WEBSITES

Audio / Video & Activities

English Language Listening Lab Online (over 1 000 free listening activites)

The Web Language Lab (great French site - US and UK English listening comprehension, games etc.)

Randall's esl-lab (US site - audio and video, 3 levels, pre-listening and listening tasks)

The English Listening Lounge (audio texts with questions and answers - 3 levels)

Soundguide (a variety of exercises and activities with UK and American audio extracts)

Soundguide movie & TV (short extracts with activities)

Focus English (short conversational English audio extracts with questions)

BBC (on-line learning pages)

1-English (US site - lots of short texts to listen to and multiple choice questions)

Learning Oral English Online (10 short extracts of conversational English & questions)

OM Personal (over 50 audio extracts with 3 levels of activities - Spanish site)

CNNSF Learning Resouces (a new story from CNN every month with activities - audio & video. Try not to read the text when you listen!!!)

The Stress Site (Help and advice with English word stress : l'accentuation des mots. You need Windows XP, Internet Explorer and Shockwave Player 10.1 to do the activities : le parcours mode entraînement )

 

Selected IT-specific videos from YouTube (especially IT & network security)

5 security tips for businesses (Casey Turner, Sensei Enterprises Ltd. runs through some basic precautionary measures. 3 mins 20)

The duhs of security (Professional educational video with humour, essantially definitions of lots of terms + advice. 13 mins)

Cisco security training video (in-house video used for training seminars - actors, advertising and advice)

 

Media Sites (no activities - for listening only, try these sites on your PC at home!)

Ted Talks (20-minute lectures from Monterey California by some of the cleverest and most talented people in the world - TED stands for "Technology Entertainment and Design")

YouTube EDU (English) (a selection of university classes, lectures, etc. fimed and uploaded onto Youtube - exists in several languages)

BBC radio player (The British Broadcasting Corporation - choose a station and listen live or to a programme by genre from the archives - ask the teacher if you want something recommended)

NPR technology (US National Public Radio technology page. Listen to archive technology news stories)

VOA special English News (the Voice of America - a 30 minute world news programme in simplified English from The American world service radio station )

VOA webcasts (video - mainly world news)

CNN (choose audio for free or pay for video...)

ESL Movie notes (summaries, character notes and vocabulary for hundreds of films - watch them on DVD at home IN ENGLISH using these notes to help)

Just the News (Very complete site - links to radio, internet and newspapers for the whole world! Choose the radio stations which broadcast in English...)

NPR (US National Public Radio . Listen to news stories)

 

Academic lectures, etc.

Videolectures.net (lectures from seious academics on a variety of technical subjects, similar to TED but more scholarly)

 

Other stuff

The Meatrix (a short film to make you think twice, The Meatrix 2 & 3 are less good, watch something else instead!)

The Story of Stuff (A 20 minute film about the problems and solutions of the consumer society - choose English subtitles!)

 

ACTIVITIES DEVELOPPED AT IUT2 GRENOBLE

Videos & Activities

The Internet revealed: IXPs V2.0 (6 short tasks based on a five-minute video)

How not to do a job interview (4 short tasks based on a two-minute video)

Wind energy (6 tasks based on a short video sequence about a hi-tech house)

The IT Crowd (the first two episodes of a British TV show about the nerdiest nerds you're ever likely to meet... with a few exercises)

Alfred Mann's House (5 tasks based on a short video sequence about a hi-tech house)

Charlie the Tuna (5 tasks based on a short video sequence about a robot fish)

Out of this World (5 tasks based on a short video sequence about a hotel in space)