which is the best website on the internet for learning English for free in this video I'm
going to show you three different websites all at different levels they're going to include
listing material games loads of vocabulary and grammar activities I've also put a menu system
in the description so if you want to jump to one of the particular videos you can do that
really hope you like the video and as always if you do please like it please share it and please
in the comments tell me which of the websites do you like the best and why let's get started so
this first website is called listen a minute it's got loads of listening material you can
also listen and read at the same time which is really useful and there's also some great grammar
activities if you scroll through though you'll see there are masses and masses of activities
i'm just going to click on one they're all the same which is great it's very easy to use this
website if we click on calories the best thing to do actually is to click on the pdf file because
actually what you get then is a quick breakdown of the whole lesson including the reading and
then some activities that you can do afterwards so you can print this out as a student and then use
it on your own or you can use it in the classroom because a teacher could easily use this material
so it could be useful for both a teacher and a student but if we click back we've also got the
listening here I'm just going to click and play this for a few seconds listen a minute dot com
calories do you ever think about or worry about the number of calories you eat and drink every day
now notice that that's exactly the same obviously as the text so you can listen
and read at the same time if you click here as well it's also possible to download the audio
you could for example save that in your google drive and then you could of course listen on your
on your mobile phone when you're perhaps walking along or you're on the bus or on the train
the other lovely thing is that you've got two online games so the first one is that after you've
listened you have to kind of rebuild the whole text so if I can remember do you ever think or
do you ever think or worry about the number of
calories you eat and drink and so it's telling me look I get 100
now if I make a mistake then it tells me with a cross and then I get another chance um and then
of course your percentage goes down so that's one of the games and if we click here on quiz 2
this game is slightly different you've got the listing material here so you can listen but the
idea is to rebuild the text by thinking of all the words that you've heard so for example if I write
calories I definitely remember that that's in the text and I have I remember that's in the text
ever and then you and then I'm going to put diet and if the word is not in the text then it will
appear here so so far I've got 10 out of 146 so this is a great website and sort of intermediate
just slightly below intermediate level and what i particularly like is that there are
so many different listening activities to do and they're all for free
so this next website has got masses of listening material on it plus exercises and one thing I
particularly like about this website is that it has a big variety a wide variety of different
accents and it's really important when we're learning English that we get used to listening to
a whole range of people speaking English not just native speakers I thought I'd start by showing you
an example of some material and then afterwards we can quickly look at how you can navigate
so on this example here we've got a listening we can play the listening we got the script so we
can listen and let's just quickly click on the listening and we can read at the same time okay
so Anthony I thought we would talk about bitcoin okay so you are kind of the expert about bitcoin
I wouldn't I wouldn't say I'm an x-ray just maybe a a hobbyist so how long ago okay so you've got
that then afterwards so you've got the the which is really useful there to have the whole of the
listening so you can listen and read at the same time then you've got some vocabulary exercises
here that you can do as well okay and then that's followed by a quiz to check your understanding so
really useful the vocabulary also includes some listening material here so if we click here
kicking myself okay so we hear the key word and then we get a sentence an example so it's
kind of highlighting the key vocabulary from the listening really good now not only have you got
audio lessons you've also got video lessons if we quickly jump over here and just quickly come
into one so you can get an idea we get here a video lesson and this time we can actually
see someone on the screen and again we've got the transcript this one doesn't do vocabulary I
think the recovery is a new idea but again we get the transcript which we can either turn on or off
and we can also do the quiz after to check our understanding so masses of material now what
I want to quickly do is just show you how to search for all this brilliant material
so there's a couple of really easy ways to search if you just click on e-l-l-o you'll come back to
the home page the first thing I would suggest if you want to look by level is to click on levels
and then decide what your level is so let's for example go to level two and of course you've got
all the separate levels here so let's just click on sort of mid beginner level and then what we get
is a whole series of recommendations let's just go to one of them we've got a present simple one here
always a good topic moon morning routines that we've got to listen to and in this particular case
what we've got here is a script and we've got the audio if we click here john tell me about your day
okay so notice that sometimes the format's a little bit different and I think that's
because obviously this has been built up over a period of time sometimes they're using videos
sometimes they're using audio sometimes they're using different places where they
save the content for example this one was saved on SoundCloud but what is brilliant is that you've
got masses of masses of material even shows you where the accent come from so in this case
it's from English speakers and you can as i said before apart from the levels you can just
access video content and notice again that you get a little indication of who is speaking what
country they're from so this great opportunity to hear a range of accents including non-natives
it's not always the case that the videos or the audio is with native speakers brilliant website
in terms of getting access to lots of material and you can work on your own and it's all free
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online right let's get back to the video this final website has got masses of material but I
particularly like the content at the higher levels and I even use it myself sometimes for learning
bits about history so we've seen three websites now and I'd love to know in the comments below
which of these websites you like the best and why so let's have a look at this final website
the content is broken down into levels which makes it really easy so you've got beginning
intermediate advanced let's have a quick look at intermediates we click here then we get different
sections of content news reports articles etc all based around news articles in English so you need
to kind of look at your level and decide what you want to look at just to give you a quick taste
let's just have a quick look at a couple of things we'll click on this one here about toxic chemicals
and if we look in this particular one what we've got is a listening with the text written out
with focus on keywords so let's just play it for a few seconds from VoA learning English this
is the health and lifestyle report more than half absolutely excellent that you can listen obviously
you're going to get an American accent and read at the same time you've got the key words there
all being focused on this is quite long level this one and then there's a little summary afterwards
of some of the vocabulary that has been focused on in that particular article so that's just one
example if we click back again on the intermediate level you've got lots of things that's health and
lifestyle you've also got a section called science and technology you really need to look through
this material a section i really like and i said i have honestly used quite a bit actually is some of
this stuff on american history so for example the house of representatives what it is etc
this one on how the amer or how america expanded over to the west and also about the purchase of
the territories in louisiana and if we come down again we get a reading activity here that we can
follow and then sometimes it's reading sometimes it's listening material so it's really interesting
to have a look at all this stuff this one for example you can click here and play the audio
and if we just scroll down so you can actually let me just click on that the us expands west in 1801
the united states under the constitution was very young only about 12 years old and
compared to its size today the country was very small the land was not crowded most you've also
got a little quiz that you can do after so you do need to spend a little bit of time on this website
because there is actually a lot of material the quizzes at the bottom of the screen and
you can answer the questions lots of material here as I said it is a really interesting site
in terms of it's very well organized and it has a nice variety of content is also a video section
I really recommend that you take a look at voice of America
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