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These materials are from BBC Learning English site. All of them are downloadable and each audio & video material have its pdf file (with transcript and vocabulary). These audios/videos are good for developing students' listening and reading skills, increasing students' vocabulary, and also speaking skills. It depends on the purpose of using this material. For example I used the first one (I haven't used the others yet) "Are men the weaker sex" with my intermediate students. While listening they underlined all the unknown words they had come up with, then we discussed the words together (I explained them in a target language). After, the discussion, I asked them not to look at the transcript and listened to the audio again. At the end of the audio they told me what the audio was about and in this way I could make them speak.

I used this audio/video file during my practicum to teach 5 to 7 years old 10 little kids from AUA EEC courses and it succeeded. It was an entertaining way of teaching. The kids were motivated because they could hear and watch a colorful video clip. As in this audio/video file kids were singing and dancing by pointing out their parts of the body. Watching this motivated the kids and they started to imitate them. After playing the audio and video file several times they learned it by heart.

This is a wonderful activity for developing students' listening, reading (skimming and scanning), speaking skills, as well as increasing vocabulary. it contains variety of activities which are based on the listening. Moreover, all the activities can be done both online and on paper (all materials are printable including the transcript of the audio). It contains a pre-watching vocabulary activity the story a comprehension activity a language activity about idioms I used this material with my two intermediate students. Though the level was lower I have decided to try. In order to help them I wrote down the words/expression that they might be unknown and discussed them before listening. Then they listened to the audio but still had difficulties to understand completely what the audio was mainly about. In order to solve the misunderstanding I have decided to give the transcripts to read while listening (It helped much to understand). I used the third activity to check whether they could scan and skim the information (they could as I guess reading helped them very much). The last activity was a multiple choice activity where the students should look at the given idioms and choose the best meaning. Suggestion- If your students are not high intermediate/advanced the process will be slowed down. Just use transcript and after listening discuss the text. It will help.

I used this video/audio flash cards to teach my neighbors' 13 years old son and his 2 classmates the Present Simple tense. Although, the students have learned present simple at school they didn't internalize it properly. They were mixing present simple with present continuous. Hence, I used these video/audio flash cards to help them. First, I explained the way how and where to use present simple and present continuous and then I played the video/audio file to let the students practice and internalize the material properly. Overall, I want to say that I found this material to be very helpful for both students and teachers especially when there is a confusion between present simple and present continuous tenses.

I used this video/audio file for teaching 15 children from AUA EEC classes to describe weather (i.e. it is rainy, it is cloudy, it is snowy, it is sunny and etc). This video/audio file helped me to teach children in an enjoyable way. This activity worked well and all the students learned the target material properly.

I used this video/audio file for teaching time to 15 AUA, EEC upper-elementary level children whose age ranged from 8 to 11. This video/audio file helped me to keep children's' attention focused on learning. At first, they were supposed to watched the video and then to tell the correct time. This activity worked well and all the students learned the target material properly, moreover, there wasn't a need to play the video file several times.

1. Advanced English listening skills 2. Advanced English conversation skills 3. Using English slang and humor 4. Advanced English phrasal verbs and their usage 5. Using complex sentences with multiple clauses 6. Advanced English idioms and vocabulary 7. English for daily life, social life and business 8. Advanced verb tenses & usage At the end of each audio, there is a vocabulary list with explanations in front and also some expressions that are utilized in the the lesson.

I used these dialogs with my brother, who wanted to improve his English. Generally speaking he wanted to listened to native speakers speech and daily conversations. During the listening I didn't show the transcript of the dialogs in order to check whether he understood the meaning. To tell the truth there were some unknown words and expressions even for me. He could get the main meaning of the dialogs, however there were words and expressions that were quite difficult for him to understand. So, to solve the problem I used the vocabulary list written below.

A productive link which contains high Intermediate English Audio Lessons for busy people, aiming to help them to *Improve English listening skills *Learn to speak and understand fast English *Develop natural English conversation skills *Learn to use English phrasal verbs and idioms *Formal, informal and general English styles *Complex sentences, clauses, questions and grammar *Learn to tell stories and make friends in English

This audio book is a good sample for developing both listening and reading skills. The book also includes pictures which in its case make the story interesting and attractive. IT also can be printed. The text is not so simple so, the students should have good English skills in order to understand the content of the text.

This is a wonderful site and everybody can find audio and video materials on their level. All the materials develop listening, speaking, reading skills (skimming, scanning, true/false, etc), increase students' vocabulary. Almost all of them contain pdf files with activities and transcripts which also can be done online. All the materials provide examples (both online and on pdf file). I used some of them in my classes. I would like to talk about the video that explains the differences between the words of American English and British English. It was a wonderful video that could explain the different use of pants/trousers and other words also. In addition to video there are also exercises which also reinforces the vocabulary and provide with additional activities that develop students' different skills.

One of the best ways to teach vocabulary using visuals and audio. This has worked very well with kids. They responded very positively and wanted to try again and again till they memorized the words.

you want to learn names of fruits and Vegetables in English so lets play this game together!! you can play it both with its audio version and with the text.

A very effective way to teach and learn verbs. The animation and audio make it easy for learners to see the action, hear the verb and read it simultaneously. My friend's son liked this game and played almost five time in order to remember all the verbs and play the game to check the answers.

Text and MP3 Files for ESL Students Listening to Naturally-spoken English Audio with Transcriptions

Slow Click With this game you can practice and review different sets of vocabulary items for learning English. You can choose to review vocab according to audio, short descriptions or titles. With the audio option you can practice listening. With the short description option you can practice comprehension and understanding. It's really cool

This game helps kids to learn the time by listening to an audio and choosing the correct time

I used this video/audio file to teach my 9 years old niece and her 8 years old friend English prepositions of places. The interesting thing was that I didn't tell them that they were going to learn prepositions . I just played the video clip and went away letting them watch and enjoy it. After watching the video clip several times, I noticed that they were learning prepositions by discussing the video clip and translating prepositions into Armenian language. Hence, I found this video clip to be very useful for teaching prepositions to children in an entertaining way.

A link which integrates an audio and pictures of 'Body Parts' - both aiming to help elementary level students acquire and practice the target vocabulary.

This is more like flashcards, but it is also directed with audio. It teaches the numbers. While counting the pictures (animals0 the name of the animal is given, and the sound it makes is heard. I think it is appropriate for kids (beginners).

Includes reading, listening, and vocabulary with an interesting topic that could be pulled integrated into a lesson rather easily.