Monday, November 17, 2008

LISTENING, PRONUNCIATION AND GRAMMAR

Here's a great new site that you should find to be very helpful. As always, look for other parts of the site and additional links. In this case you'll find them on the left side of the page.

ESL English listening quiz 1 - English pronunciation practice 1

Topic:
Emotions & Feelings 1Topic: Emotions & Feelings 2Topic: Emotions & Feelings 3Topic: Everyday Problems
Topic: Illness/ SufferingTopic: Apartment (Renting)Topic: College/University 1Topic: College/University 2Topic: College/University 3Topic: Shopping/ Mall 1Topic: Shopping/ Mall 2Topic: Cell/Mobile Phone

ESL English listening quiz 1 - English pronunciation practice 1

Topic:
Emotions & Feelings 1Topic: Emotions & Feelings 2Topic: Emotions & Feelings 3Topic: Everyday Problems
Topic: Illness/ SufferingTopic: Apartment (Renting)Topic: College/University 1Topic: College/University 2Topic: College/University 3Topic: Shopping/ Mall 1Topic: Shopping/ Mall 2Topic: Cell/Mobile Phone

Here are some brief movie clips (small parts) that you also might find to be interesting and helpful. Listen for pronunciation and word stress.

ESL Listening Comprehension Exercises: Movie clips to practice English ELL/ELT

On this site you can listen to a whole movie! Choose the # 1457 under the heading MOVIES to find a list and the # 284 under the TV heading for those choices. Listening without watching the movie can help you to focus on the sounds of spoken English.

listentoamovie.com

Finally, here are some short clips on the topics of usage, punctuation and grammar. The woman who is speaking wrote a famous book and she talks about that for a few seconds at the beginning of each part. remember that you can always listen to these again and again if you find one topic to be difficult.

http://www.grammarbook.com/videos.asp

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