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Phonetics

And now! Time for phonetics. Enjoy playing the games on the following webpage:

LEARNING PHONETICS

Listening Tasks . September 20th

Below you can find the grid and links you will  need to start your listening tasks. Remember one listening piece a day.

LISTENING JOURNAL GRID
U.R.L.	DATE	DURATION	TOPIC	RE-LISTEN? WHY?	CHANGED LEVEL?	CUES THAT HELPED YOU UNDERSTAND	DIFFICULTIES
							Vocabulary Word boundaries Fast input Tune out due to difficulties in vocabulary Difficult topics Many different voices Accents Others

LINKS FOR THE STUDENTS TO USE IN CLASS AND AT HOME  

http://www.manythings.org/b/e/tag/interestingthingsesl  Listen to stories while you read the script

http://www.esl-lab.com/videoclips.htm  A wide range of short video clips (30-60 sec.) with related exercises

http://www.esl-lab.com  General listening quizzes graded in different levels 

http://www.learnenglishfeelgood.com/eslvideo/index.html  Video clips from real movies with comprehension questions

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio BBC’s international radio

http://www.thedailyshow.com  TV news told in an interesting way

http://en.yappr.com/welcome/VideoList.action More short video with scripts that you can hide if you want.

http://www.stonesoup.com/archive/listen  Short stories read by their young authors. You can choose listening only or listening while reading

http://www.rong-chang.com/qa2  Short stories with exercises

http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-make-a-cup-float-in-mid-air

http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-make-a-small-illusion-magic-trick

http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-blow-out-a-candle-behind-bottles

http://www.videojug.com/film/smoke-from-fingertips

http://www.videojug.com/film/the-top-5-laziest-inventions

http://www.saberingles.com.ar/listening/index.html  Fill in the gaps exercises. Songs.