Hello LINC 7 Students,
In clarifying your SMART goals for this month and this term, I'd like you to check on certain websites that may be useful for you.
1. http://www.esl-lab.com/
This site has a lot of great listening quizzes to help you improve your listening skills. Choose from either the medium or difficult categories. You can commit to doing one or two quizzes every day for the next month. That will improve your listening for sure! A measurable result would be moving from the "medium" quizzes to the "difficult" quizzes in one month!
2. http://www.elllo.org/
Here's another website that has some great listening activities. Check it out. There's ESL material from around the world here! Yeah! Here's a link to a conversation about "helicopter parents" and "tiger moms"! Do you know what we mean when we use these terms / idioms?
3. http://www.cbc.ca/news
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) is a trusted source of news and current affairs. Any news story that affects Canadians should be covered on this website. For example, actress Meryl Streep made international news when she criticized Donal Trump's behaviour in her speech at the Golden Globe awards on Sunday. Here's the link to this story.
4. http://www.cbc.ca/manitoba/eal/
CBC Manitoba has excellent materials for newcomers. There are 99 current events stories about Canadians and Canadian issues! Check out this link to a story on a former Somali refugee who is helping to raise money to establish a pre-school in a refugee camp in Kenya.
5. http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/index.html
Another great website! Check out the latest story on how zombies could wipe out the human race in 100 days! Yikes! Fortunately, they have happy stories as well! The site offers different reading speed, text of the script and different accents of English.
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