IELTS SPEAKING PART 1 - Topic - Giving gifts:

Q. When do people give gifts or presents in your country?
Q. Do you ever take a gift when you visit someone in their home? [Why/Why not?]
Q. When did you last receive a gift? [What was it?]
Q. Do you enjoy looking for gifts for people? [Why/Why not?]

How many seconds do you normally speak for? Have you counted it?

IELTS-SPEAKING 8-9 BAND IS POSSIBLE. DAILY SPEAKING PRACTICE PART 1,2 & 3. Listen daily.

IELTS SPEAKING PART 1 - Topic - Giving gifts:

In this episode you can listen to the fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty being read out loud in Dutch. 

Sprookjes in het Nederlands voorgelezen

Doornroosje (Sleeping Beauty)

In this podcast I talk briefly about the Beijing Winter Olympics and share some of my childhood memories of skiing and snowboarding.
Keywords in this episode
tricks
ski slope
chair lift
timberline
glacier
snow boarding
ski lodge
The Shining
Stanley Kubrick
Mount Hood 
adrenaline
abdominals
quads
frozen fingers
moguls
wipe out




Streetwise English

SWE 1 Beijing Winter Olympics & Childhood Skiing Memories

I had a dream about a magical garden paradise.

Learn English with Stories

Dream- Magical Garden Paradise

Your fluency begins in your head, not your mouth. In this episode, learn how to train your inner voice to think in English—using fragments, fillers, and feelings that build natural fluency step by step.

Context Clues

Your Inner Voice In English

Practica español conmigo en este podcast corto de unos 13 minutos. Respondo algunas preguntas (mi opinión) sobre las redes sociales y las fake news o noticias falsas. Polémico debate del siglo XXI. Te invito a intentar responder las preguntas para practicar tu español (podes responderlas en voz alta, hablando, o escribirlas en un papel) y a escuchar mis respuestas para entrenar tu listening conmigo.

¿ESTÁS LISTO/A?

DALE PLAY!

Disfruta de aprender

5 Preguntas sobre las redes sociales y noticias falsas

大家晚上好啊，我是丹霞。您现在收听的是中文台词频道，今天的台词出自电影《后来的我们》，由周冬雨和井柏然主演。

"能在北京生活对我来说一直是一个梦，在北京 好像每天都能遇到新鲜事儿，遇上有趣的人，所有的梦想都能实现。虽然挣的钱不多，空气和水也没有家乡的好，但是我得试过了 才甘愿回到小城市，去过结婚生子、柴米油盐、平淡的下半生，我一定得坚持下去，北京，谁怕谁!" 
   ——电影《后来的我们》/<Us and Them>

    
新鲜Xīnxiān  fresh, new
挣钱zhèng qián  earn money, make money
甘愿gān yuàn  willingly, readily
柴米油盐chái mǐ yóu yán fuel, rice, cooking oil and salt -- daily necessities, daily common life
平淡píng dàn flat, ordinary, insipid


Chinese Lines 中文台词

05. 北京，谁怕谁！Beijing, I'm not afraid at all！——《后来的我们Us and Them》

最近又过了不少节日：比如父亲节。除了一些常见的中国节日，还有哪些有意思的国际节日呢？一起来听听看吧！