Oral Comprehension sites

UPDATE So now I can add the adresses, the links will come soon I hope.Not feasible yet. Not very convenient for you, potential students, (my pupils knw I'm a dreamer.) but just copy/paste {Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V)
to get there...

As you might have understood from my previous post, I unadvertently deleted the label ‘Oral Comprehension sites’ on your left and the links it contained.

I’ve managed to put it back, renaming it Oral Comprehension, to insert only one site in it : Randall’s site. But it’s not possible to add other sites. So here is a shortlist of the sites I want to be in this list under this label.

By the way, if you see some missing, do tell in the comment section. Thanks so much.

ORAL COMPREHENSION sites

http://elllo.org The best with Randall’s ! More than a thousand short audio documents, with vocabulary help, comprehension exercises and the script, but you DON’T want to read the script… you want to LISTEN several times to what people are saying. The script is only here for you to check your comprehension after you’ve listened to the audio for at least three times.

Conseils pour elllo on youtube. Thanks !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8rxkf0vQns

http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/

and more particularly here with very varied documents, audio or video

http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/listen-and-watch

Here is an example here about Dating. Interested students ?

http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/big-city-small-world/series-2-episode-10-date

http://howjsay.com/ Comment prononcer un mot ?

http://australianetwork.com/learningenglish/default.htm with its youtube page here :

http://www.youtube.com/user/australianetwork/videos?flow=list&view=0&sort=dd&query=learning+English+series

http://www.newsinlevels.com/

On the top bar, you see Level 1, 2 and 3. You can even test your level before you choose.Put your mouse on it and choose a subject you like.

http://www.podcastsinenglish.com/index.shtml

http://www.englishwithjennifer.com/youtube_videos.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsiqK8jGEWo&list=ECF8F4F464C322BFFF&index=1

http://www.agendaweb.org/

http://www.englishlistening.com/index.php

http://lp.babbel.com/d/FRA_index.html?l1=FRA&l2=ENG&ch=SEM

http://www.1-language.com/audiocourse/index.htm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/general/

http://www.5minuteenglish.com/listening.htm

http://www.manythings.org/listen/

OOPS

UPDATE here is what prevents me from refilling the OC list  after my careless move. Still, Blogger seems to be having problems: I found that here: http://knownissues.blogspot.fr/ 
Known issues for Blogger: 
The latest on what's still a problem, what's getting fixed, and what's been taken care of, direct from the Blogger team.

Wednesday, March 27, 2013
We're investigating reports of users not being able to edit the Link List gadget. We'll update this post as soon as we have more information. Thanks for your patience.

Today is March 30th ... so that makes 3 days for Blogger to try and fix and fail.  But hey! Let's be patient.
And I say Thank You Blogger guys and gals for your hard work. 
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Wow wow wow, I've just made a big mistake and deleted the LABEL with the Oral Comprehension great sites I've found on the marvellous Web.

SITES FOR YOU TO IMPROVE YOUR ENGLISH FOR FREE!

(Am I making myself clear dear pupils?)
So I'm going to have to put it up again and I will begin with Randall's site. http://esl-lab.com/
I started this blog because of this site. It made me realize how useful a blog could be for my pupils. Just to show them they had free access to many English recordings and that by listening to them EVERYDAY, they would get better and better at English.
Since then, I've made many other discoveries on the web.Enjoy! And sorry when the links are no longer valid. I was actually trying to remove the Macao link in the label OC sites when I deleted the whole bunch.

What is Wealth really like?

Too big for trial... An honest politician! Kuddos to Elizabeth Warren

Senator Elizabeth Warren embarrasses Bank Regulators at first hearing :

« What I want to know is, tell me a little bit about the last few times you’ve taken the biggest institutions on Wall Street all the way to a trial. …. Anybody ? »

Well, after the answers she got, repeating the same questions twice, she concludes : « You know, I just want a note on this : There are District attorneys and U.S. attorneys who are out there everyday squeezing ordinary citizens on sometimes very thin grounds and taking them to trial in order to ‘make an example’ as they put it. I’m really concerned that too big to fail has become too big for trial. » 

Japan's Prime Minister on 3/11: Naoto Kan

Naoto-san, thank you so much for speaking out.
My Experiences as Prime Minister during the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster from Cinema Forum Fukushima on Vimeo.

