RESOURCES

This page is full of interesting resources for all your skills: (Just press on the name of the page and you will be redirected)

LISTENING:

– BREAKING NEWS ENGLISH: To listen to news and to do exercises of comprehension, vocabulary and other skills related to them.

– LYRICS TRAINING: An easy and fun method to learn and improve your foreign languages skills through the music videos and lyrics of your favorite songs.

– VIDEOJUG: To watch videos about many different topics (most of them with transcriptions)

– TED TALKS: To listen to and watch very interesting lectures, conversations and speeches about current topics

– HISTORY: Interesting videos about cultural or historical events

– CNN STUDENT NEWS: To watch videos of the most interesting news of the day,especially  aimed at students

– NEWSY: Videos about the most interesting news with very different topics. They are a bit difficult (quick American English), but they have their transcription.

– ESL VIDEO: With videos classified in levels  (upper-intermediate) and with activities of comprehension

– ELLLO: Podcasts and videos with activities of comprehension classified in levels

– RANDALL: With quizzes to check your  oral comprehension in different levels (difficult)

–YAPPR: Videos with quizzes to improve your English

  ONLINE RADIO:

– BBC RADIO: A British radio listen to different radio programs live or pre-recorded. In the section LEARNING, you can find exercises to improve your English. With different channels:

• BBC Radio 1: The best news, novelties and music in English
• BBC Radio 2: Concerts, entertainment and exclusive interviews
• BBC Radio 3: Music, culture, poetry and radio-drama. The section “The Verb” where poems and literary works are analyzed
• BBC Radio 4: Histoy, art, science, comedies and radio-drama. The section “The Afternoon Reading” with a read short story, is highly recommended and “Afternoon Play” will surprise you and you’ll love it
• BBC Radio 5:  Live news, sports, interviews and debates
• BBC Radio 6: Shows, specials and novelties in music
• BBC Radio 7: Comedies, programs for children, mystery and adventure. Highly recommended:: “Murder on the Orient Express”, a mystery story with Hercules Poirot and teh “Big Toe Radio Show”, a very interesting program for children
• BBC World Service:  World news, economics, science, technology and spectacles

– VOICE OF AMERICA NEWS: An American radio with videos and podcasts of news or other stories with transcriptions and exercises to practise (They can be downloaded). With news, interviews, analysis and novelties

– LIVE RADIO NEWS: To listen to live and pre-recorded newscasts from around the world  to obtain a fresh perspective on events that impact you

– RADIO TOWER: With links to news radio stations around the world

– KENRADIO: Daily technology news audiocasts by Ken Rutkowski (for “geeks”)

– VAUGHAN RADIO: Transmitting from Madrid programs to teach English in different levels

ONLINE TV:

– WWITV:  To watch television online in English, just choose your channel or the type of programme you want to watch and enjoy!!

– BBC TV: With different channels and different types of programmes: news, entertainment, knowledge… (For instance, there is a programme called “BBC Breakfast with Frost” where you can hear news and interviews)

– CNN WORLDWIDE: To watch the CNN

– CBS WORLDWIDE: To watch the CBS

– CNBC WORLDWIDE: To watch the CNBC

– SKY NEWS: To watch SKY NEWS

– FOX NEWS: To watch FOX NEWS from the USA

–COMEDY CENTRAL: Comic videos, episodes of comedies and the “Daily Show”

– REUTERS VIDEO: Videos with the most interesting news

– VOICE OF AMERICA TV: The TV version for the radio

– EURONEWS: The tv streaming live

– C- SPAN: Interesting programmes of general interest, like politics or economics (There are  3 channels)

FROM OTHER COUNTRIES OR PLACES

– NEW ZEALAND : The TV from New Zealand

– SOUTH AFRICA: The news from South Africa

– IRELAND’S : Ireland’s National Television and Radio Broadcaster

– SCOTLAND: The latest Scottish News from Scotland

SPEAKING:

– SPLENDID SPEAKING: With strategies and tricks to develop your oral expression

– TRANSLATE AND SPEAK: This is a great program where you write your text in English and it will be pronounced in English for you (don´t use the part of translation, please)

PRONUNCIATION:

– TRANSLATE AND SPEAK: This is a great program where you write your text in English and it will be pronounced in English for you (don´t use the part of translation, please)

– HOW YOU SAY: This will pronounce any word you need (not a whole text, though)

READING:

– AUDIOBOOKS: Free audiobooks to enjoy reading

– BOOKS SHOULD BE FREE: Another site with free audiobooks

     NEWSPAPERS:

– LIST OF NEWSPAPERS ALL OVER THE WORLD: A list of all the most important newspapers all over the world: listed by continents, countries and regions

But I am going to include 4 of the most famous one to learn English:

– THE INDEPENDENT: With articles and podcasts from this British newspaper

–THE GUARDIAN: Another British newspaper with articles and podcasts

– THE WASHINGTON POST: An American newspaper with news, opinion articles, sport, culture and podcasts from the US

– THE NEW YORK TIMES: The New York Times online. It also includes video and RSS feeds

WRITING:

–  OWL ENGLISH: With strategies and tricks to develop your written expression

  FURTHER GENERAL PRACTICE:

– BRITISH COUNCIL: An organization devoted to promote the knowledge of the language and culture of the United Kingdom. In this section LEARNING, you’ll have different helps to improve your English: songs, poems, grammar activities, vocabulary exercises…

– NEW ENGLISH FILE UPPER-INTERMEDIATE: A very useful website for general practice of Ebglish

– NEW ENGLISH FILE INTERMEDIATE PLUS: Another version, but a bit easier