LISTENING COMPREHENSION ACTIVITIES

B1(high intermediate)-B2(advanced)

MICHAEL JACKSON

ELVIS PRESLEY

THE BEATLES

DIRTY DANCING

AMELIA EARTHART

APOLLO 11

AVATAR

THE CITY OF CAMBRIDGE

BRITISH FOOD

BRITISH SUMMER WEATHER

HITCHCOCK'S SILENT FILMS

NEW YORK TOURIST ATTRACTIONS

CLIMATE CHANGE

THE TOWER OF LONDON

HEALTHY EATING

LONDON AIR POLUTTION

THE HISTORY OF CARDIFF

HOW TO BE HAPPY

DUBLIN PUB'S

HURRICANES

JAMES BOND

FRUIT IDIOMS

SHOPPING IN OXFORD STREET

GREEN PROJECTS

LISTENING COMPREHENSION ACTIVITIES

PRE-INTERMEDIATE- LOW INTERMEDIATE

LISTENING COMPREHENSION

THE BERLIN WALL

OBAMA LISTENING ACTIVITY

Barack Obama was born to a white American mother, Ann Dunham, and a black Kenyan father, Barack Obama Sr., who were both young college students at the University of Hawaii. When his father left for Harvard, she and Barack stayed behind, and his father ultimately returned alone to Kenya, where he worked as a government economist. Barack's mother remarried an Indonesian oil manager and moved to Jakarta when Barack was six. He later recounted Indonesia as simultaneously lush and a harrowing exposure to tropical poverty. He returned to Hawaii, where he was brought up largely by his grandparents. The family lived in a small apartment - his grandfather was a furniture salesman and an unsuccessful insurance agent and his grandmother worked in a bank - but Barack managed to get into Punahou School, Hawaii's top prep academy. His father wrote to him regularly but, though he traveled around the world on official business for Kenya, he visited only once, when Barack was ten. Obama attended Columbia University, but found New York's racial tension inescapable. He became a community organizer for a small Chicago church-based group for three years, helping poor South Side residents cope with a wave of plant closings. He then attended Harvard Law School, and in 1990 became the first African-American editor of the Harvard Law Review. He turned down a prestigious judicial clerkship, choosing instead to practice civil-rights law back in Chicago, representing victims of housing and employment discrimination and working on voting-rights legislation. He also began teaching at the University of Chicago Law School, and married Michelle Robinson, a fellow attorney. Eventually he was elected to the Illinois state senate, where his district included both Hyde Park and some of the poorest ghettos on the South Side. In 2004 Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate as a Democrat, representing Illinois, and he gained national attention by giving a rousing and well-received keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention in Boston. In 2008 he ran for President, and despite having only four years of national political experience, he won. In January 2009, he was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States, and the first African-American ever elected to that position. Obama was reelected to a second term in November 2012.

STREET SOCCER LISTENING  

ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL

WIMBLEDON

LIKES AND DISLIKES

WORLD'S GREATEST SUPERFAN. NELSON PAVIOTTI

SAMMY THE SHOPLIFTING SEAGULL

THE WHITE HOUSE EASTER EGG ROLL

BEGINNER LISTENING SLIDE QUIZZES

BEGINNER/BASIC SLIDE QUIZZES ONLINE

COMPUTERS IN CLASS

THE GRANDFATHER

JOB OPTIONS

GREAT PLACES

RINA'S NEXT TATTOO

UNIVERSITY LIFE

 FAVOURITE DRINKS

SHUANG HONG KONG
TRAVEL TIPS FOR IRELAND
HAWAII TRAVEL TIPS
BIG COMPANY VS SMALL COMPANY
EXTRA
WEDDING DAY
THE PLAYERS
BEST CITIES
GOOD QUALITIES
BREAKFAST
TRAVEL OPTIONS
FAVOURITE MOVIE
NEW YORK NEW YORK
COOL JOBS
BECOME CHEF
THE GLOBAL FAMILY
CARS OF THE FUTURE
CHANGING WEATHER
SAVING ENERGY
FRED'S GIFT
SHOPPING PEEVES
ACCIDENTAL FEELINGS
SPEED DATING
BEING A WOMAN
FATTY FOOD
AFTER THE PARTY
ONLINE DATING