Listening Exercises - Intermediate Level
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You've Changed!
Description: Two friends meet after not seeing each other for a long time.
Language: Present Perfect to talk about changes.
Dialect: North American & British English | Length: 2m 47s | Listening Number: 3L1
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Listening Quiz 1 - You've Changed!
Listening Quiz 2 - You've Changed! 2
Sports news on the radio.
Description: Bulletin of sports news.
Language: Vocabulary of sports - tennis, golf, motor racing, baseball, etc.
Dialect: British English | Length: 3m 09s | Listening Number: 3L2
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Listening Quiz 1 - Sports Roundup
Listening Quiz 2 - Sports Roundup 2
Haybridge Hall
Description: Listen to this tourist guide as you walk through an old country house.
Language: History of a building, past simple, past simple passive.
Dialect: North American English | Length: 3m 39s | Listening Number: 3L3
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Listening Quiz 1 - Haybridge Hall
Listening Quiz 2 - Haybridge Hall
Online Trouble
Description: A website customer calls online support to report a problem with the website.
Language: Problems with ordering online, internet vocabulary.
Dialect: North American English | Length: 3m 19s | Listening Number: 3L4
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Listening Quiz 1 - Online Trouble
Listening Quiz 2 - Online Trouble 2
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Parent/Teacher Meeting
Description: A mother speaks to a teacher about her son's progress and behavior.
Language: Question tags.
Dialect: North American English | Length: 3m 22s | Listening Number: 3L5
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Listening Quiz 1 - Parent/Teacher Meeting
Listening Quiz 2 - Parent/Teacher Meeting 2
The Answering Machine Complaint
Description: A customer leaves a message of complaint on an answering machine.
Language: Complaints, personal details.
Dialect: British English | Length: 3m 11s | Listening Number: 3L6
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Listening Quiz 1 - The Answering Machine Complaint
Listening Quiz 2 - The Answering Machine Complaint 2
Love Is In The Air
Description: Carolina talks about the great love story in her life.
Language: Subject/object questions, past simple describing narrative.
Dialect: British English & International English | Length: 3m 26s | Listening Number: 3L7
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Listening Quiz 1 - Love Is In The Air
Listening Quiz 2 - Love Is In The Air 2
Here Is The News
Description: Brief bulletin of world news on the radio.
Language: Use of present perfect to describe recent events.
Dialect: British English | Length: 3m 01s | Listening Number: 3L8
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Listening Quiz 1 - Here Is The News
Listening Quiz 2 - Here Is The News 2
The Room-Mates
Description: Two friends discuss some problems they are having living together in the apartment.
Language: Use of should/shouldn't to express obligation politely.
Dialect: North American English | Length: 2m 31s | Listening Number: 3L9
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Listening Quiz 1 - The Room-Mates
Listening Quiz 2 - The Room-Mates 2
Democracy In Action
Description: A politician speaks to a potential voter on the doorstep.
Language: Politics vocabulary, going to for future intentions.
Dialect: North American English | Length: 2m 24s | Listening Number: 3L10
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Listening Quiz 1 - Democracy In Action
Listening Quiz 2 - Democracy In Action 2
Eavesdropping
Description: What are these people talking about? It's not very clear, is it?
Language: Mix of past, present and future tenses among the mini-dialogues. Subjects of conversations never made explicit.
Dialect: North American & British English | Length: 2m 55s | Listening Number: 3L11
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Listening Quiz 1 - Eavesdropping
Listening Quiz 2 - Eavesdropping
The Island Of Vanuatu
Description: Presentation of facts and figures about Vanuatu by single speaker, island nation in the Pacific.
Language: Dense load of statistical data: numbers, dates, etc. Good for practice of listening for specific information.
Dialect: North American | Length: 4m 41s | Listening Number: 3L12
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Listening Quiz 1 - The Island Of Vanuatu
Listening Quiz 2 - The Island Of Vanuatu 2
