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inthewild
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 Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 4:50 pm Post subject: Avanced Listening Material for a CD? |
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| I'm looking for some advanced listening material. I couldn't find any on Google yet. Just a bunch of tracks on CD. |
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Easter Clark
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| Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 12:00 am Post subject: |
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Assuming these are adults, I would download news podcasts--CNN has quite a few good ones here.
Listen to them, then pick out the vocab you think the students may have trouble with. Put the words into context on a worksheet and have them guess at the meaning.
Alternatively you could introduce a short article related to the topic to engage their interest, which includes the new vocabulary.
If you come across stories online that you have to stream (i.e., you can't download to your hard drive), use audacity to create a .wav or .mp3 file to burn to CD.
There's so much you can do here, I'm just brainstorming! |
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Corky
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| Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 12:11 am Post subject: |
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| http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com has some really good listening/reading/writing/speaking lessons. A lot of each lesson is listening-based. |
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inthewild
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| Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 7:04 pm Post subject: |
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These are great links and I'll use them, thanks.
I was not clear, and I actually need any kind of material. It doesn't need to have a lesson to go with it. I'd like it to be easily transferable to CD.
Just brainstorming here... |
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Corky
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| Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 7:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Decifering song lyrics can be fun. |
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Easter Clark
Joined: 18 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 8:11 pm Post subject: |
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| inthewild wrote: |
These are great links and I'll use them, thanks.
I was not clear, and I actually need any kind of material. It doesn't need to have a lesson to go with it. I'd like it to be easily transferable to CD.
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Yeah Audacity (free, btw!) will record anything that is coming from your sound card. Just play any audio file you like, click the "record" button in audacity, then when you're finished you can save the file as a .wav and use any CD burning software you have to burn it on to a CD. You can read more and download the program here:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
I actually use the program if I can't find a certain song online--you can almost always find a streaming version somewhere, and definitely on YouTube. You can also use www.vixy.net to convert YouTubes to .mp3 files, and there are torrents as well, but now I'm getting off-topic! |
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