Global Warning

La teacher recommends us to watch this video about climate change. Click on the picture to watch it.

Tongue twister

Try to say it. It's not that difficult.


She sells seashells by the seashore.
The shells that she sells
are seashells, I'm sure.
So, if she sells shells on the seashore,
I'm sure the shells she sells
are seashore shells.

Hearing comprehension 12

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:
As the policeman approached the shopping center to check on a shoplifting incident, he noticed a man with several plastic bags walking quickly toward a parked car. He ordered the man to stop, shouting the order three times. Finally he pulled out his gun and shot him dead. The man never heard the policeman's order because he was a student at the local school for the deaf.

Summercat - Billie the Vision & The Dancers

Pronunciation tips - Long 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.

Practice your listening 4

Todd talks today about the jobs he has had. Just listen, answer and learn.

Useful tips - How to get it!

This one is written in Spanish, but anyway if I were you, I'd read it. It's an advise by a famous and well known English teacher. To read it just click on the next link or on the picture: How to get it!

Weekly quotation from La Teacher

Business English Vocabulary Lessons for Project Management

Hearing comprehension 11

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:
Alfred Adler, a famous Austrian psychologist, once said that the chief danger in life is that we may take too many precautions. That's easy to say, especially if, like Alfred Adler, you have few financial worries. For normal people like me, I have to be extremely careful with my money and how I invest it.

New tool in our blog

AnswerTips are small bubbles of information triggered by double-clicking any word on our page. So if you don't understand any word in this blog, you only have to double-click it, and you'll get a bubble (pop-up) with its definition, pronunciation, interesting information, and links to dictionaries, wikis, etc. Try it!

Practice your listening 3, AMERICAN ACCENT

What about some wildlife? Learn about the mountain lion with Todd.

Pronunciation tips - Short Vowels - 7

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.

business vocabulary, financial vocabulary

Hearing comprehention 10

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:
If you don't make up your mind pretty soon, somebody will make it up for you. We've got to have a decision on the Peterson project by the end of this month or we'll risk losing the entire contract. You're the general manager and they think you're calling all the shots on this. It wouldn't be good to give them a different impression at this point in time.

Practice your listening 2, AMERICAN ACCENT

Today Todd talks about movies. Listen and answer the questions.

Some fun - Waiter jokes

Pronunciation tips - Short Vowels - 6

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

Financial English Vocabulary - Global Economic Meltdown