Useful resources
Don't waste your time searching on the internet. It really offers a wide variety of resources. But some of them are not well designed or just aren't worth it. Below you can find some links to websites that we consider useful and very practical.
Listening training:
Listening training:
For children and teenagers:
For children and teenagers:
- BBC School radio (songs, rhymes, stories)
- Listening exercises (organized into levels; short audios and short exercises)
- BBC English Language Learning (for children, teenagers and adults)
- British Council for teenagers (listening, reading and writing)
- English for kids (activities for young learners)
- Audio Fairy Tales
- Short stories for children
- Lyricstraining.com (have fun with your favourite songs, fill in the gaps and sing along)
- Today I found out (fun facts and interesting things to feed your brain)
- Ororo.tv (videos and series in English)
- Seeker (youtube channel about science)
- Dates and years (they can be tricky to understand, sometimes; here are some links: numbers, years, times and days, daily schedule.
Listening training for adults:
Listening training for adults:
- Ororo.tv (videos and series in English)
- BBC Sounds (radio and podcasts)
- Breaking news English
- Spotlightenglish.com (15-minute radio programme for learning English)
- English central (choose a topic and your level, and watch a video)
- Vaughan radio (different levels; you can download mp3 files)
- Lyrics training (complete-the-gap game with your favourite songs)
- Today I found out (fun facts and interesting things to feed your brain)
- Podcasts in English (natural conversations)
- British Council (short audios and exercises for self-study)
- BBC English Language Learning (for children, teenagers and adults)
- Luke's English Podcast (audio contents by a British teacher)
- Playphrase (watch film extracts that show examples of key phrases)
- Speech Accent Archive (speech samples from native and non-native speakers)
- Dates and years (they can be tricky to understand, sometimes; here are some links: numbers, years, times and days, daily schedule.
Listening training from B1 onwards:
Listening training from B1 onwards:
- TED talks (the popular website with inspiring speakers and powerful talks from Technology, Entertainment and Design, to science, business and global issues)
- BBC Earth (youtube channel)
- Videojug (how-to videos on hundreds of topics)
- Funkyphrasals (listening practice on phrasal verbs)
- BBC Radio 4 (not only news; give it a try!)
- Seeker (youtube channel about science)
- Dates and years (they can be tricky to understand, sometimes; here are some links: numbers, years, times and days, daily schedule.