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Listenwise - Lesson Plan: The Art of Michelangelo

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James talks about what he would do if he was given a million dollars.

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Listen as a group of people talk about what they would do if they had a million dollars.

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Sarah talks about disciplining kids in public and how it is with her children. ESL students and teachers can access free listening lessons that come with audio, script, quiz and vocabulary support.

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Tim talks about special shoes he uses to get around when snow trekking.

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a bit of

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I like a bit of Indian Culture

The phrase a bit of means a small amount or a little of something. Notice the samples.

1. I enjoy a bit of red wine with my pasta.

2. Su Hee spent a bit of time abroad so her English is better than mine.

for instance

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I'm really interested in for instance

The phrase 'for instance' has almost the same meaning as 'for example'. Notice the similarity.

1. I love to watch team sports, for instance football and basketball.

2. Ren wants to study abroad, for example The U.S. or Canada.

fascinated by

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I am fascinated by the ancient history

We are fascinated by someone or something that we think is very, very interesting.

1. Here are 2 examples. My sister is an art student. She's fascinated by French impressionist painting.

2. Visitors to the Grand Canyon are always fascinated by its size.

I hear

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I hear the scuba diving there is really good

We use the phrase 'I hear' to talk about information we have learned from other people or other sources such as TV, magazines, the internet, etc. The information can be serious or sometimes just gossip. See the samples below.

1. I hear you passed the English test last Friday. Great work!

2. I'd love to visit Bali. I hear the beaches are beautiful.

seems to + (verb)

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it seems to have a good mixture of beaches and mountains

When we think something is true but we are not sure, we use the phrase 'seems to' Here are two examples.

1. Ellen seems to be happy with her new job.

2. Our new teacher seems to be a little serious. He never smiles.

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a bit of Your browser does not support the audio tag. I like a bit of Indian Culture The phrase a bit of means a small amount or a little of something. Notice the samples. I enjoy a bit of red wine with my pasta.

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Todd: Shona, do you have any talents or interests like art or music or cooking?

Shona: Yeah. Actually, I really, really enjoy art. I like to sort of study different artists and look at art from the past, but I also paint myself so I like to go to art galleries and exhibitions and get inspiration for my own work.

Todd: That is cool. So, speaking of artists, what are three artists that you really like?

Shona: OK, well, my first all-time, absolute favorite artist is a guy call Fred Tomaselli. He's this American guy, and he's only been painting now, or making art for like maybe like eight years or something. He's quite new, but his paintings are like so amazing. He will like build up an image, like over layers. OK, so he'll have ten layers built on a canvas. He'll have layers of red in, but sandwiched in between them, he will like create an image, like a collage if you like made of different things, so he will include like dried flowers, like flowers cut out from magazines. He will use images of the human body taken from like magazines or whatever. We will also use like pills, like pharmaceutical drugs and stuff, like sort of all smashed up and he'll use them and he'll create these amazing like 3-D images, like over these like layers that are all built up so you're standing in front of it, and they're big. They're like seven-foot by four-foot and it's just amazing. It's so like 3-D and it makes such an impact. The images themselves will be of things like maybe birds, maybe like he's done human images like Adam and Eve, like in the Garden of Eden, and he's done things like this drummer cause he's like really influenced by like music and American Punk music, so he's got like a drummer with like six hands like all going to different drums and they're just the most amazing thing you've ever saw in your life, so he's like my absolute favorite artist, and I also really like.... I like Edvard Munch who is a Norwegian artist and he does like... and he's like incredibly famous, and he does like kind of like skewed images of like... his most famous is called "The Scream" and it's like a person with like his screaming obviously. There's a bridge in the background. It's all very colorful.

Todd: Right. That's the one that was stolen recently, wasn't it?

Shona: Yeah, it was. It was stolen. Yeah.

Todd: Did they get it back?

Shona: They did. They got it back. They found out who done it, so it's back where it belongs in the museum. Yeah.

Todd: Was the painting damaged?

