The TP Podcast , especially all the episodes called "Useful Language", is recommended for all of those who need to develop fluency and correction when speaking. The ESL Podcast is recommended both for Intermediate Students and for Y5 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 Y5's can use the ESL Café. More: At our section "Resources - Exercises" (top navigation bar) you'll find more Listening Exercises, including HotPotatoes. All the sections above undert "Audios".

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For B1 and B2: 2005 BBC news items
For A2: Elementary-Pre-Intermediate students

Podcast	Episode	Topic & Time	Activity/Exercise	Level
Better@English † US/UK Englishes	Cultural Differences 3	Excerpt of 1min something	Worksheet (2 pages, with transcript) Listen to the excerpt before, as many times as you need, then answer the questions.
ESL Podcast (recommended)	ESL Café, ep. 101	12' Honolulu, Hawaii	Notetaking - What did you learn about Hawaii?
Women's Hour (BBC)	Helen Mirren	10 min (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 p) - scanning Answers
Science Friday	April 6, 2007	2'30'' Converting blood types	Skimming
Living on Earth	Feb 2, 2007 Gorilla of Sea Level Rise	8' Climate Change	Scanning Fill-in-the-gap Worksheet (2 pages)
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
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
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 Fill-in-the-gap Worksheet (2 pages: 1 with exercise and one with key)
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.
Arts & Ideas BBC Radio 3	Guerrilla Gardening Intro Guerrilla Gardening interview	1' 12' 30''	Summary of intro Retelling of interview Outline of interview (with key words) Language you learned
Working on it
Better@English † US/UK Englishes	Junk Food (1 of 3)	Junk Food	Discussing these questions
Science Friday Podcast	2006 Science Highlights	2006 Science Highlights Some REALLY interesting information
Greenpeace	Deforestation Rainforest, tissue paper 2005	Kleenex: blowing away the forests