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The BBC Radio 4 News

The BBC World Business Report

The Real Lives, Real Listening series of books
 

The BBC Radio 4 News

From Monday to Thursday institutions throughout the UK record the BBC Radio 4 News at 10am. Meanwhile I write three levels of intensive listening exercises with comprehensive answersheets which I guarantee to e-mail to customers by 12.30pm the same day.

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The BBC World Business Report

This 10-minute programme from the BBC World Service is an excellent source of Business English listening materials. It contains all the latest business news and regularly features interviews with non-native speakers or English. I provide a variety of exercises at intermediate + level and comprehensive answersheets to accompany the programme, together with a full transcript of the interviews and in-depth reports.

For more information about the BBC World Business Report service, please click here

The Real Lives, Real Listening series of books

Over the past three years I have been collecting interviews and group conversations with a huge number of native and non-native English speakers in order to produce my series of Real Lives, Real Listening books and, over the next year, a series of downloadable sound files.

The titles of the first three volumes are My Family, A Typical Day and A Place I Know Well. The first three books, all at Foundation Level, were piloted extensively over the winter of 2005 - 2006 and were published in summer 2006.


These books are unique for three reasons:
1. These are the first authentic listening books aimed at low-level learners
to feature 100% unscripted listening passages.
2. The main focus of each book is on listening training.
3. Each book contains recordings of speakers with a wide variety of accents.
For more information on the Real Lives, Real Listening series, please click here
 
     
  Richard Cauldwell of SpeechInAction shares my enthusiasm for using recordings of real speech:
http://www.speechinaction.com