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Micro-listenings
Get regular English listening practice in a range of accents with these quick micro-listening exercises. View archive
Intensive Listening
Longer listening exercises using natural English. View archive
Running a skyrace
We hear about one of the UK’s most challenging ultramarathons, which takes runners straight up one of the steepest mountains in the Scottish Highlands. Three sequencing exercises to practise listening for specific words.
Curiosity’s birthday
To celebrate the Curiosity Rover’s first year on Mars, Nasa engineers programmed it to sing Happy Birthday to itself. Was this sad, or beautiful? Practise your listening with two challenging exercises – spot the mistakes, and before/after.
A dying trade
Four micro-listening exercises – a man with a London accent speaks about his work as a hand engraver.
Vocabulary micro-listenings
Learn new phrasal verbs, idioms and Business English expressions while practising your English listening skills
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