Watch the videos and learn how to do lots of different things like...how to do magic and party tricks, how to care for kittens, how to fix a dripping tap.
A site with videos which teachers can use as a classroom resource. All content is pre-checked so there should be no unsuitable content on the site. However, there is a fee to join the site.
VideoJug is a video-sharing website with lots of how-to clips & interviews. One particularly nice feature is that a number of the videos have transcripts, which makes it especially easy to create lessons based on them, copyight permitting, of course.
This podcast site has real conversations in English at 3 levels from elementary to upper intermediate. Each listening is from 3 to 7 minutes on a whole variety of interesting topics.
A collaboration between the BBC's international commercial television channel adn YouTube. Around 30 news clips per day will be offered, with up-to-the-minute news and analysis from around the world.
From the BBC in collaboration with YouTube. An entertainment channel showing clips from material such as Top Gear, Spooks, The Catherine Tate Show, The Mighty Boosh and a range of factual programmes including Wildlife documentaries presented by David Attenborough.
From the Britsh Council LearnEnglish website. Use songs from the top of the charts to help your students with their English. Students can read the lyrics, visit the artists' websites, read their biographies and do language activities.
A selection of videos taken from the BBC Video Nation archive with comprehension exercises, tapescripts, practise grammar and vocabulary skills in Language Fix.
This site features listening texts on a variety of topics. In the free guests area there are thirty authentic passages, graded into three broad levels, from New Listeners to more advanced level listeners, each lasting from 30 seconds to 5 minutes.
Free registration on this site gives access to a variety of language activities. There are various listening resources, such as an interactive Treasure Hunt based on audio cues, and an Identikit activity in which students listen to a description of a person and draw them using the tools on the page.
