21 Sept 2016

Practice online


1. These are interesting websites that you can use to improve your ability to understand talks and conversations in English:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/ --- British radio
http://www.voanews.com/ ---  American news (including videos)
http://www.esl-lab.com/ --- Audio and quizzes. Go to the "Difficult" section for advanced level.
http://www.elllo.org/ --- Tracks that include scripts and explanations of expressions.
http://www.audioenglish.net/ --- Dialogues, narrations, phrases, pronunciation and role plays.

2. To download podcasts:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts --- to download some radio programs and news, British English.
http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_directory.php --- to download some radio programs and news, American English.
http://voicesinthedark.com/content.php?iContent=50 --- to download stories.
https://catalog.librivox.org/search.php?title=&author=&status=complete&action=Search --- to download audio books.

3. Pronunciation:

http://www.howjsay.com/
http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/#

4. Dictionaries (which include pronunciation if you click on the icon):

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/help/phonetics.html
http://dictionary.reference.com/
http://www.wordreference.com/

5. Our website:      

http://eoiraimundodetoledo.es