Summer Revision PART 2: LISTENING

If you have failed the LISTENING part, then find in the Archive the two entries with listening links that I posted last term and go there for practice. If you find any other interesting links on the internet with listening practice, please email them to me so I can blog them.

Also, you should be listening to the radio in English at all times. You are lucky to live in Málaga where there are so many English radio stations to be tuned. Here are some:

• OCI (ONDA CERO INTERNATIONAL) - 101.6FM & 98.4 FM
• REM.FM - 104.8FM & 91.9FM
• SPECTRUM FM - 105.5FM
• WAVE 96 FM - 96.0FM
• ACE FM 106.8FM
• CENTRAL FM - 98.6FM & 103.8FM
• COASTLINE FM - 97.6FM (WEST) 93.3FM(EAST)
• GLOBAL RADIO - 96.5FM
• RADIO MIJAS - 107.7FM

Any First Certificate Listening course will provide you with the necessary exam practice. There are a lot of them which you can find in any bookshop that has a section for English as a Foreign Language. Cambridge, of course, is the leading publisher in this field.

Finally, if you happen to have an i-pod and are used to downloading podcasts with i-tunes, there are many interesting ones on learning English. You can start with some of those offered by the BBC, such as:

• 6-minute English http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/radio/specials/144_6minute/
• Grammar Challenge http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/podcasts/gc/
• or Talk about English http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/podcasts/tae/