Video and audio resources

Video and audio resources

Video resources

1. TED

Ted is a collection of video talks / lectures from the world’s greatest thinkers and doers.

http://www.ted.com/

2.

5min Life Videopedia is a place to find short video solutions for every practical question.

http://www.5min.com/

3.

Commoncraft make presentations about products and services in plain English using short, unique and understandable videos in a format they call Paperworks.

4.

TeacherTube. Name says it all: like YouTube but for educational purposes.

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Science shack Science videos

7. Dotsub

http://dotsub.com/


Audio resources

Listen to a movie

http://listentoamovie.com/

Other listening sites

If you want to watch or listen to the news try these web sites

The BBC news page

http://news.bbc.co.uk/

Euronews has the latest video news in English

http://www.euronews.net/

On-line news hour.  Hourly news from P.B.S in the USA.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/newshour_index.html

World Radio Network.  Find and listen to radio stations form across the world online or download the podcasts.

http://www.wrn.org/

National Public Radio is an American news service that has news stories from around the world with written summaries available.  It also has podcasts.

http://www.npr.org/

Listen to and watch famous speeches from the History Channel

http://www.history.com/media.do

Top 100 Speeches is a site that has famous American speeches available for listeners

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/top100speechesall.html

Voice of America radio has news for learners of English with scripts

http://www.voanews.com/english/index.cfm

A moment of science has lots listenings and scripts on a range of scientific subjects.  Find out if Chimps are nice or why cigarette smoke is blue!

http://amos.indiana.edu/library/audio.html

The BBC World Service Learning English Watch and listen site has lots of listening with activities and some typescripts

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

Voices from the Archives is part of the BBC Audio Archives.  There are hundreds of interviews with famous people. Examples range from an interview with Crick and Watson recalling the discovery of DNA's molecular structure and UEA’s own Andrew Motion, the poet laureate, talking about his early life and influences.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/

News stories with exercises from the USA divided into categories.

http://literacynet.org/cnnsf/archives.html

BBC Radio 4 has an archive of many old and new radio programmes that can be listened to online or downloaded

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/atoz/

The Reith Lectures are available from the BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith/historic_audio/reith_historic.shtml

StoryCorps from the USA has lots of authentic listenings from ordinary people recounting extraordinary stories.  Perhaps more suitable for teachers.

http://www.storycorps.net/listen/