Oral english Useful Tips

Here are some useful tips to improve your oral English, your understanding of this beautiful language and your pronunciation and accent when you speak it. Make the pleasure last and enjoy!

THE BEST WAYS TO IMPROVE YOUR ORAL ENGLISH

• speak with native speakers or foreigners who speak English

• listen to English language everyday:

- watching films or series in English version with the subtitles in English

- listening to songs in English with the lyrics (many websites propose the lyrics of any sort of songs) and singing

- listening to Anglo-Saxon radios:

 BBC radios (different channels for music, sport, culture, etc…) http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/

 US public radio network (NPR) and a selection of BBC radio stations http://www.englishpage.com/listening/

ORAL COMPREHENSION (to work in autonomy: listen, read and repeat)

• 2 websites to train your oral comprehension with short recordings about everyday life with different levels

http://www.audio-lingua.eu/ and http://www.esl-lab.com/ ( with listening exercises and vocabulary activities)

• conversations with script, vocabulary help, different levels, videos, quiz, games… http://www.elllo.org/index.htm

• short audio documents and videos about various themes (news, culture, series, voc, gram, quiz , etc…)

and humour (so British !) for pupils, students, adults who are learning English

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

• the news with articles, audio document, vocabulary help and lesson http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/

• the news in Voice of America read slowly with a vocabulary adapted for English learners and captioned videos (= with subtitles) http://www.voanews.com/learningenglish/home/

• the news everywhere in the world (audio + video) http://news.bbc.co.uk/

• audio reports and podcasts from The Guardian (a famous British newspaper) http://www.guardian.co.uk/audio

PRONUNCIATION AND ACCENT

• English words and sentences' pronunciation http://www.readthewords.com/

ONLINE DICTIONARIES

• French-English / English-French dictionary http://www.wordreference.com/

• visual dictionary http://visual.merriam-webster.com/index.php + English dictionary http://www.yourdictionary.com/

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