CK's English Study Podcast

Recently, www.ManyThings.org (Insteresting Things for ESL Students) has updated many of its listening pages to work with an iPad.

This is the short URL to get there.

bit.ly/ipadmt.

Of course, these pages and MP3 files will work on a regular computer, too.  

There are 28 sentence examples.

http://www.manythings.org/j
  

http://www.manythings.org/b/e/2512
Listen and repeat each word 2 times to help brush up your English pronunciation. Then, come back again tomorrow and practice again.

The video was made in Nagoya.

  

ケリー兄弟のインターネット上の英語教材   

The head of NATO has called for more non-American troops to be sent to Afghanistan to prevent it from becoming a hiding place for terrorists. NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer welcomes President-elect Barack Obama's promise to increase troop levels. But, he said increasing American troop levels is not enough. Mr. de Hoop Scheffer spoke to the NATO parliamentary assembly's yearly meeting. He said all NATO allies need to make greater efforts for the military, economic and civilian development of Afghanistan.

VOA Special English, November 18, 2008  

Taliban militants have rejected an offer to hold peace talks with Afgan president, Hamid Karzai. Taliban leaders again said there can be no talks while foreign troops are in Afganistan. On Sunday, Mr. Karzai said he would provide security for Taliban leaber ...  

Thanksgiving = 11月の第四木曜日

Thanksgiving Day (感謝祭)はアメリカの祝日です。

Listen and Repeat:

Slow:

Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving

Just a Little Slow

Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving

Normal:

Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving

Be careful with the "th" and the "v".
Also, be careful with the vowel sounds（母音).

You can read about Thanksgiving Day here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving.   

Americans often eat turkey on Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.

Listen and Repeat:

By syllable:

tur key

Slowly:

turkey, turkey

Normal Speed:

turkey, turkey, turkey

Click the button again and again and again until you sound like an American.

Turkey is a bird and also a country.
See some images:
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=turkey  

Listen and repeat over and over until you can get the rhythm and intonation the same as the speaker.

• Are you going to go shopping next weekend?
  
• How often do you play volleyball?
  
• Is your mother at home now?
  
• Was your high school's baseball team a good team?
  
• Were you at home last Sunday?

You can do this kind of practice with new sentences every day here.
American Engish Pronunciation: Listen and Repeat Machine (New Content Every Day)
(www.manythings.org/lar)
  

Listen and Repeat

• blue, black, blood, clean, class, clock, clever, glad, glass, gloves, floor, flag, flower, fly, place, plastic, please, plan, sleep, slow, slipper.
• break, bread, breakfast, crazy, cry, draw, dress, driver, Friday, friend, from, great, grandfather, green, present, pretty, promise, train, tree.
• Minimal Pairs
  • cloud-crowd
  • climb-crime
  • clutch-crutch
  • clown-crown
  • flee-free
  • fly-fry
  Try the Lesson 23 Minimal Pair Practice Quiz at www.manythings.org.