Learn/Practice English with MOVIES (Lesson #1) Title: The Incredibles
This website attempts to strengthen listening skill performance in EFL students from second baccalaureate through the practice of listening learning strategies in selected exercises.
Listening exercises for EFL students
Download here the work sheets for this activity and then listen to the Train Station Listening.
Activity 1: Train Station Listening
Author: Derek Spafford.
This activity provides short listening practice based around a dialogue at a train station ticket office.
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Source: British Council Platform - Teaching English
Author: Luiz Otávio Barros
Play the video and listen to fragments of these 12 popular songs to improve your listening and speaking skills.
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Google Podcast App
Activity 2: Twelve songs to practice word’s pronunciation end in -ED
Activity 3: Use this App to search for your favorite author book or discussions about the topic you like the most.
Download Google Podcast App on your Smartphone or Tablet to make activity 3.
We recommend you to search for the following audios:
a) Oscar Wild Storynory - The Remarkable Rocket.
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b) Stephen King Cast.
c) Marvel's Voices.
d) Chasing the Chords.
Activity 4: Work on Deep English Blog
On Deep English Blog there are free lessons in which you can choose a topic and download the listening or listen online to an informative article. The advantage is that each listening can be played at slow speed, normal speed or fast speed. All of the topics have a transcription so you can read while you listen at the speed you prefer. Besides, each of them brings a vocabulary quiz at the end of the reading.
To start the activity 4:
1. Clic on the following images to enter in a reading of Deep English Blog.
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2. Inside the Deep English Blog, clic on the blue box at the left side to see the "Vocabulary" for this lesson.
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3. Clic on the yellow box at the left side that says "How to use this lesson to improve your English Listening".
4. Follow the steps for "How to improve your listening".
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5. Afer listening several times with different speeds, take the Vocabulary Quizz located at the end of the webpage.
Activity 5: YouTube Playlist "6 Minute English"
Listen to 6 minutes of English per topic with this YouTube playlist. Each video contains an animated transcription of the dialogues, the vocabulary words within its meanings and a multiple choice question. Also you can find the same elements on the description of each video.
To start Activity 5:
1. Clic on the video to start listening.
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2. Remember that with the YouTube buttons below the video you can also activate the translated subtitles for a better comprehension of the topic.
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3. If you feel they are speaking too fast, you can slow down the video by making a clic on the configuration button and change the speed from "normal" to "0.75" or for even slower to "0.5".
4. Pay attention to the conversation in the video, answer the multiple choice question and write down the vocabulary words on a blank sheet of paper to study them every day.