English Listening Lesson Libary Online TRAVEL ENGLISH: English for tourists, English for travel, travel-related phrases Welcome to our Travel English section! If you're planning a trip, and would like to learn/practice common English phrases used by travelers, we offer 60 free exercises that will help you do this. This is much more than a simple English phrase book. It's a collection of interactive exercises designed to assist you in a wide variety of possible travel-related situations. So click on any of the exercises below and start practicing English BEFORE you take your trip! TRANSPORTATION (TRAINS/CARS/ETC.)
ESL Listening Comprehension Exercises: Movie clips to practice English | ELL/ELT SECTION 1: Movie Clips Learning through media (movies, music, etc.) is one of the best ways to learn a new language. The exercises below use movie clips to help you to better understand spoken English. Here's what you do: Click on the video you want to watch below.Watch the video, and pay attention to it! The Great Gatsby Moonrise Kingdom Silver Linings Playbook Away We Go Bolt Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Chronicle The Avengers Adventureland The Royal Tenenbaums NOTE: All of these videos are protected by copyright.
IDEA International Dialects of English Archive | free dialect and accent recordings for the performing arts World’s First Robot College Student Learns About Love Imagine you are a college student at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, California. You walk into your philosophy class on the first day of the new term only to find a robot looking you right in the eye. This robot is no huge piece of equipment that builds automobiles, or small device that cleans your floor. It is Bina48. Bina48 looks like a human – at least the head and shoulders of one. The story of Bina48 Bina48’s story began thirteen years earlier. Rothblatt’s organization, called the Terasem Movement Foundation, developed a system for keeping a computerized record of a person’s thoughts, opinions and memories. In 2007, the organization asked the company Hanson Robotics to design an A.I. program based around a Mindfile. Bruce Duncan is the managing director of the Terasem Movement Foundation. The robot’s mind does not operate exactly the way a human mind does. “She…is aware that she’s both a robot and that she’s based on a specific person named Bina,” he told VOA.
audiolingo.com The tunnel is famous because... it is often romanticised in many novelspeople have been murdered therepeople have been mugged thereit has been part of a scene in a well-known book The narrator... enjoys being distracted by other passengerswishes other passengers would leave her alonehopes others would strike a conversation with herignores everyone around her Why did the narrator not tell the lady to leave her alone? She acknowledges that an effort to be left alone would be in vainShe is embarrassed by the foolish ideaShe rages in discomfort at the thoughtShe is envious of others who can ignore people who pester Why did the narrator bump the old woman's leg? She thought the woman was being rudeShe wanted to check her vital signsShe wanted to see if this conversation was something she had beforeTo ensure she wasn't dreaming Who is Heidi? The narrator's actual motherThe narrator's step-motherThe narrator's adopted motherThe woman sitting with the narrator on the train