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Listen to live Lemmon SD radio on Radio Garden

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An excellent way to practice your pronunciation at the same time as you read and listen to a story.

You can create an account for free. There, you can access for free some of the books which aren't "premium".

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LingoClip - Enjoy learning languages with music

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Discover a new and fun way to learn English and other languages by filling in the lyrics of your favorite songs.

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Excellent website to listen to words in context.

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Cuando las palabras suenan diferentes en forma aislada y en una oración, busque la pronunciación primero en un diccionario, luego use https://es.youglish.com

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This is the same website I published on Classroom to improve your pronunciation, reading, listening, vocabulary and grammar.

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Here you can watch and listen to extracts of different videos to practice your pronunciation.

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how to improve english accent and pronunciation

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how to pronounce english words correctly with audio

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Free Online English Pronunciation Dictionary | Howjsay | Learn to Pronounce English Words | Howjsay

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Learn How to Pronounce English Words | Natural Recordings by Native Speakers

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Con la guía de pronunciación en Inglés de Forvo aprenderás a pronunciar palabras como un nativo

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I won't spend much time introducing this post, mainly because today is one of these days when the muse has decided to leave me.

Perhaps you're wondering what else you can do to pass your listening test with flying colours apart from doing every single listening comprehension exercise in your student's book and all the ones in the workbook. I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel, but here are a few things you might want to try.

1.Read a few tips and put them into practice. Students often complain that despite grasping the main information content of the recorded material, they sometimes seem to be unable to provide the right answer and this leads to frustration.

Getting a high mark in a listening comprehension exercise requires practice, lots, and also knowing a few tips. The most common types of listening exercises are Blank Filling and Multiple Choice and there are a few handy hints on how best to deal with them that you might want to read. The tips below aim at teaching students to listen effectively to enable them to select the information they require from what they hear.
2.The obvious. Find a good listening site with plenty of listening exercises to choose from.
One of the sites I have been recommending my students lately to practise Listening is Ingles en Aviles, a fantastic blog aimed at B2 (upper-intermediate) and C1 (advanced students) where you'll find lots of listening comprehension exercises to choose from.

Can I also suggest my own Listening section?
3. Listening to Vaughan radio
Vaughan Radio is a live radio station broadcasting from Madrid, Spain that provides listeners the chance to improve English language skills. So while you're at home, maybe cleaning or ironing and bored to death, you might want to give it a try. From time to time you'll hear some Spanish words to help Spanish listeners, but most of the time the show is in English and really worth listening to.

to listen on the computer. Alternatively, you can download the app on your smart phone. Type Radio Vaughan in the search box to download the app. My favourite programme? "The show with no name".
4. Watching series.
Here, I would recommend ororo.tv. What can ororo.tv do to help you improve your English? What will you find on this website? An amazing number of TV shows and films in their original versions and with subtitles in English. Right now, I am hooked on the Big Bang Theory, an American sitcom about four young scientists, but surely you'll find attractive alternatives here to suit every taste and mood.

5. A new web tool: Youglish.

A very interesting tool to help you with your pronunciation and your listening is Youglish. In the search box, type the word or expression you want to hear in context. Youglish provides you with videos, from You Tube, where the word/expression is spoken by real people and in context.

In case you're wondering, this is not a sponsored post. It's just a few recommendations from a humble teacher trying to help students by sharing some useful links.

Thanks for reading!

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Five Different Ways to Practise your Listening Skills.

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I won't spend much time introducing this post, mainly because today is one of these days when the muse has decided to leave me.

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Here you can find 10 websites to practice for listening tests.

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So what do you do to practise listening for exams?

Growing up, I never had the opportunity to do any extra practice to improve my listening skills. We didn't have the Internet and the thousand possibilities it offers to learners of any language nowadays. The teachers had an old tape player that sometimes stopped and started on its own and old tapes that ended up sounding distorted and most of the times unlistenable so if you wanted to get better at listening, you just listened to the radio and struggled to understand the lyrics and sing along. Not that I ever complained. That was the perfect excuse to listen to music while claiming to be working hard. I have to say that my father never bought it!

So, exams are just around the corner and I know you're beginning to freak out. Don't worry! Here I am, coming to the rescue!

These are, in my opinion, the best sites with quizzes to practise listening comprehension. In no particular order.

TALK ENGLISH

Levels: three main levels (beginner, intermediate and advanced)

Pre-listening /Post-listening activities: no

Transcript: yes

Audio Download: no

What I like best: it has some other listening activities like dictations or listening based on pictures for lower levels. It also has a section dedicated to advanced students with a story and some comprehension questions. See here

What I don't like: In my opinion, the "listening" categorised under "advanced level" is far too easy.

