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Improving your listening skill - Intermediate 1 EOI

Hello Everyone,

I'm terribly sorry it took me so long to write this post, but it's better late than never. So many of you have asked me how they could improve your listening skill, so that you can pass your final exam. I'm going to list different sites and apps I've found; all of them may not help you, but find one or two that are helpful for YOU (we're all different so those that help you might not help your classmate, and that's completely normal). Therefore, let's start up with simple tips:

Tip
#1
- You can change the audio setting/language of your tv and listen to some English for 15-20 minutes every day.
#2
- Watch films in English, with English subtitles
#3
- Listen to songs: you can either listen to songs you like, reading the lyrics at the same time as you're listening (and looking up the words you don't know), or you can practise with this site Songs to learn English Intermediate
#4
- You can listen to the cd that comes with the books we've got for you to borrow at the school. You can play it while you're driving, or upload it on your mp3/mp4 player or smartphone, and listen to it while you're running/jogging/waiting. You may even connect your smartphone to the car speakers and listen to an English radio station.
#5
- Listen to English news radio stations, and choose pieces of news you've already heard in Spanish, just to check how much you undertand from a topic you already know what it is about.
VOA - Voice of America
Words in the News BBC Learning English (you can download the podcasts)
breakingnewsenglish Do level 5. Choose a piece of news, and once you're on the page, go to LISTEN and click on "mp3", right below the heading. Then choose the speed (medium).
- TheNewYorkTimes - videos
#6
- Follow a series that you like, and watch it in English (if you can watch it with English subtitles, even better).


And now I'll list some websites that may help you:

- Better at English - real English conversations This website has got podcasts (that you can download) and they come with the transcription. The author tries to use idioms and phrasal verbs in them.
- saberingles Listening exercises taken from news on VOA.
-Listening exercises with The Simpsons
- elllo Choose level 4, but if you find it difficult start with level 3. However, if you find it easy, try level5.
- Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab Try "Medium" level.
- ompersonal - video
- ompersonal - audio
- englishclub - news They publish a new audio every week, so keep it as one of your favourites and check it every week; make it a routine. That's the only way to see an improvement, being constant.
- manythings Many different topics, with transcriptions.
- Khan Academy In the Khan Academy you've got a wide range of topics, and also, you can find texts to improve your vocabulary. It's probably a bit complecated, since it's what students in the US use to study. However, it may help people interested in specific topics related to science or history, and it may come in handy in Intermediate 2 and above. Go to the upper left side of the page, click on "subject" and choose the one of your choice.
- National Geographic This could be difficult, but some of you could be interested in these topics/videos, and it's also important that this is fun for you, otherwise you'll give up really quickly.

You can also give it a go to Dictation:
- ompersonal -dictation
- dictationsonline  Start up by Pre-intermediate and go on form there.
- learnenglish.de - dictation

And finally, here you have two apps you can use to improve and listen anywhere:
-  english_conversation_app
- voicepaperapp As far as I know, this one is only for iPhone (sorry!). There must be one also for Android, I haven't found it yet.

Try to download the audios or podcasts, it may be useful to have them on your mobile.

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Draw something - practise vocabulary

For android

For iphone

Queekypaint

Queeky - draw online!

Queeky is an online drawing community with special drawing tools and creative users from all around the world.
Create animated drawings or visit the huge galleries and learn from the creation process of your favourite art.

queekypaint

Collins dictionary

collins dictionary

OM personal

OM personal Listening and videos
om personal audio

Relative when, where and why

When and where can introduce relative clauses after nouns referring to time and place. They are used in the same way as preposition + which.
I'll never forget the day when I first met you. (=... the day on which...)
Do you know a shop where I can find sandals? (=... a shop at which...)

Why is used in a similar way after reason.
Do you know the reason why she doesn't like me? (=... the reason for which...)

Taken from Practical English Usage by Michael Swan

Turn one's nose up - keep sb on his/her feet

A student asked yesterday if idioms are informal. Well, here you have a video in which Nick Clegg, Deputy Prime Minister uses to idioms. Therefore, you can see they could be used in a neutral-formal situation.

Clegg in 'energy deal guarantee'

turn one's nose up at sth Definition

Keep somebody on his toes Definition

Bring somebody down

To bring somebody down Energetic song in order not to feel down, or rather, not to let people bring us down.

Or do you prefer Christina Aguilera?

Run out

Time is running out A song in which run out is used. In the song you'll see that you can run out of time, but in the pictures you'll also check that you can run out of petrol or money.

run out of / run out / to be out of / to be short of Finally, here's a link to the explanation of different expressions that have similar meanings.

Fortnight

Related to yesterday's class, we can find in our dictionaries fortnight translated as quincena, dos semanas, and the question is ' is it fourteen or fifteen days?' Well, if we go to the etymology of the word, and being absolutely precise, it used ton mean 14 nights.

http://www.wordreference.com/es/translation.asp?tranword=fortnight

http://www.wordreference.com/definition/fortnight

http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/fortnight?q=fortnight

Discovering Britain

History, landscape and more. For those who like travelling, here you can also travel with your imagination.

http://www.discoveringbritain.org/walks/landscapes/view-all/

English Idioms and Idiomatic Expressions

http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/

Longman English Dictionary

http://www.ldoceonline.com/

Cambridge Dictionaries

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/

Urban Dictionary

You may find that certain expressions aren't on a regular dictionary. That's because it's slang. So here you have a link for those times when wordreference is not enough.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/

About writing - Very useful material

I've found this list of files that I reckon are really useful in order to prepare for the written part of the exams. You have some layouts for different types of letters, and also check lists and words of advice.

http://blog.educastur.es/awweoio/downloads/

The Bob and Rob Show

http://www.thebobandrobshow.com/website/index.php

Listen and Read Along

On this site, you can read and at the same time you can read what is being said.

http://www.manythings.org/listen/