Do you like reading? Have you read the best-seller “The historian” by Elisabeth Kostova? Here is a nice place to listen to the authors talking about their books.
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Another cool website for students
and yet another one! this time from the mighty BBC. Again , I’ve chosen this one to help you practise pronunciation, reading and above all, listening. Hope you enjoy it!!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/
Practise reading and listening
If it ever entered your mind I was going to let you go on holiday without recommending some websites for you to keep on learning, then you don’t know me at all. That’s the first cool one I’ve bumped into, some others will follow.
The purpose of this site is to help adults improve basic skills like reading and spelling using real-life stories on topics of interest to adults.The stories are based on real life situations of interest to adults.
Pick a story to hear the story, click the “Listen” button below the story. When you are done reading the story, click the “Next” button to start doing some activities based on the story .
Do you like reading?
Here is a very interesting site to visit. Here you can practice reading and do comprehension exersises.
You can choose to select:
The story: as provided by CNN SF and CBS 5. Intended for adults with moderate reading and speaking comprehension skills including advanced ESL or non-native English speakers.
The Abridged Story: Modification of original story text by simplifying complex ideas and sentences, exchanging advanced words with less difficult ones, and change difficult concepts into precise terms. Intended for adults with low reading comprehension skills including beginning ESL or non-native English speakers.
Story Outline: Outline summary of basic edited story elements.
And what is more, along with the text you can see the video.