Audio Vocaroo: Voice email service where you can assign students oral practice, they \record themselves

and email it to the teacher. http://vocaroo.com/ Fresh up-to-date audio and text with exercises based on recent news, also a podcast option. http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/general/ BBCs flagship programme which bring the stories behind the news from their foreign correspondents. Text and audio available. Suit high level students. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/default.stm Illustrated children's stories for kids of all ages, some with audio. http://www.magickeys.com/books/ Many classic childrens stories in audio and with text and games associated with the stories. Also some movies with text and visuals. http://www.candlelightstories.com/audio/ Audio files and scripts of practical / travel / telephone / banking and accounting dialogues. http://www.audioenglish.net/ Comaudio: with sound file in wave format so you can focus on the pronunciations of certain world and highlight word and click through for dictionary. http://www.efl.net/caol.htm Intercultural issues in an English teaching context. http://www.absolutely-intercultural.com/ Podcasts for students with transcript and exercises. http://www.eltpodcast.com/ PodOmatic allows you to record yourself and upload the recording to a web page with no specialist technical knowledge or previous experience required. www.podomatic.com Advice and resources for using podcasting. http://teacherspodcast.org/resources/ For a free and easy to use sound editor which represent sound as a wave and then you can cut and paste the bits you need. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

AV Material Video from the main stories in the news without any commentary, very good for students to describe what is happening. www.euronews.net/nocomment Visual material for learning esl and tenses respectively www.visualesl.com www.englishtenseswithcartoons.com/ Funny videos mainly drawn from advertising. www.funnyplace.org/ Video, podcasts and articles from discovery channel. http://videos.howstuffworks.com/ Video from the history channel with some games. www.history.com/videos Searchable archive of biographies with videos, photos and games. www.biography.com/video Short news videos from CNN. http://edition.cnn.com/video/ One minute world news from the BBC www.bbc.co.uk/news/video_and_audio Youtube: How to: A huge range of videos giving instructions for almost anything some with good visual and clear language. e.g How to fold a tee shirt in 2 seconds' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An0mFZ3enhM Animals: A great variety of videos with animals, often without any dialogue or commentary. The baby panda sneeze http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzRH3iTQPrk Travel: Lots of material on travel destinations much suitable for descriptions others for activities based on the commentary / dialogue. Where the hell is Matt? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlfKdbWwruY Music: Almost any piece of music you can think of, often with the lyrics on screen. The music videos often tell a simple story in themselves which you dont need an understanding of the lyrics. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH476CxJxfg & Lots of other quirky montages of images where people attempt to tell the story of the songs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QW85kfakJc Humorous stuff: Including physical comedy like this one, the evolution of dance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMH0bHeiRNg&NR=1 Film trailers: Brief introduction to all the films giving the briefest of introductions to character, setting, plot and atmosphere of the film. http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=film+trailers+2011&aq=0&oq=film+trailer Web / Video Blog: People giving the world the benefit for their wisdom and experience. There is often an exchange of views between different bloggers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIiZ6_yGm6M or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNjEaZmJw4s&feature=related