Listening skills. American accent

In this link you can listen and repeat a text where you are advised to wash your hands as many times as you want to improve your pronunciation. Notice the American accent. Also you can learn and revise new vocabulary.

And then you can watch and follow the transcript of one of the last President Barak Obama's speeches to its nation:

If you want to follow some of these speeches or even download the podcasts, follow this link

Vocabulary topic: food, meals, restaurants

Watch the video and repeat. You can revise food vocabulary and count-non countable nouns. Now. Let's have a listening practise to revise the vocabulary topic: food, meals and restaurants with these useful sources from the BBC World Service.

• Listen 1: going out to a restaurant.
• Listen 2: ordering a meal.

To complete the revision you can click here to read the text and learn new words .

As a speaking exercise click on the link to listen and repeat the vocabulary.

At a restaurant

Listen and speak by following the video . You can learn how to order a menu .


Then, you can follow another one and practise at home.

Listening practise after exam

You are free from lessons now but you shouldn't stop practising. Today I have uploaded links to go on listening at home.

• phonetic quiz
• email listening
• regular past endings  
• dipthongs test

Practical English: At the reception of a hotel

Listen, watch and repeat.