Head Idioms - BBC Learning English (The Teacher)

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What about some fun in learning? Here there are some very usual and useful idioms.

Pronunciation tips - Short Vowels - 4

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Perhaps the most difficult issue to learn in a foreign language is differences between vowels. Here we provide you some very useful pronuntiation tips. Don't miss them every Saturday.

Weekly quotation from La Teacher

LIFE ISN'T ABOUT FINDING YOURSELF.

LIFE IS ABOUT CREATING YOURSELF.

George Bernard Shaw

Hearing comprehension 7

We propose you a hearing comprehension exercise. We're going to give you a paragraph every week (Mondays) to practice with it. Try to understand every single word. We advise you to write it, as if it were a dictation. You can send us your writtings here below clicking in 'comments'. We'll give you the right answer the following week. Try it!



Here is the transcription to the last week listening:
You're not going to believe it, but Harold left the keys in the car. We're still here at the roadside restaurant where I called you from an hour ago, trying to find a way to break into the car. We called a local locksmith but he hasn't arrived yet. If worst comes to worst, I'll break one of the windows.

Pronunciation tips - Short Vowels - 3

Perhaps the most difficult issue to learn in a foreign language is differences between vowels. Here we provide you some very useful pronuntiation tips. Don't miss them every Saturday.

Weekly quotation from La Teacher

By three methods we may learn wisdom:
First, by reflection, which is noblest;
Second, by imitation, which is easiest;
and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

English Vocabulary for ESL: Legal Vocabulary - Commercial Law

Every Wednesday we'll be publishing a new lesson of Business vocabulary. So, if you don't want to miss any of them, remember to visit us next week.

Hearing comprehension 6

We propose you a hearing comprehension exercise. We're going to give you a paragraph every week (Mondays) to practice with it. Try to understand every single word. We advise you to write it, as if it were a dictation. You can send us your writtings here below clicking in 'comments'. We'll give you the right answer the following week. Try it!



Here is the transcription to the last week listening:
We've been going over the figures on the new construction project and we feel that it's not the right time yet to seek a partner. The last joint venture we got involved in was a fiasco in the end and we're still paying for it. We'd like a couple more months to see how operations are progressing in general before commiting a new alliance.

Pronunciation tips - Short Vowels - 2

Perhaps the most difficult issue to learn in a foreign language is differences between vowels. Here we provide you some very useful pronuntiation tips. Don't miss them every Saturday.

Weekly quotation from La Teacher

It doesn't matter who you are,

where you come from

the ability to triumph begins with you.

Always.

Oprah Winfrey

English Vocabulary for ESL: Legal Vocabulary - Court Cases

Every Wednesday we'll be publishing a new lesson of Business vocabulary. So, if you don't want to miss any of them, remember to visit us next week.

Hearing comprehension 5

We propose you a hearing comprehension exercise. We're going to give you a paragraph every week (Mondays) to practice with it. Try to understand every single word. We advise you to write it, as if it were a dictation. You can send us your writtings here below clicking in 'comments'. We'll give you the right answer the following week. Try it!



Here is the transcription to the last week listening:
Listen, John, we've got to find a way to absorb the noise in the general office area. The acoustics are terrible and when everyone's on the phone, the noise bounces off the floor, walls, and ceiling like crazy ping-pong balls. Couldn't a few rugs on the floor and maybe an additional plant or two reduce some of the noise?

Pronunciation tips - Short Vowels - 1

Perhaps the most difficult issue to learn in a foreign language is differences between vowels. Here we provide you some very useful pronuntiation tips. Don't miss them every Saturday.

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