Shona: I don't think it was, no. It was a professional, like it was stolen by someone professional who was like hoping to sell it on the black market, so it wasn't that damaged.

Todd: Yeah, you would think it would be hard to sell.

Shona: I know, exactly but then people would know it was stolen but they'd want it so badly they'd pay the price for it.

Todd: That is an amazing painting. So, anybody else?

Shona: Yeah, I've got like... there's loads of artists I love. There's also this guy called Stuart Davis who is another American, and he was very famous kind of in the 1950's so he done kind of like commercial like paintings, drawings for different things like Lucky Strike is one of his famous ones, where he's like done a commercial for the cigarettes, Lucky Strike. He uses like very bold colors. It's kind of like a transfer over from the Pop Art like era and he uses lots of different images like built on top of one another, like it's kind of chaotic to look at but that's the kind of art I like because you can like dissect it and there's lots of different things there to look at which I think is the most fun thing about different art.

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Ruth and Akane role-play a scene in an art gallery.

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Yuri talks about the process he goes through in making a painting.

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very lean

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Jeff is very lean and fit.

Someone who is 'lean' and fit, is slender and healthy, without extra fat. Notice the following:

1. I was lean and fit at university, but not anymore.

2. The swimmers were all lean and fit.

disciplined person

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To become fit, you need to be a disciplined person.

A 'disciplined' person does things they should do, like homework or exercise, even if they don't want to. Notice the following:

1. He's not a very disciplined person.

2. I wish I were a more disciplined person.

pillar

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One of the pillars of staying healthy is to have discipline.

A 'pillar' is a very important part of a group, system or idea. Notice the following:

1. He's a pillar of the community

2. Freedom of speech is a pillar of American culture.

strenuous

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Your exercises don't have to be strenuous.

'Strenuous' means physically difficult. Notice the following:

1. Yoga is slow but strenuous.

2. It was a strenuous hike.

instead of

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Ride your bicycle to work instead of taking the subway.

When we have two choices, we chose one 'instead of' the other. Notice the following:

1. I'm not in the mood for a movie. Let's go dancing instead.

2. We don't have Coke - would you like Pepsi instead?

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very lean Your browser does not support the audio element. Jeff is very lean and fit. Someone who is 'lean' and fit, is slender and healthy, without extra fat. Notice the following: I was lean and fit at university, but not anymore. The swimmers were all lean and fit.

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Jules: Hey Nathan, do you go to the gym?

Nathan: Yes, Jules. I do try to but I'm a bit, I don't know what the word is.

Jules: Lazy?

Nathan: Inconsistent. No, thanks very much.

Jules: What do you do at the gym? What do you actually do?

Nathan: What do I do at the gym? I try to work on specific back and lower back muscles but it's quite difficult.

Jules: On a machine or?

Nathan: Well that's the unfortunate part is that the gym that I go to doesn't have a proper barbell so most of it's machine work or...

Jules: Bar bell, is that a thing you lift?

Nathan: Like the big long bar, all the muscle dudes kind of use.

Jules: I don't know much about that kind of stuff.

Nathan: But there's enough and then I usually do like forty five minutes of different lifts and then about an hour kind of stretching afterwards. But, yeah, I don't like the gyms so much, you know.

Jules: Why not? What don't you like about gyms?

Nathan: Number one, I get paranoid.

Jules: Do you?

Nathan: If there's like really muscly guys there or something. I'm like...

Jules: Paranoid or self conscious?

Nathan: Self-conscious maybe yeah. And then the other thing is I find that some gyms are not really gyms. They're just socializing places.

Jules: I guess that if that's the only function, you become a member, you hang out.

Nathan: You sit on a machine that everybody else wants to use and you talk for forty five minutes.

Jules: Ah, I see.

Nathan: And then...

Jules: You have some peeves about the gym do you?

Nathan: Yeah, and then I'll go up to the guy or the girl who's sitting and just chatting and I say do you mind if I use this machine and then they start using it. I'm like arrrr.

