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Yellowstone National Park
English Level: Intermediate Listening – Yellowstone National Park Click here for the listening quiz In this listening Stephen gives us some information about the history and features of Yellowstone National Park in the USA. Transcript Yellowstone National Park was established in 1872. It is located mostly in the U.S.A. state of Wyoming, although it also extends into Montana and Idaho. Yellowstone was the first national park in the world, and is known for its wildlife and its many geothermal features, especially Old Faithful Geyser, one of the most popular features in the park. Native Americans have lived in the Yellowstone region for at least 11,000 years, but apart from visits by mountain…
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Bridging the Digital Divide with Free WiFi
English Level: Intermediate Listening: Bridging the Digital Divide with WiFi Click here for the listening quiz In this listening: The digital divide can be seen in rich and poor countries but also in rich and poor people within one city. New York City has a plan to give people from poor backgrounds access to the Internet by converting old public phones into free WiFi hotspots.
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Yeosu, South Korea
English Level: Intermediate Listening – Yeosu, South Korea Click here for the listening quiz In this listening: Students from Yeosu tell us about their city. Famous for being a tourist resort, the global community selected Yeosu as the host city for the 2012 World Expo. Featured image by: Mikhail Kim Learning Ideas from ESL Radio and TV Use the Internet to communicate with people Not long ago English learners could only use the Internet to communicate by typing emails or in a chat room. Now it is easy for most learners to use Skype or other VOIP to actually talk to other learners to improve their English. Memorize some songs or poems…
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What is the future of social media?
English Level: Intermediate Listening – What is the future of social media? Click here for the listening quiz In this listening Are social media programs like Facebook and Twitter causing social isolation, or are they just the next step in the way people interact with each other. This program looks at one answer to that controversial question.
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Chronic Diseases an ‘Impending Disaster’ for Some Nations
English Level: Upper Intermediate Listening: Chronic diseases Click here for the listening quiz In this listening: Voice of America tells us all about the threat of non-communicable diseases in developing countries.
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Globalization
English Level: Upper Intermediate Listening: Globalization Click here for the listening quiz In this listening: We look at the effects of globalisation on society, politics and culture, both good and bad.
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Aral Sea Before and After 2010
English Level: Intermediate Listening – Aral Sea Before and After 2010 Click here for the listening quiz In this listening: Simon Reeve’s film about the Aral Sea reminds us about the impact that human activity can have on the environment.
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The World Water Crisis
English Level: Upper Intermediate Listening: The World Water Crisis Click here for the listening quiz In this listening: This program looks at one the most important issues in the world today: the lack of clean water in developing countries.
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Car Factory Robots
English Level: Intermediate Listening – Car Factory Robots Click here for the listening quiz In this listening: A report about a factory that makes cars using hundreds of robots. There are even robots that check the work of the other robots! Amazing! Featured image by: GillyBerlin Pronunciation Pronunciation means the way we say the words. There is no one correct way of saying English words as the pronunciation of English varies from country to country and even from city to city within a country. But you can still improve your pronunciation by listening to native speakers and copying the way they say words. Listen to the native speakers on ESL Radio and…
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Richard Branson: Advice for Entrepreneurs
English Level:Intermediate Listening: Richard Branson: Advice for entrepeneurs Click here for the listening quiz In this listening: Richard Branson tells us that a company is a group of people.As a leader of people you have to listen, motivate, praise, look for the best.
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Our Life-giving Sun
English Level: Intermediate Listening – Our life-giving Sun Click here for the listening quiz In this listening: Stephen’s short film about the Sun highlights its importance for life on Earth and reminds us that nothing is permanent. Even the Earth and the Sun will one day cease to be. Featured image by: Surge1223 Transcript The Sun is the star at the centre of the Solar System. It has a diameter of about 1,392,000 km, over 100 times bigger than the Earth. Although the colour of the Sun is white, it often looks yellow because of the scattering of blue light from the Earth’s atmosphere. The Sun used to be regarded by…
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Students design graphic novel
English Level: Intermediate Listening – Students design graphic novel for social change Click here for the listening quiz Students of Stanford University in the USA have produced a graphic novel that tells the story of a man who survived both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings in 1945. The novel was published in October 2010. Featured image by: Jessica Abel Learning Ideas from ESL Radio and TV Listening for gist “Listening for gist” means listening for general understanding and is the opposite of listening for detail.. Often when second language learners listen to an English text they try to understand every word and then they find that they don’t really know what…
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English in Action: Test Design – an Holistic Approach
English Level: Advanced Listening – Test Design – an Holistic Approach Click here for the listening quiz In this listening Dr. Andrew Finch, with the help of his linguistics students, shows us how tests and the testing process can be humanistic, educational and even fun!
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Understanding Plagiarism
English Level: Academic Advanced Listening – Understanding Plagiarism Click here for the listening quiz Staff and students at York St John University talk about what constitutes as plagiarism, how to avoid it and what is expected in regards of good academic writing. Learning Ideas from ESL Radio and TV Keep a vocabulary diary When you discover a new word that you think might be useful in the future write it in a diary. Write the meaning, write the part of speech,write it in a sentence. If the word you want to remember was on ESL Radio and TV write the name of the program and the time where the word occurs e.g. 2…
