World Of Movies
Description: Recorded message giving cinema information.
Language: Times of films being shown, plot outlines given using present simple.
Dialect: British English | Length: 1m 57s | Listening Number: 1L1
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A Musician's Day
Description: Rock star describes day's routine.
Language: Present simple to talk about daily routine of a famous musician.
Dialect: International English | Length: 2m 01s | Listening Number: 1L2
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The New Class
Description: A woman tells her male friend about her new Spanish class.
Language: Present Simple and present continuous. Description of people and places.
Dialect: North American / British English | Length: 2m 55s | Listening Number: 1L3
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Making Apple Pie
Description: Two friends discuss what is needed to make an apple pie.
Language: Quantifiers - few, many, enough, a lot, etc.
Dialect: North American / British English | Length: 1m 59s | Listening Number: 1L4
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Bookworms
Description: Woman carrying out survey about reading habits and book-buying habits. Male respondant.
Language: Present simple questions, some past simple.
Dialect: North American / British English | Length: 1m 49s | Listening Number: 1L5
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Leaving On A Jet Plane
Description: Two friends have a conversation during a flight to Los Angeles.
Language: Mainly present simple and past simple.
Dialect: North American English | Length: 2m 05s | Listening Number: 1L6
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Coming To Town
Description: Two friends have a conversation about a family member coming to visit.
Language: Expressing the future.
Dialect: North American English | Length: 2m 09s | Listening Number: 1L7
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At The Airport
Description: Two friends at the airport discussing their future vacation plans.
Language: Present simple, going to future, past simple.
Dialect: North American English | Length: 1m 58s | Listening Number: 1L8
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At The Department Store
Description: Male customer assistant helping female customer with information about where to find things in a department store.
Language: Present and past simple, first conditional, basic modals.
Dialect: North American English | Length: 2m 17s | Listening Number: 1L9
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Better Learning
Description: Four speakers talk about what they do to help themselves learn English better.
Language: Adjectives, how to improve your English learning.
Dialect: Multiple | Length: 2m 46s | Listening Number: 1L10
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Knowing Her Majesty
Description: Two friends talk about an assignment one of them has to write about Queen Elizabeth II.
Language: Present simple questions.
Dialect: Australian English | Length: 2m 41s | Listening Number: 1L11
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Perchance To Dream
Description: Survey about sleeping and dreaming.
Language: Present simple questions, adverbs of frequency.
Dialect: British English | Length: 2m 37s | Listening Number: 1L12
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