by EFL Listening Teacher | listening tips |
Are Listening Tests A Waste Of Time? What do you think of traditional listening tests? Are they: A useful way to check your listening abilities. A stressful exercise that scares you just thinking about it. A complete waste of time that encourages you to guess...
by EFL Listening Teacher | understand native speakers |
Conversations – The Forgotten English Listening Practice Activity Updated November 2021. In this post I’d like you to meet my colleague Kirsty from English with Kirsty. She’s written the very first guest post for this blog. Yay! Kirsty is a fellow...
by EFL Listening Teacher | understand English movies |
How To Get Started With Voscreen In 5 Minutes Updated October 2021. Have you sat down before to watch a movie in English? You know the feeling. You’re excited to immerse yourself for a couple of hours in the language and culture. But after a couple of scenes, your...
by EFL Listening Teacher | listening tips |
What Happened When I Tried To Understand Italian TV? Updated June 2021 How many TV channels do you have? Thanks to digital TV, we have hundreds, if not thousands of channels. We can watch: Turkish channels Armenian channels Latin American channels You name it, I think...
by EFL Listening Teacher | listening tips |
Dictations In English: Tiny Recordings Make A Big Difference To Your Listening Skills Updated April 2021 When I talk about dictations, what comes to mind? I live in France where the word for dictations is ‘dictée’. For French people, a ‘dictée’...