BRITISH COUNCIL

EDTED LESSONS WORTH SHARING

Levels: advanced

Pre-listening /Post-listening activities: all the lessons have three parts : watch, think (where you can do the comprehension exercise) and discuss (post-listening questions)

Transcript: no, although most lessons are on youtube, and you can watch them with subtitles

Audio Download: the videos are on youtube, so they can be easily downloaded

What I don't like: the audio is not sorted by level and although most of videos are for advanced students, some of them are much easier than others so I would say that they are suitable for B2 students and higher. You need to register although it's free.

Extra: you can also create your own lessons

ESOL COURSES

url: http://www.eslvideo.com/index.php

Levels: five ( from beginner to advanced)

Pre-listening /Post-listening activities: no

Transcript: not always

Audio Download: the videos are on youtube, so they can be easily downloaded

What I don't like: anybody can create a listening quiz so it might contain mistakes

Extra: You can create your own quiz

BREAKING NEWS ENGLISH

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/index.html

Levels: seven levels

Pre-listening /Post-listening activities: both

Transcript: yes

Audio Download: yes

What I like best: you can listen to the same piece of news at different levels and the news can be read at different speeds.

Extra: Sean Banville's also runs eight other sites, check them out here

RANDALL'S ESL CYBER LISTENING LAB

Levels: three levels ( easy, medium and difficult)

Pre-listening /Post-listening activities: Both

Transcript: yes

Audio Download: No

What I like best: the post-listening activities and the vocabulary section ( see here) where you can learn how to pronounce words associated to different topics.

LYRICS TRAINING

Levels: four ( from beginner to expert)

Pre-listening /Post-listening activities: no

Transcript: any lyrics site will have the lyrics for the song

Audio Download: the videos are on youtube, so they can be easily downloaded

What I like: it's fun and a different way to approach listening exercises.

Extra: You can create your own exercises (beta).

Check also:

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10 Best Free Listening Websites with Quizzes to Practise for Listening Exams

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B1 Writing

B1 is one of the CEFR levels described by the Council of Europe.

This page will help you practise for the PET and PTE exams

Sentence transformations (music)
For each question, complete the second sentence so that it means the same as the the first sentence.

Sentence transformations (rain)
For each question, complete the second sentence so that it means the same as the the first sentence.

Short message
You have lost your jacket. Write a notice to put on the wall in your school.

Email
Your family is visiting London next month. You have an English pen friend called Zara who also lives in London. You would like to meet her when you go to London.
Write an email to Zara.

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B1 is one of the CEFR levels described by the Council of Europe. This page will help you practise for the PET and PTE exams Sentence transformations (music) For each question, complete the second sentence so that it means the same as the the first sentence.

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A website to practice listening exercises.

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Practice listening exercises that will help you prepare for your English exam at B1 level

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El Refranero multilingüe contiene una selección de paremias españolas populares, principalmente refranes y frases proverbiales, con su correspondencia en varias lenguas (alemán, catalán, francés, gallego, griego antiguo, griego moderno, inglés, italiano, portugués, ruso y vasco). Se trata de un refranero multilingüe único en el mundo no sólo por esta combinación lingüística sino también por la información aportada para cada paremia española: sus posibles variantes y sinónimos, así como el hiperónimo y los antónimos paremiológicos; también se indica la idea clave y el tipo de paremia, las fuentes y una selección de contextos. Igualmente, se incluyen el significado y observaciones tanto léxicas (aclaraciones formales o de contenido de algún vocablo, por estar en desuso o por ser un arcaísmo) como culturales. Las correspondencias van acompañadas de la traducción literal, las posibles variantes, además de sinónimos y antónimos, fuentes y contextos.

Los objetivos de este refranero son difundir el español a través de los refranes, facilitar la enseñanza/aprendizaje del español como lengua materna y extranjera, proporcionar un instrumento de consulta a los traductores y promover las investigaciones sobre la sabiduría popular.

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Página principal del Refranero multilingüe del Centro Virtual Cervantes, proyecto que recoge refranes y frases proverbiales en español con sus equivalentes en alemán, catalán, francés, gallego, griego antiguo, griego moderno, inglés, italiano, portugués y vasco.

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English Spanish Dictionary (Granada University, Spain)

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Colección de palabras y expresiones en inglés y español, tanto de carácter general como referentes a diversas disciplinas, que he encontrado en mi vida personal y profesional en los últimos 50 años. En la actualidad, cuenta con más de 120.000 entradas, con un incremento anual de 5.000 entradas.

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English to French, Italian, German & Spanish Dictionary - WordReference.com

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Free online dictionaries - Spanish, French, Italian, German and more. Conjugations, audio pronunciations and forums for your questions.

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English | LDOCE

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Longman English Dictionary - the leading dictionary for learners of English of all levels: definitions, idioms, examples and more.