I+Listen

=** LISTENING **= **Listen to 10,000 hours of English !** **Find some radio talk shows, podcasts, music in a subject that's interesting to you, or that is new to you.** **Watch TV, movies, DVD's (from the library).** **Eavesdrop (listen in on other people's conversations) and keep a little notebook in your pocket to write down your collection of idioms, collocations and expressions that you've heard on the street.** **Learn how to start a conversation with a stranger, stretch a conversation and close a conversation.** **Students please READ the INSTRUCTIONS carefully.** **Then click the "speech bubbles" to answer the assignments in the discussion boxes.** **- Kinetic 02/16**

**Listening Assignment #3: CBC Podcasts**

Check out the following CBC radio show podcasts and then go to the "Speech Bubbles" to tell me what you think ! 1. **"INTERSECTIONS"** with Niru Kumar []
 * Cultural on the Job > Episode #3
 * Mating & Dating > Episode #4 http://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2396583878
 * Spending & Lending > Episode #5

2. **"NATURE OF THINGS"** interesting for parents, business people AND everyone ! []
 * Born to be GOOD

3. **"KNOW YOUR RIGHTS"** - All about Canadian Law. Something all of us should be familiar with. 4. **"AGE of PERSUASION"** - All about Marketing and Advertising. 5. **"C'EST LA VIE"** **with Bernard St. Laurent.** ** For those of you who speak French, this is an excellent show to listen to that has French Collocations explained in English. French Canadian culture. **

6. "DNTO" the best of host Suk Yin Lee, hip easy listening ...
Strangers in the night [|(11/13/10)] Apr 27, 12:00 AM []

Gett[|ing to know the neighbours (10/02/10)] []

Why is small talk such [|a big deal? (07-10-10)] []

H[|ow far will you go to make conversation?" (05-15-10)] []

Maki[|n' mistakes (03-05-11)]

7. **"Vinyl Cafe"** Story telling about Canadian life with humour (funny). 8. **"White Coat, Black Art" Medical Field, Canadian culture** []

9. Listen to the **CBC News** here anytime: []

Great listening exercises followed by vocabulary, comprehension questions, etc. Go to http://www.cbc.ca/edmonton/learning-english/
 * 10. CBC EDMONTON ** > Learning English Resource:

11. **CBC Podcasts** []

Listening Resources > > > > >
 * http://www.elllo.org/index.htm
 * http://www.eslvideo.com/esl_video_quiz_intermediate_start.php
 * Audio Books > Novellas > [|http://esl-bits.net/Novellas.for.ESL.Students/Novellas.for.ESL.html]
 * English Listening Library Online - []
 * Youtube is your friend - It has great online teachers
 * Dave Sconda is a Pronunciation Star – did I say that? - []
 * Jennifer ESL – has very concise and well-presented video lessons - [] - writing - punctuation
 * Mister Duncan- for anglophiles - [] – English plurals
 * Index of misterduncan – mp4 files - []
 * VOA Special English is also on Youtube []
 * Readalong Listening Resources
 * Voice of America Special English – current news stories read slowly with scripts for readalong -[]
 * [|Children's Storybooks Online]. Some of the stories have audio options that read the text, and some even have animation! The largest selection of stories is for young readers.
 * Micetro Mozart, the Opera House Mouse – []
 * Root Directory of RIF Readaloud Stories – No longer on their web site
 * This illustrated story with coloured read-along prompts is one of the best resources from the very confusing web site RIF.org. I say confusing because I needed to go to one of the root menus – That’s tech talk for a back door to the web site. Take a look. You won’t get to this page from Google
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 * Headway – Pre Intermediate – British Video with Subtitles- Present Continuous and present tenses[]
 * Master Spoken English Video – Series of Listening and Pronunciation
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> > Ø[|Learning] [|//English//][| -] [|//6 Minute//][| English -] [|//BBC//] [] Smories.com- original stories for kids, read by kids * [] > > > > ||
 * * [|Voice of America Special English Daily news]
 * []
 * [|Conversations with video] – Social English
 * [|365 ESL Short Stories]– Listen and read alongA Free Site for Intermediate ESL/EFL Learners
 * [|1500 short conversations]
 * [|BBC English]6 minute listening with audio, comprehension question, full script text files and vocabulary checks
 * [|English Club]
 * Listen to poetry in English[]
 * [|Real English] – basic to intermediate -man on the street –
 * grammar focussed interviews with comprehension exercises.
 * Great controlled natural language listening resource.
 * Follow up with a lesson on colours
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 * Youtube is your friend- It has great online teachers
 * Mister Duncan- for anglophiles
 * – [|English plurals]
 * [|Index of][|misterduncan][| – mp4 files]
 * [|VOA Special English is also on][|Youtube]

= " How to learn English language at home ???" =

1- **Watch some English TV. ** TV is the best and most inexpensive teacher to learn real English.

2- **Try listening to the Radio. ** It's the best way to learn also, (b)Because there is(are) no pictures,(.) You must train your ear to listen.

3- **Use Adolescent ****Smart English programs. ** You get absorbed in learning English. You will learn English automatically. This program is specially designed for the adolescent mind to learn English for their success in career,

4- **Use your newly-learned idioms or vocabulary. ** Once you use the words which you memorized, you will never forget them(.)

5- **<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #545454; font-family: Helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Make friends with native-English speakers. **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #545454; font-family: Helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> (Y)you can communicate with a native English speaker fluently. You have to know enough things and have good listening skills if you want to have good conversations and try to ask a lot of questions to keep the conversation going. This is a big deal for non-native English speakers.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #545454; font-family: Helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">6- **<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #545454; font-family: Helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Spend more than two hours every day on reading English news or articles. **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #545454; font-family: Helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Reading builds up your vocabulary, idioms, phrases, and the concepts of English structures. ==== <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #545454; font-family: Helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">7- **The best way to improve your writing is to practice writing as much as you can**, So you can make some pen pals and write them at least once everyday. ====

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #545454; font-family: Helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">8- **<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #545454; font-family: Helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Join web groups or clubs where you can post questions freely and discuss the use of grammar. **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #545454; font-family: Helvetica,arial,sans-serif;">So you can practice writing and listening.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #545454; font-family: Helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">9- **<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #545454; font-family: Helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> Share your children's home work and all the English practices which they have from the school. **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #545454; font-family: Helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">So you can kill two birds with one stone.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #545454; font-family: Helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">10- **<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #545454; font-family: Helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Use an English-English dictionary and bring your dictionary wherever you go. **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #545454; font-family: Helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> If you find some words that you don't know, look them up in your dictionary immediately.


 * <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #545454; font-family: Helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">I hope and I'm sure that you can get more knowledge in English language if you follow those ways. **

= Busy ** 20/11/2013 ** =
 * <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #545454; font-family: Helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Sincerely yours, **

// **Wow, Busy, I couldn't have said it better myself. Maybe our colleagues will listen to you. - Kamikaze 13/12/16** // ||