More free English listening practice!

Just for fun, I made a visual component to go with a listening activity from Nice Talking with You. The featured listening is called "Global Voices," because you can hear Australian, New Zealand, and British English, as well as excellent English by non-native English speakers from Africa, South America, Europe and Southeast Asia.


If you think this is cool and you think I should do more of these, please let me know!! And, of course, feel free to get the audio downloads for more "Global Voices" at www.nicetalkingwithyou.com .

Hi English students from around the world! I want to say THANKS to you for "LIKEing" me on Facebook, so here's something cool for you — a whole set of audio downloads to improve your listening comprehension.

How do you get it?
First, take a look at this video:

So, now go to the link & download!*

If you need some help, one of these will explain how to download and transfer it to your iTunes:

PowerPoint                                PDF file


PowerPoint 2007                      PowerPoint Slideshow

Thanks again for visiting my blog!

Tom

*(Downloading this copyright material means that you agree to the Terms of Use; namely, you can listen, but you can't use any form of it in a way that violates the copyright, including, but not limited to: reposting the material for any use or download, reselling the material in any form, or unauthorized use of any part of the audio, script, etc. All material (c) 2010 by Tom Kenny; all rights reserved.

Another short survey for English students — about vocabulary.

English learners,

Please give your opinion!

Because I have a great job at a university I love working at, I always enjoy OPEN CAMPUS, where I get to meet the high school students who are thinking about coming to my school.

This year I brought them to the Speaking Lab to let them check out that cool e-learning facility. The high school kids even recorded their own conversations and took them home on their USBs!!

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There's a new social media site in town: Slideshare. The creators want us to think of it as a YouTube for PowerPoints, and that's a pretty accurate way to describe it. Like YouTube, you upload the content you've created and voila! — your message, in minimalist slideshow fashion, is available for all the world to see.

Like YouTube, there's an enormous amount of crud on their site, so you have to be pretty astute to find quality content ... << MORE >>

For teachers:
When you comment on students' conversations, you can embed your audio file ( I prefer mp3 mono files) directly into a .pdf, preferably a colorful one that students will find easy to keep track of. Of course, the comment I made here as "advice" is just an example, not really intended to be serious advice to help ESL learners




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Friends, colleagues, students…lend me your opinion!!                

Nice Talking with You is being revised for a new edition, and I need your reaction to some ART!      

We’ve had two illustrators submit their work for the new “Shopping” unit. Which one do you like better?

sample A     or    sample B    ?

sample A:

or

Sample B:

To make it easier for you to “vote,” I’ve included a brief survey form for you to fill out here:

And please leave a comment below!

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I guess it's for that reason —that I'm "blessed," so to speak, that I look for ... << MORE >>

I celebrate my 18th anniversary this week — 18 years now, I've been living in Japan. I still remember the day I "moved." Bonalyn Nelson drove me to the airport in New Orleans. She gave me a care-package of things one should never go without when aboard a 14-hour flight. I still have the rainbow-colored pencils she had custom-made with my name on them. Ginna Parker (RIP) loaned me the money for that outrageously-priced airline ticket. In my ... << MORE >>