Here are some links I put together for you. Word reference calm. Here, you can hear the pronunciation and see the phonetic spelling of words. ESL bits dotnet songs and stories to read and listen to. Many things orc hear they have lots of things to listen to American literature calm, lots of things to read. And ted.com they have so many short videos with subtitles.
Okay, let's go to these websites. Here we are at word reference calm here. You can type in a word. Let's take this one And you can listen to it, you have the choice of different English accents. Us UK, Irish. Of course I prefer us pronunciation and here is the phonetic spelling.
So, let's have a listen. Alright, so let's go on to the next one. Here we are at ESL bits dotnet. Here we have lots of things to read and to listen to. But what I want to show you is down here, songs, listen, read and sing along Here we have lots of great songs by lots of great artists. I'm going to go down here to the Beach Boys.
And I'm going to choose Ah, of course, California girls. Here you see first a picture. And down here we have the lyrics nice and big. And up here, you can play the mp3 Okay, let's have a listen out Okay, that was really cool. Let's go back to the start home. And I want to show you another good thing.
Let's go to short stories. Here I picked one. Car wars. Okay, here you see the words nice and big. And again, we can play it. Here we have faster listening speed or slower listening speed.
Let's listen. Burbank high zero tolerance reminder. Dear parents, I hate to start the year with bad news but I'd rather it be this than a letter of condolence to A parent whose child has been killed in a senseless wreck. Okay, let's go on to many things.org. Now this website really has many things. But I want to show you one thing that I really like here reading with audio.
So here we have different topics. I'm going to go to about things and tear. I'm going to about tornadoes. So here we have about tornadoes. You can listen it's about 15 and a half minutes and below you have the text. Also nice and big and tear.
You can also download the mp3 Okay, let's have a listen. This week, we will tell about the science of tornadoes. Tornadoes have been observed in many parts of the world. But the storms are most often found in the United States. This website, American literature.com has lots of American things to read. Short Stories, Halloween stories, children's stories, novels.
Well, let's look at children's stories. Short stories for children. Let's look at the first one, the three little pigs. So you see the text is also very big. Now this side doesn't have any mp3 was listening, but that's okay. You can read it.
Find New vocabulary and read it out loud. Just have a look and enjoy this website ted.com. Ted stands for technology, entertainment and design. Let's look here. Watch TED Talks. So here, you can search.
Choose a topic, or let's say science. You can choose the language. And of course we're going to choose English. And what's really good is the duration. How long we can just pick a short video. zero to six minutes.
Let's scroll down. And how about finding planets around other stars? This video is under six minutes. Okay, let's start it. planetary systems outside our own are like distance cities whose lights we can see twinkling, but whose streets we can't walk. So I'm going to pause it and of course this is natural English, so it's pretty fast.
But what's good about these Ted videos is you can turn on subtitles. So let's choose English and play again. planetary systems outside our own our like distance cities, whose lights we can see twinkling, but who streets we can't walk By studying those twinkling lights though, we can learn about how stars and planets interact to form their own ecosystem and make habitats that are amenable to life. Well, those were my links for you to help you practice your pronunciation at home. What's important is that you do something every day. If you just read a little bit, listen thing a song.
Just do something every day and you will get better