Sites with vocabulary, transcripts exercises etc
- The English Blog (B2 C1—all skills)
http://www.jeffreyhill.typepad.com/english/
- Guardian Weekly Learn English—reading comprehension exercises (all levels)—two sources:
Sign up and get classroom materials, especially reading comprehension exercises
http://www.guardianweekly.co.uk/learningenglish
http://www.onestopenglish.com/
- New York Times learning blog
http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/
- United Nations multimedia
Radio and TV http://www.unmultimedia.org/
Euronews (B2) http://www.euronews.net/
- CNN news and transcripts (B2 C1)
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/
- ABC (C1) - three video programmes with transcript
http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/ Documentaries with transcript—about 10 minutes long
http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/
ABC (Australian) Foreign Correspondent—weekly documentary news programme with transcript—about 30 mins
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/ News programmes with transcript—varying lengths
- BBC news (C1) summaries and videos
http://news.bbc.co.uk/
- United Nations multimedia (B2 C1)
TV webcasts with transcript http://www.un.org/av/unfamily/unia.html
- Video Nation (B2 -listening) http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/youmeus/videonation/video_nation_index.shtml
2 Sites without support (C1)
- Newsweek
http://www.newsweek.com/ (read and listen to videos etc)
- Guardian Weekly
http://www.guardianweekly.co.uk/
- Times online
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/
- BBC—Video Nation (B2 C1)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/videonation/archive/
- Radio
http://www.unmultimedia.org/radio/english/
- TED (C1) —riveting talks by remarkable people
http://www.ted.com/