If
you're looking for upper-intermediate to advanced level listening practice the
Internet is awash with opportunities. This page will show you how to get organised
with the iTunes and then offer suggestions to visit.
ESL listening practise
using iTunes If you're looking for ideas for self-study activities a great
place to start is to use podcasts. If this is a technology you have little experience
of see our introduction
to podcasting for English teachers.
iTunes is a piece of software you
can use to to subscribe to a podcasting service allowing you to episodes as soon
as they get published - automatically without doing a thing. Take our own Splendid
Speaking podcast. Here's an example if you're new to our website:
Subscribing to Splendid Speaking and other podcasts on Apple's
iTunes is pretty straightforward and it's also completely free!
1. Download
iTunes here (look out for 'iTunes Download now' or something similar): http://www.apple.com/itunes
2.
With iTunes installed they simply subscribe to Splendid Speaking by going to
this address: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=210821315 This
will then start iTunes and open up the Splendid Speaking page in the iTunes
directory. Clicking the 'Subscribe' button will download the Splendid Speaking
podcast as it becomes available each week.
Your students can then listen
to the recording on a PC or, if they use a compatible MP3 player, on the move
wherever and whenever they have the time!
And if your students subscribe
to the Splendid Speaking Newsletter they'll also be able to follow the recording
with their free transcripts. Here's the Newsletter link to give them: http://www.splendid-speaking.com/subscribe1.html
