Listening Extra

Listening Extra
Activities are designed around authentic scenarios and help develop specific listening skills, such as listening for details, identifying emotions or listening for opinions. The recordings expose students to a variety of native and non-native accents and cover a range of genres from radio and television to academic lectures, presentations and conversational dialogues. Download (right click… ...

ESL Article Analysis & Language Study

ESL Article Analysis & Language Study
Now read this student response. Nowadays, cars has become very popular amongst everyone as a means of transport. The majority believes that this is due to it’s enormous speed and the comfort it provides us with. However, I believe that it has benefits and drawbacks equally. At first, while enjoying the comfort and speed, we… ...

Usain Bolt – Students’ Listening Tasks

Usain Bolt - Students' Listening Tasks
Salaam folks! This is something out of the ordinary I did this week! Instead of giving the listening questions, I gave my students the transcript and had them work in pairs/individually to come up with listening questions of their own! With a little help from me, this is what some of them produced! I’ve typed and… ...

A factory in the neighbourhood

A factory in the neighbourhood
Contributed by  Roy Pappachan, English Teacher, Madhrasathul Ifthithaah, Lh. Naifaru, Maldives Thanks Roy for this student response! A factory in the neighbourhood Almost every country in the world is industrialized or gearing towards industrialization.  Our local council has decided that a factory is to be built nearby the neighbourhood.  A vast majority of people believe that building ...

Student Response – ESL Article

Student Response - ESL Article
This is a response from one of my students. If you like to share your students’ work, you can mail to us at sujjey100@hotmail.com! We will review and publish them with full credit. Student Response What is your opinion about installing a drinks and snacks machine in our school? In my view, it will be… ...

Multiple-speaker ESL listening – Race

Multiple-speaker ESL listening - Race
Salaam folks! OK! Before you attempt the exercise, let me give you some tips! The best way (in my view) to do this kind of questions is to follow certain steps; 1. Understand the topic of the question. 2. Think of as much related words as possible of that topic 3. Look for clauses (parts… ...