts episodes (snif)	First 8 minutes	Skimming and scanning Q&A Worksheet with Key (1 page) Follow-up: build a 3-min monolog based on what you learned
Here on Earth	Three Women from Jerusalem (2007)	2'34" Part 1 (bits)	Scanning. Fill in the gaps (1 page)
TED Talks	Eve Ensler (2004)	20 ' Happiness in Body & Soul	Notetaking to work out an outline later on - Teacher's Outline of EE's Talk (1 page)
TED Talks	Peter Gabriel	10' (all: 14') Witness (A human rights Project)	Skimming. Using the skeleton of meaning technique (noticing clearly pronounced words), noticing repeated words/synonyms/semantic fields to reconstruct meaning with those key ideas/words.
Better@English	Perfectionism & Procrastination 1 6'31" Perfectionism 2 7'45" Perfectionism 3 10'54"	Talking about perfectionism and procrastination	Learn to speak about this topic by listening several times. Print the transcript. As you listen, underline the sentences you wish to learn! Jot them down in your Useful Language section. Practice with a partner!
Arts & Ideas BBC Radio 3	Guerrilla Gardening 1 Intro Guerrilla Gardening 2 In street - his beginnings & beds Guerrilla Gardening 3 In studio - the book and his blogging	1' 4'30" 8'	Speaking: Summary of parts, Retelling of interview Note-taking: Outline of interview (with key words), Language you learned Video shoot: become a guerrilla gardener! Act it out in class - the interview!
ESL Podcast	English Café, 101	15' Honolulu, Hawaii	Jot down all the spellings and web addresses Notetaking - What did you learn about Hawaii?
Working on it / not doing it in class
Better@English	Cultural Differences 1 5'45" Cultural Differences 2 7'21" Cultural Differences 3 6'13"	Talking about cultural differences	Learn to speak about this topic by listening several times. Print the transcript. As you listen, underline the sentences you wish to learn! Jot them down in your Useful Language section. Practice with a partner! Worksheet 4 Part3 (2 pages, exercise + transcript) Listen to the excerpt before, as many times as you need, then answer the questions.
Better@English US/UK Englishes	Cultural Differences 3	Excerpt of 1min something
ESL Podcast	English Café 110	12' Becoming a teacher in the USA	Jott down all the spellings and web addresses Notetaking - What did you learn about requirements for becoming a teacher?
Better@English US/UK Englishes	Junk Food (1 of 3)	Junk Food	Discussing these questions
Greenpeace	Deforestation Rainforest, tissue paper 2005	Kleenex: blowing away the forests
Science Friday Podcast	2006 Science Highlights	2006 Science Highlights Some REALLY interesting information