Learn English with videos and improve your pronunciation

Hi there!

Are you having a nice weekend? Me too, thank you very much. Just a couple of suggestions to keep you busy for a few minutes:

- Do you enjoy watching videos in English but miss the transcription (AND the translation, why not?) of the words in them? Then this is your site: yappr, a great source of videos made just for you. You can browse them either by categories or levels. There is a huge variety of videos (TV ads, music, movie extracts, sports...) and they're updated daily.

- Tired of trying to pronounce English correctly? Why don't you go and visit YAKIToMe? It's a great site to improve your pronunciation. An explanation of how it works here. Hope you try it and tell me if it worked for you. Don't get disappointed by the fact that you need to register, because it's worth it!

Christmas with a British flavour

Is anybody out there? Hope you're enjoying your holidays.

By the way: I just found out that the British Royal Family has gone cyber! Click here to access their Official Youtube Royal Channel.

Of course, the Christmas day Broadcast is there, together with other delightful videos.

Enjoy the Queen's accent and Happy Xmas to you all.

Pronunciation of Irregular Verbs

Because it's never too late!

Here you are: a list of irregular verbs with their phonetic transcription. You can print it out and stick it on your fridge.

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No more doubts! Ever!

-ed Past Simple endings

Fascinating subject today, isn't it? "-ed" endings in regular past verbs!

Look at the Grammar Challenge in the BBC website to listen to the radio programme and download the documents attached. Remember you can also do the quizzes related.

Enjoy the challenge!

What's in a name?

Hello again... "Listening" time!

Ok, do you remember File 1 or is it already too far away? The very first topic we tackled was "Names". Here you are two listening exercises, taken from the BBC site (wonderful site, by the way!):

- Nice and short exercise: text adapted for upper intermediate students with full text available (Over 3 minutes). Topic: popular names nowadays.

- "Real English" exercise: fancy a challenge? Listen to a chat between different women in a radio programme- the discussion topic is whether to change your surname when you get married (over 10 minutes). Remember: don´t panic! Pay attention to key words and don't expect to understand everything.

Finally, click here for some very useful pronunciation tips.

Enjoy!

NEW LINKS- listen, watch and pronounce!

WATCH:
Why not visit these videos organized into categories?

There's also this wonderful blog that has a collection of different videos which may be useful for you learners out there.

You have to click on the "Free Subscription" button on this site, but it might be worth it to listen to "Real English".

PRONOUNCE:
Lovely website with phonetic games! Don't miss it.

This phonemic chart might take some time to load, but it's very interesting.

LISTEN:
And what about these group conversations around images, documents and videos?