ELTWeekly Issue#20, Article: An i on podcasts

By Tarun Patel

An i on podcasts

By Karenne Sylvester

This article first appeared on Kalinago English (http://how2learnenglish.blogspot.com/)

A great way to learn English is by listening to English.

There are many podcasts (short files of audio regularly delivered to your computer) available on i-tunes.

i-tunes is free of charge, you can download it from here.

Once you have an i-tunes account, you can go over to the directory, type in Learn English and you will find many options to stick on your mp3 player.

Here’s a list of some of my favorite podcasts for learning English:

English Pod= business topics and more – divided into levels
Business English pod= only business – focus on vocabulary, very good
Business Spotlight= only business – various skills based recordings. Excellent.

Grammar challenge= by the BBC, focus on grammar issues
6 minute English= authentic vocab, casual recordings, also by the BBC. Lively.

English through stories= by ESL pod, learning by listening to dramatic stories with video

EF podEnglish= 5 minute situational videos
CNN student news= designed for teens in America, see my posting on this here to find these within i-tunes:

go to ~podcast directory, bottom right-hand side of the page.
type “name” of one of the above in the search bar, top right-hand side of the page.

Karenne Sylvester is a certified TESOL trainer, working as a freelancer in Stuttgart, Germany and she specialize in teaching adult learners in the financial/ banking, energy, engineering and IT sectors.

She has lived and worked all over the world: from the Caribbean to the US, UK, Australia, Hong Kong and Ecuador.

She is the sole proprietor and webmaster of Kalinago English and author of SimplyConversationsTM, a pedagogically sound speaking skills system, designed to activate language learners’ fluency.

**Reprinted with kind permission, Karenne Sylvester of Kalinago English (http://kalinago.blogspot.com/).

*** ELTWeekly would like to thank Karenne Sylvester for contributing this article.

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About... Tarun Patel

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Tarun Patel (http://tarunpatel.net/blog/) is an ELT and Communication skills teacher, working with Charotar University of Science & Technology (CHARUSAT - http://charusat.ac.in/). He has been dealing with the Language learning processes for last seven years. 'Technology in Teaching English' is his favorite domain and he has presented several research papers in national and international conferences on the same theme. He is the founder editor of ELTWeekly (http://eltweekly.com/), India's first weekly ELT eNewsletter which reaches in more than forty countries and benefits more than 1600d teachers of English and Communication Skills. Have a look at his personal blog http://tarunpatel.net/blog/.