Jules: Machine hogs?

Nathan: Yeah. But the thing is you have to, you want to keep your muscles warm so you want to go in a kind of a set routine and if you skip, say you start off with your lower legs and you work up through your body, for example, you want to keep like the next set of muscles around it warm but you can't do that if the machines or the weights you want to use are hogged.

Jules: You have to sit around and wait?

Nathan: Yeah and then you have to miss that out so that kind of drives me nuts.

Jules: I don't really understand machines. I've never really used a gym machine before.

Nathan: No?

Jules: No. If I go to a gym, I go to the studio and done some kind of workout.

Nathan: Yeah.

Jules: I like classes. I like classes to music where you can jump around and dance in front of a mirror.

Nathan: Yeah, aerobics?

Jules: Yeah, those kind of things, yeah.

Nathan: But you're like a yoga teacher so...

Jules: I'm a yoga teacher, yeah. Actually I've never done yoga in a gym. I know that a lot of gyms now offer yoga classes because yoga classes are really, really popular.

Nathan: Yeah.

Jules: And I guess it's a good partnership with muscle work and stuff if you want to stretch out.

Nathan: Great.

Jules: But for me, yoga is much more philosophical and much more about relaxation and meditation and far more about your inner world, and the gyms don't seem like the right environment for me to practice yoga.

Nathan: Right.

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Jules: Hey Nathan, do you go to the gym? Nathan: Yes, Jules. I do try to but I'm a bit, I don't know what the word is. Jules: Lazy? Nathan: Inconsistent. No, thanks very much. Jules: What do you do at the gym? What do you actually do?

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Sarah and Peter talk about making the transition from paper books to digital books.

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Sarah and Peter talk about some books they like and their love of reading.

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by comparison with

Athletes do make too much money just by comparison with other professions, for example teachers.

Above the speaker is comparing the amount of money that professional athletes make compared to teachers. You can use this phrase to specifically compare two things. It is also common to use the phrase 'in comparison with.' Notice the following:

1. Tiger woods is poor by comparison with Bill Gates.

2. The moon is very near by comparison with Mars.

portray

They're portraying their image publicly.

To 'portray' something means to present it. In this case it is referring to how athletes present themselves to the public.Sometimes how someone is portrayed and what they are in real life are two very different things. Here Rina thinks that athletes should be paid for having a public image. Notice the following:

1. Rappers like to portray themselves as bad, but that's not always true.

2. The public image he portrays is far different from reality.

reap the benefits

They reap the benefits.

To 'reap the benefits' means to enjoy the results of one's hard work. Notice the following:

1. Save money now and reap the benefits later.

2. He reaped the benefits of his hard work with a vacation abroad.

the bottom line

The bottom line is that so many people watch their games.

There can be many opinions about the same thing. 'The bottom line' is the conclusion or most important thing that you should remember. Notice the following:

1. There are many things you can do to improve your health, but the bottom line is, eat less and exercise more!

2. When learning English, grammar is important, but the bottom line is to understand and be understood.

revenue

They bring in a lot of revenue.

'Revenue' is money that you earn from working or investments. Athletes are very important to how much revenue a sports team will earn. Notice the following:

1. Beckham is expensive, but he earns a lot of revenue for the team.

2. Because of a losing season, team revenue is down for the year.

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Listen to six people discuss what technology will become obsolete in the future. Students can learn natural English by listening to six people from around the world share their feelings about the same topic. This lesson comes with a video, quiz, script and vocabulary lessons.

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Mike talks about a good work out routine for building arm and torso strength.

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Simple Present vs. Present Continuous - Live worksheet

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Simple Present vs. Present Continuous - Live worksheet

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Past Continuous -I Was Taking a Bath- worksheet

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A dad tells how to bake cookies with his children.

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A 'treadmill' is a large exercise machine that we can run on while staying in the same place. It's a common piece of equipment at most fitness centers. Notice the following: