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Listening

  • Video on the present continuous
    Lots of conversations

    A list of conversations with exercises.

    Series
  • Video on the present continuous
    Soap opera! Big City Small World

    Hour of fun. Three series of an audio soap set in London

    Series
  • Video on the present continuous
    Lots of listening with Touchstone

    Find the listening sections in each unit

    Series
The Galapagos Islands
Practise

Listen to the conversation and read the transcript.

Living in the wilderness
Practise

Listen to the conversation and read the transcript.

Listening exercises on different topics
Series

Listen to examples of real Engish and do the exercises

Magazine articles
Series

Listen and read articles on a wide variety of topics and do the exercises.

Practise your dictation skills
Practise

Listen and write down what they say

Practise with the Headway phrase builder
Practise

Listen and repeat phrases then do some exercises.

Listening for details with different topics
Series

Lots of illustrated listening activities

Listening to wikipedia
Series

Listen to short extracts from spoken wikipedia

Listening comprehension through dictation
Series

Lots of dictation exercises