White Flag, by Dido.

This is the song that we listened to in class.  Pay attention to the lyrics and how she uses will + infinitive for promises. 

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Everything, by Alanis Morissette.

This is the song we listened to in class.  Please, listen to it again paying attention to the comparatives and superlatives.

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Four short stories

These are four short stories I would like you to listen to.  In some weeks' time, I will leave the photocopies with the texts and the activities that we will check in class after Spring break.

1.- Interactivity

2.- The Stranger

3.- The Wave

4.- Watch it!

This is the life, by Amy MacDonald

If you want to practice your listening skills in an amusing way, you can use this song - This is the life, by Amy MacDonald-

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Yellow, by Coldplay

Here you have the song that we listened to practice past simple verbs. Click here if you want to listen to the song again and practice a little bit more at home.

Appearance: Ugly.

This is the song we listened to last week. Listen to it at home again and pay attention to the lyrics. It is a good practice to review vocabulary about appearance. 


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Developing your listening skills

1. These are interesting websites that you can use to improve your ability to understand talks and conversations in English:

http://www.rong-chang.com/qa2/ --- short stories that you can listen to.
http://www.esl-lab.com/ --- audio and quizzes to check how much you understand.
http://www.elllo.org/ --- tracks that include scripts and explanations of expressions.
http://www.audioenglish.net/ --- dialogues, narrations, phrases, pronunciation and role plays.

2. To download podcasts:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts --- to download some radio programs and news, British English.
http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_directory.php --- to download some radio programs and news, American English.
http://voicesinthedark.com/content.php?iContent=50 --- to download stories.
https://catalog.librivox.org/search.php?title=&author=&status=complete&action=Search --- to download audio books.

3. Pronunciation dictionaries:

http://www.howjsay.com/
http://www.wordreference.com/

4. Our website: http://www.eoitoledo.es
5. Our facebook group: amigoseoitoledo@groups.facebook.com