The ENGLiSH CiRCLE

In this section you will find a number of listening comprehension exercises which are based on the first part of the Test Of English for International Communication.
These exercises will help you practise and improve your business
listening skills and you will also learn many new phrases. Here is how
you should complete the exercises:

1) Read the questions below the MP3 player so you know what information you need to listen out for.
2) Click on the red play button on the MP3 player.
3) Click on the correct answers to the questions below the player.
4) Click on the ‘check my score’ button to see your results.

You
can listen to the recording as often as you like. If you want to see
the transcript (the text) of the recording, please click on the ’show
text’ link next to the ‘check my score’ button.

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• 210 Questions-Responses
• 200 Conversations
•  200 Short-Talks

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You can now catch the ENGLiSH CiRCLE on our Facebok page at www.facebook.com/english.circle !

The BBC World Service Widget allows you to listen to and view current BBC World Service news stories.

The ESL Cyber Listening Lab is a great resource for online Listening Quizzes.The Quizzes are classified by topics and difficulty level. There are some Vocabulary Lessons as well as some Long Conversations with Real Video

Watch CNN News items on Videos conveniently classified by categories. Click Here!

Live from the newsroom of www.france24.com, James Creedon provides an overview of the world’s newspaper headlines, from Monday to Friday at 9.10 am (and at 6.20 am and 7.10 am for France’s newspapers). Watch it now!

TED is a small nonprofit organisation devoted to “Ideas Worth Spreading”. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design.

Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with two annual conferences — the TED Conference in Long Beach and Palm Springs each spring, and the TEDGlobal conference in Oxford UK each summer — TED includes amongst other things the award-winning TEDTalks video site.

“On TED.com, we make the best talks and performances from TED and partners available to the world, for free. More than 700 TEDTalks are now available, with more added each week. All of the talks are subtitled in English, and many are subtitled in various languages.”

Our mission: Spreading ideas.

“We believe passionately in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and ultimately, the world. So we’re building here a clearinghouse that offers free knowledge and inspiration from the world’s most inspired thinkers, and also a community of curious souls to engage with ideas and each other.

This site, launched April 2007, is an ever-evolving work in progress, and you’re an important part of it. Have an idea? We want to hear from you”.

“The springtime TED Conference, held annually in Long Beach and simulcast in Palm Springs, is at the heart of TED. More than a thousand people now attend — indeed, the event sells out a year in advance — and the content has expanded to include science, business, the arts and the global issues facing our world.

Over four days, 50 speakers each take an 18-minute slot, and there are many shorter presentations, including music, performance and comedy. There are no breakout groups. Everyone shares the same experience. It shouldn’t work, but it does. It works because all of knowledge is connected. Every so often it makes sense to emerge from the trenches we dig for a living, and ascend to a 30,000-foot view, where we see, to our astonishment, an intricately interconnected whole.”

Visit www.ted.com for a most amazing learning experience both from a language learning point of view and as a human being open being opening to the Whole.

Free ESL/EFL podcasts with interviews, slideshows, audio notes , and original songs so you can keep  practicing your English even when you are away from your computer.

Video lessons are HERE!

Take your ELLLO with you on the road and repeat lessons as much as you like.

The Teacher is the BBC award-winning video series designed to make learning English idioms fun. Each unit has a video you can watch and download to your computer. There’s also an opportunity for you to practise using the idioms by sending in your ‘homework’.

Try it HERE!