Do you like reading? Have you read the best-seller “The historian” by Elisabeth Kostova? Here is a nice place to listen to the authors talking about their books.
Category Archives: Listening
What makes a good friend?
You can expect to make 363 mates during your life but you’ll only be able to call six of them your true friends, a survey has found.
Ten thousand people were quizzed to find out how we make and break friends.
The results showed that most of us will end up with a circle of about 30 close friends, with six of them being the ones we tell our innermost secrets to.
But what are the characteristics of a good friend? and Are you a good friend to your mates?
1.Please, e-mail me and let me know your views on this issue .
2. Watch Queen’s live performance of Friends will be Friends and click here to do some exercises on this song and also some speaking practice
Another cool website for students
and yet another one! this time from the mighty BBC. Again , I’ve chosen this one to help you practise pronunciation, reading and above all, listening. Hope you enjoy it!!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/
Adele
This is what I’m listening to these days.
Adele is, according to the BBC’s Sound of 2008 list, the most promising new music talent in UK. Her debut album is called 19 telling us about her age and it topped the British charts this year. In a way she sounds very much like her classmates Amy Winehouse and Kate Nash and she went to the same performing school in South London.
And now… fancy listening to her performing live (Adele_Chasing Pavements) ?
Or would you rather do a listening with this beautiful song ? Yes? Click here
Practise reading and listening
If it ever entered your mind I was going to let you go on holiday without recommending some websites for you to keep on learning, then you don’t know me at all. That’s the first cool one I’ve bumped into, some others will follow.
The purpose of this site is to help adults improve basic skills like reading and spelling using real-life stories on topics of interest to adults.The stories are based on real life situations of interest to adults.
Pick a story to hear the story, click the “Listen” button below the story. When you are done reading the story, click the “Next” button to start doing some activities based on the story .