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ESL Resources - Blogs & Podcasts
Business English Pod is a great resource for English language audio and video lessons pertaining to business situations and scenarios.
The Culips ESL Podcast focuses on everyday English and idioms, expressions and slang. This is a great podcast for ESL learners of every level who want to learn informal English used by people in their daily lives. Episodes can be accessed from the Culips website or through iTunes.
ESL Aloud is another podcast that offers audio lessons for ESL learners of all levels; but the focus of this podcast is listening and repetition. Lessons cover everyday situations as well as grammar instruction. This podcast has been going since 2006 so there are many episodes to listen to. Scripts for most lessons are also available at the website.
Providing information relevant to ESL instructors is the focus of this blog. Some of the topics covered here are ESL teaching tips, workplace issues, budgeting, jobs, using technology to teach ESL and many more.
This site features synopses, discussion questions, vocabulary and more pertaining to certain movies meant to assist ESL students learn and discuss English in more \“real life\” situations.
ESLPod is a podcast created by volunteer professors with over thirty years of ESL teaching experience. Each podcast is spoken at slower speeds using everyday phrases and expressions. Instructions for subscribing to this podcast are provided on the site. Learning guides for each episode are also available for a fee.
Kenneth Beare has been an ESL presence on the web since 1997. The postings on this blog range in topic from grammar and business English to vocabulary and the TOEFL.
Created by the British Council, Learn English Podcasts offers audio lessons for ESL students at all levels, from beginners to advance. There are also exercises on the site that go along with the podcasts. Note, the English spoken on this podcast is British.
Jeffrey Hill, a teacher of English in France, posts recent news items on his blog, along with vocabulary terms, for students and teachers to use for reading and discussion.
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