No headlines on the ongoing nuclear disaster -update

Still no headlines around Fuku Nuke plant. Not even for the anniversary of the big Tohoku earthquake.
Holy smoke! What a shame!

No headlines on the ongoing nuclear disaster

« Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Ongoing Disaster » doesn’t make the headlines though it should.

Still, here are some of the articles I was able to find today that feebly commemorate the accident, the man-made disaster that took place after the huge Magnitude 9 earthquake and the following tsunami.

Maybe it's too early in the U.S. and real HEADLINES will appear on the sites I've visited this morning.

I thought I'd see something like:
                     
           ONGOING DISASTER IN FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI

Anyway, I've found these articles on different issues:

NBC Rare tour of Fukushima reveals colossal decontamination efforts                   http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/08/17234000-rare-tour-of-fukushima-reveals-colossal-decontamination-efforts?lite

CNN  DEBRIS IN HAWAII

http://edition.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_c2#/video/us/2013/03/11/pkg-lah-japan-tsunami-debris.cnn

ABC  EMPTY SCHOOL in Namie, Japan

http://abcnews.go.com/International/fukushima-school-limbo-years-nuclear-disaster/story?id=18695762

WASHINGTON POST   A personal fight against nuclear power in Japan                http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/a-personal-fight-against-nuclear-power-in-japan/2013/03/09/ff64d5e4-882e-11e2-999e-5f8e0410cb9d_video.html


This video is from NBC news from last year... It ends with 'Consequences go on.' Indeed...

Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

The day begins in Japan. REMEMBER 3/11

JAPAN and FRANCE have at least one crucial thing in common. Both are nuclear nations.
Let us demand  transparent information on the ongoing nuclear catastrophe at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. The rest will follow.
Monday March 11, 2013 begins in Japan.  In less than a hour.
                         GANBATTE NIHON!

Impressive.

From the Guardian  Wednesday 6 March 2013 20.04 GMT

"General David Petraeus and 'dirty wars' veteran behind commando units implicated in detainee abuse."

Meet U.S.colonel James Steele, a Fascinating video

Advice from Stéphane Hessel

FOIA

"The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is a U.S. law that gives U.S. citizens the right to access information from the federal government. It is often described as the law that keeps citizens in the know about their government."

Here is a fascinating read that exemplifies the interest of the FOIA so very vividly.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/long-ago-wiretap-inspires-a-battle-with-the-cia-for-more-information/2013/03/02/8ebaa924-77b0-11e2-aa12-e6cf1d31106b_story.html


FOIA and its French equivalent: CADA.fr

Rosa was the spark..

President Obama helped unveil a bronze statue of activist Rosa Parks, whose 1955 refusal to give up her seat to a white man on a city bus in segregated Alabama was a pivotal moment in the civil rights movement. Parks became the first African-American woman to be honored with a full length statue in National Statuary Hall.

Changing the world is not easy and it takes times and many men and women like Rosa parks to change the world for the better.
From a great PBS article (and there's a video interview too) about a book called "The Rebellious Life of Rosa Parks" by Jeanne Theoharis, a political science professor at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York
Extract: Moreover, the Montgomery bus boycott did not transform America overnight. It took 382 days and hundreds of volunteers to force change, and that was years before the March on Washington. Parks and her husband Raymond lost their jobs and would not regain economic security until they moved far away, to Detroit. Parks would readily admit that she was hardly the first working black woman to refuse to give up her bus seat. It is important that the story get told well -- not, as "a romantic fable."

We're all one!

« What interesting to me about that is regardless of where I am, anywhere, every audience get that. It doesn’t matter. It’s the pentatonic scale for some reason. » Bobby McFerrin