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Your attention please: Upper Intermediate/Advanced students: Use the Talking People Podcast, its segment "Useful Language" 
to practice Listening & Repeating, to improve your fluency and accuracy (correctness). Skip the episodes for Elementary students! 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. There are more listening exercises at our section Exercises - Listening. 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
April 28, 2013: fixed the broken links to the audios. Thanks, Silvia! Please, everybody, let me know if you encounter more problems!
| 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 (uploaded audio coz' link kept breaking) |
do the first 9' (all: 14') Interview |
Skimming and scanning Multiple-choice Exercise (1 page) up. 2019Answers |
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| Women's Hour (BBC) | June 29, 2007 (uploaded audio coz' link kept breaking) |
8' The Full Moon |
Skimming: Fact or fiction? Fill-in-the-gap Worksheet (1 page) - scanningAnswers |
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National Geographic |
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) |
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| Science Friday |
April 6, 2007 (uploaded audio coz' link kept breaking) |
2'30'' (7' in all) Converting blood types |
Skimming |
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National Geographic |
Pluto no longer a planet |
1 minute | What did you learn about Pluto? Make a summary of this news item |
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| 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) |
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| 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 |
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| Here on Earth |
Three Women from Jerusalem (2007) |
2'34" |
Scanning. Fill in the gaps (1 page) |
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| 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) |
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| 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 |
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! | |
| Guerrilla Gardening 1 Intro Guerrilla Gardening 2 In street - his beginnings & beds Guerrilla Gardening 3 In studio - the book and his blogging |
1' |
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! |
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| ESL Podcast | English Café, 101 |
15' Honolulu, Hawaii |
Jot down all the spellings and web addresses Notetaking - What did you learn about Hawaii? |
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| 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! |
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| Better@English US/UK Englishes |
Cultural Differences 3 |
Excerpt of 1min something | |
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| ESL Podcast | English Café 110 |
12' |
Jott down all the spellings and web addresses Notetaking - What did you learn about requirements for becoming a teacher? |
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| Better@English US/UK Englishes |
Junk Food (1 of 3) |
Junk Food |
Discussing these questions |
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| Greenpeace |
Deforestation Rainforest, tissue paper 2005 |
Kleenex: blowing away the forests |
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| Science Friday Podcast |
2006 Science Highlights |
2006 Science Highlights Some REALLY interesting information |
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