Listening+(B2)

//**1.**** FIND MATERIALS RELATED TO TOPICS **//

To develop your skills is a good idea to practise with materials related to topics. Doing this, you can learn vocabulary and contents that you may use to speak or write about these topics.

//**2.** ** DO EXERCISES BEFORE, WHILE AND AFTER LISTENING **//

There are some educational web pages that include some exercises you can do before listening, while listening and after listening. They even include the transcript.

- Before listening you can do exercises related to the vocabulary you are going to listen. - While listening your can answer comprehension questions. - After listening you can answer questions for discussion, read the transcript and pay attention to the grammar or write a commet.

//**3.** ** TRY TO LISTEN TO AUTHENTIC MATERIAL **// (radio, television, videos, etc.)

You can also work with authentic materials that are not prepared for educational purposes. Don't worry if you don't understand everything. You can use this material to speak about what you have watched in relation to a topic or for fun, in case of comic sketches.

//**4.** ** PAY ATTENTION TO THE MEANING **//

You can listen to find out the topic or you can listen for detail. Pay attention to the key words and try to answer some of the following questions after listening: b) What are the main ideas? c) What are the advantages/pros given? d) What are the disadvantages/pros given? e) What facts are given? f) What are the examples mentioned? ||
 * **For stories or news** || **For presentations or lectures on a topic** ||
 * a) What happened? b) Where did it happen? c) Who did it? d) When did it happen? e) How many people? /How much ...? || a) What is the topic about?

Listening to topics (B2)

http://www.podcastsinenglish.com/pages/level2.shtml http://www.podcastsinenglish.com/pages/level3.shtml

http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/magazine http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts http://www.manythings.org/ http://learningenglish.voanews.com/

YOU CAN ALSO LISTEN TO FCE TESTS
COMPUTER GAMES http://www.examenglish.com/FCE/fce_listening3.htm

EDUCATION http://www.examenglish.com/FCE/fcelistening.htm

HOBBIES AND INTERESTS http://www.examenglish.com/FCE/fce_listening4.html

SAMPLE TESTS http://www.mansioningles.com/first/first_cert06.htm http://olpt.s3.amazonaws.com/online-practice-fce/index.html

SITUATIONS http://www.examenglish.com/FCE/fce_listening_part1.htm

TRANSPORT []

YOU CAN ALSO LISTEN TO SONGS
Waka-Waka (by Shakira) []

Haven't met you yet (by Michael Bublé) To practise tenses and phrasal verbs [] []

She's the one (by Robbie Williams) To practise past tenses [] (with lyrics) []

American pie (by Don McLean) To practise past tenses []

RELAXING WITH ENGLISH
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Visualization

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