English Out There has created a suite of English language teaching and learning materials that involve focused real speaking and listening practice in every lesson. English Out There is the world’s first English program specially designed to work with social media and free internet telephony. 250,000 hours of teaching and testing has created a unique global offering that can be used in any ELT environment and combines psycholinguistics with tasks with social learning.

The English Out There system is: learn.english.social

• Teach in class or online using worksheets (Input)
• Teachers and students go out into the real world (English speaking countries) or students keep worksheets and go online for homework or in their next class using school PCs, home PC or internet café
• Students speak to five people in the real world or their online practice partners sourced via sites like Facebook.com, Italki.com or Skype (Activity: 25-30 min per lesson)
• Students record conversations (mobile phone in real world or online), listen again and email to their teacher or upload onto MP3 player to listen again (Result)
• Teacher and students sit down for discussion (real world); teacher listens to MP3s or students play them in next class (Learning consolidation)

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