Wählen Sie aus verschiedenen Englisch Lehrkräften für ...
Erica
Resources for students
Hi everyone!
Since it's something I get asked about a lot from my students, I'd like to create a space where teachers can share their recommendations for listening and reading materials for students to explore independently.
Here are a few of my personal favourites to start us off:
Reading:
<ul><li>Newsela is good for news articles for different levels. You have to sign up but it's free! You can adapt the difficulty level of each article. There are other websites for this, like breakingnewsenglish, but the design tends to be quite old-fashioned and not very user-friendly</li><li>Dreamreader also has lots of articles which can be adapted to your level.</li><li>BBC News has lots of short articles which are good for ambitious intermediate-level students and above</li><li>The Guardian is good, but I'd say for very ambitious upper-intermediate and advanced students only</li><li>Medium is good for advanced reading materials that are less news-based</li></ul>Listening (and watching)
<ul><li>I'm sure everyone here already knows about TED but I can't recommend it enough! Great for exploring different accents and practicing your own through shadow-reading. One of the few of this kind of websites to offer subtitles in multiple languages so potentially good for all levels.</li><li>The Guardian's video section offers some fantastic short, documentary-style videos, and they also have a fantastic podcast, called Today in Focus, which I highly recommend for advanced students</li><li>Channel 4 has a brilliant series of interviews, called Ways to Change the World. Good quality subtitles available so potentially an option for anyone with at least an intermediate level. You would have to be ambitious though because they are quite long, about 40-50 minutes each. Maybe something to break up into multiple viewings...</li><li>Vice (available on youtube)</li><li>Nowness (on youtube and, I think, vimeo) also has some great documentaries. Not really suitable for less than ambitious upper-intermediates or advanced students though because subtitles are auto-generated only.</li></ul>These are just some ideas off the top of my head. Feel free to add your suggestions so we can build a library :)
15. Nov. 2019 08:56
Kommentare · 2
3
Great idea Erica!
This post should really be made a "stickie".
I also have a whole list of this stuff somewhere.
Just to kick off I would recommend BBC radio podcasts, (especially those of BBC Radio 4 for more advanced learners):
<a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts</a>
I also recommend learners just listen to the radio as something they can do passively while washing the dishes or doing other household chores. It is an excellent way to get accustomed to <em>hearing</em> the language without having to understand everything.
Again, my recommendation here is BBC Radio 4.
The American station, NPR is also very good (if you prefer a US accent) or even ABC (Australian).
<a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4</a>
<a href="https://www.npr.org/?t=1573810016904" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.npr.org/?t=1573810016904</a>
<a href="https://radio.abc.net.au/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://radio.abc.net.au/</a>
15. November 2019
2
Leaving a comment so i can read later. Thank you Erica!
15. November 2019
Erica
Sprachfähigkeiten
Englisch, Französisch, Italienisch, Spanisch
Lernsprache
Französisch, Italienisch
Artikel, die Ihnen gefallen könnten

How to Ask for a Raise or Promotion in English
9 positive Bewertungen · 8 Kommentare

The Key to Learning a Language Faster
31 positive Bewertungen · 8 Kommentare

Why "General English" is Failing Your Career (An Engineer’s Perspective)
30 positive Bewertungen · 12 Kommentare
Weitere Artikel
