TED Talks - Evelyn Glennie shows how to listen

Another great video from TED Talks about listening.



Word cloud of the TED Talk video. 

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TED Talks - Julian Treasure : 5 ways to listen better

Listening is a very important skill in learning English. From the TED website, is a nice video about listening by Julian Treasure. 



Now here is a word cloud which shows the words used by Julian Treasure in this TED video. Cool, isn't it?

Word Cloud made with ABCYA

3 Wonderful Things About ELLLO

If you want to practise your listening and comprehension skills, English Language Listening Lab Online (ELLLO) is a great site to bookmark. This free site contains hundreds of listening activities with short quizzes to test your comprehension. While you listen you have the option to show or hide the text. The text version also offers audio explanations of difficult words and phrases. ELLLO's mp3 recordings are unique in that they offer English accents of people from all over the world, including America, Canada, Britain, Australia, and countries where English is not a first language. Conversation topics, such as housing, relationships, and jobs are modern and practical in daily life. Listen on site or download your favorites and study English on the go. To sum it up, I found three wonderful things about ELLLO :
1. It's free.
2. There are hundreds of listening activities with short quizzes to test your comprehension. 
3. Conversation topics are modern and practical in daily life.


To know more about ELLLO, try to listen to Russell Stannard's tutorial which you can access here. 

Photo via michellehenry.fr

3 Wonderful Characters at StoryTimeForMe

Do you like reading books? Well, if you do, then you can try to check this amazing website, StoryTimeForMe.  This site is a free reading program for children in early elementary school which allows them to read and listen to enjoyable and  interactive picture books.  It also offers free personalized books where the child actually becomes the star of the story book. There are three(3) nice characters who have a series of stories in the website.  A bigger and even more awesome website to read children's books is the International Children's Digital Library. 

18 Fantastic Word Games from FunBrain

FunBrain is such an amazing website for kids as well as kids at heart! This website has a Math Arcade, Reading,Fun Arcade, Playground and one of my favorites is the Word Games.  Check out the 18 fantastic word games from FunBrain!

PhraseMix

PhraseMix  is one of my favorite websites for learning English phrases and natural English. There are thousands of  lessons to choose from and this site has so much content for English language learners. Try to always check out PhraseMix  and learn more about important English phrases and expressions.

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PhraseMix.com is a site for learners who want to speak more natural English. Use this widget on your site.

The Best Sites To Practice Speaking English

One of my favorite ESL blogger is Larry Ferlazzo ; he is quite well-known for his blog, Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day.  Today, I'ld like to share his blog post, 'The Best Sites To Practice Speaking English' which shares a lot of websites about the best speaking sites there is in the Web for English Language learners (ELLs). You can access the list of speaking sites here.