Listening activities

Understanding oral English may be the most difficult activity for students. So, here is an interesting proposal to develop this skill "Lyrics Training" website where you will be able to fill in gaps and enjoy music and a video at the same time. 

"Lyrics Training is an easy and fun method to learn and improve your foreign languages skills like English through the music and lyrics of the songs."

 

Once you have chosen the song you want to listen to, select the "game mode" : beginner, intermediate or expert. 

Then a new window will appear with a YouTube video + incomplete lyrics. The picture below shows the song "My Heart Will Go On" from the movie Titanic ( it is so romantic!!! )

You have to fill in the blanks while you are listening to the song. You get instructions about how to use the tool and/or get hints to fill in the gaps by clicking on HELP (see picture below)

You can do the listening activity as many times as necessary. Remember: if you get a high scoring doing the beginner level, you can step to intermediate or experienced!

Activity  Go to http://www.lyricstraining.com/index.php, choose a song, do the fill in the gaps activity at the different levels, then tell us in comments : 

• Which song you chose 
• The reason for doing so
• Which was the level you felt more comfortable (beginner, intermediate, expert) 
• What  your opinion of this listening practise is 

Deadline: September 21st

I hope you like the proposal. See you soon, Nelba

Do you like movies? (listening comprehension)

Dear all:

In this post, I would like to show you a very interesting website where you can watch new movies and do listening comprehension activities (fill in activity). 

The website is called "Learn English Through Movies"
Click HERE to see what it  is about.


Task 1: Choose one movie and do the corresponding  fill in the blanks activity .


Task 2: Write in comments the reason for your choice.

Happy winter holidays!

Nelba

Module 6

Hello, students!

Welcome to this new post where we are going to begin revising and practising a grammar point:
 -ed/-ing adjectives.

As we did in the previous module, I want you to revise this topic in your book on page 148. Now you are going to check if you  really know which form is the most suitable in the following online exercise. Click HERE

You have also studied Extreme Adjectives Let´s read a blog post and do this fill in the gaps exercise.Click HERE 

I was surfing the net looking for listening activities about movie reviews and came across this interesting website: http://www.ecenglish.com/learnenglish/subject/Listening

You cannot complain! There is a varied list of videos (some of them are movie trailers!) with online activities (click on "Read more").

Oh, by the way Héctor from Adults 5A asked me for online classical short stories and here is the link! 

http://www.classicshorts.com/abc.html

I hope you will enjoy these activities and online resources. 
See you next month,
Nelba  :-)

DEADLINE: May 31st