English Language Skills

British Council Stories has audio stories and transcripts...in British English, of course!

There are also poems and articles.

Englishconversations.org has English conversations and transcripts.

 Here are Marshall Adult Education stories related to CBET/family literacy. The number in parentheses is the reading level, from .7 to 8.0

Grammar Girl is a weekly five minute podcast which also has a website.

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ELLLO is a website that provides audio and transcripts of authentic conversations from a variety of American and British speakers. There is a Facebook page to join site users.

www.englishspeak.com is a website that provides pronunciation of about 1500 words and has the interface translated into Chinese and Spanish.

This week's reading is on the economic crisis. The reading is at Key News, and is called The Economic Crisis and Its Causes. I've made an MP3 for it and it's attached below. There is also a PowerPoint for the vocabulary words and the Word document version of the reading.

We are having Tai Chi every morning, I didn't like it before, it was kind of boring. But since we are making progress I started to enjoy it. My friend Javier says that he is losing some weight.