Audio Files: Chapter 3 Newsmakers and the News

Please find below links to the audio files for Chapter 3: Lesson A from the text "Newsmakers Behind The News".

Lesson A: Listening Pronunciation Speaking
Lesson B: Listening

On-Line Resources: Chapter 3 Newsmakers and the News

Find below links to some other resources and actvities related to the theme for Week 3: Class A: The People Behind The News. Indoors

World Link
Workbook A Workbook B
Schwa Sound Exercises
Breaking English News: Podcasts & Tests
Words in the News [BBC]
Newspapers and the News [World Link 3: Student Site]

Extra Listening: Chapter 3 Newsmakers and the News

Extra listening practicse try the follwing exercises from Randall's Cyber Listening Lab. The Listening Episode and Quiz are entitled World News Stories and the level is very difficult.

World News Stories

English Learning Pocasts: 1: How To Learn English [BBC]

Learn and practise useful English language for everyday situations with the BBC podcast How To Learn English. Your weekly instruction manual for saying or doing something in English is published every Wednesday. Each programme is six minutes long and contains examples and explanations to help you improve your knowledge of the English language across a wide range of topics. Click on the link below to go to their web page

How To Learn English Podcast

Song of the Week: Chapter 2 Times of Our Lives

This weeks 'Song of the Week' is "Changes" - a song by David Bowie. Originally released on the album Hunky Dory in December 1971 and as a single in January 1972, became one of Bowie's best-known songs even though it missed getting into the top 40.

David Bowie, by the way, is an English singer, songwriter, actor, multi-instrumentalist, producer, arranger and audio engineer. Active in five decades of rock music, and frequently re-inventing his music and image, Bowie is widely regarded as an influential innovator, particularly for his work through the 1970s when he was most closely associated with the birth of what became known as 'glam rock'

Lyrics: Changes [lyrics]

Audio Files:Chapter 2 Times Of Our Lives

Please find below links to the audio files for Chapter 1: Lesson B from the text "The Times Of Your Life".

Listening 2A
Pronunciation 2A
Speaking 2A

Listening 2B

On-Line Resources:Chapter 2 Times Of Our Lives

Find below links to some other resources and actvities related to the theme for Chapter 2 The Times of Your Life. Indoors

World Link 3 Resources
Workbook A Workbook B
"John Anderson:VIP" Life Events QuizLife Events Vocabulary Quiz

Extra Listening: Chapter 2 Life Is All About Change

Extra listening practicse try the follwing exercises from Randall's Cyber Listening Lab. The Listening Episode and Quiz are entitled Happy Birthday! and the level is easy.

Happy Birthday!

Song Of The Week: Chapter 1 Indoors & Outdoors

Our‘Song of the Week’ this week is 'Our House' which was is a single by the English ska band Madness, The song was, from their album The Rise & Fall which peaked at #5 in the UK singles chart in November 1982. Madness were formed in London in 1976 and while they were one of the most prominent bands of the late-1970s ska revival, they moved away from ska and closer towards more conventional pop music. Ska is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was a precursor to rocksteady and reggae. Ska combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues. It is characterized by a walking bass line, accented guitar, or piano rhythms on the offbeat, and in some cases, jazz-like horn riffs.

Lyrics

Audio Files: Chapter 1 Indoors & Outdoors

Please find below links to the audio files for Chapter 1: Indoors & Outdoors.

Lesson 1:
Listening 1:A Pronunciation (i) 1:A Pronunciation (ii) 1:A Speaking 1:A

Lesson 2:
Listening 1:B

Online Resources: Chapter 1 Indoors & Outdoors

Find below links to some other resources and actvities related to the theme for Week 1: Class 1: Indoors

World Link
Housing vocabulary in American and British English
Buildings People Live In [About.com]
Buildings People Live In Quiz

Extra Listening: Chapter 1 Indoors & Outdoors

Extra listening practicse try the follwing exercises from Randall's Cyber Listening Lab. The Listening Episode and Quiz are entitled Enjoying the Zoo and the level is difficult.

Enjoying the Zoo

Powerpoint Presentation: Week 1: Lesson 2

Find below a link to the Powerpoint Presentation for Week 1: Lesson 2.

Powerpoint Presentation 1:2

Subject Documents:English Communication 1

Please find below links to downloads of:

Subject Outline
Weekly Timetable

Powerpoint Presentation: Week 1: Lesson 1

Please find below link to the Powerpoint Presentation for Lesson 1, Week 1.

Powerpoint Presentation 1:1

SPRING SEMESTER : SPRING 2008