English - Advanced. This blog is aimed at advanced students and is intended to be an alternative source of information (other than the textbook and the photocopies provided by myself). This blog offers some extra material for further practice. It also contains some of the video-activities and podcasts that have been used in our lessons.
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