oCoder Education - English listening Audios are suitable for learners with different levels of English. Here are some ways to make them easier (if you have a lower level of English) or more difficult (if you have a higher level of English).
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Making it easier
Read all the exercises before you listen to the audio.
Look up the words in the exercises that you don't know or don't understand in a dictionary.
Play the audio as many times as you need.
Play each part of the audio separately.
Answer all questions in the exercise.
Read the transcript after you have listened to the audio.
Making it harder
Listen to the audio before you read the exercises.
Only play the audio once before answering the questions.
Play the whole audio without a break.
Don't read the transcript.
Now, listen to the audio and do the exercises on the following tabs.
If you do not complete all the question, you can play the audio again.
After that, read the dialog to make sure that you understand all word in the audio.
What did the speaker do after secondary school?
He joined a band.
He joined the military.
He went to university for a year.
He travelled overseas.
What is the reason the speaker always had to do some work?
To pay for school
To pay the rent
To buy his drums
To buy a car
When did the speaker learn to play the drums?
At school
After work
In the mornings
On the weekends
What is this talk mainly about?
The job training he received
The jobs that an engineer does
The jobs the speaker has done
The jobs the speaker didn't like
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After secondary school, um, wh- what some people do is go on to further education.
I went to university for a year.
And I studied aeronautical engineering.
I decided that this wasn't quite, my cup of tea, after the first term.
And after that, embarked on a very very long holiday.
At the end of the first year I left university and didn't look back.
I got a flat together with some people and started a new job, working in a factory somewhere in North London.
I didn't like the job too much.
So, af- after about six months I left that job.
And then did a string of various jobs um, changing every two, three weeks I think it was.
I always had to do some work in some way shape or form to pay the rent.
So, after about the first year I think it was I had sort of done, uh, a fair spectrum of things.
Um, after that, um, I, started becoming a_ well I started decorating restaurants.
I met a couple of artists who were doing that sort of thing.
And they, they got contract work.
So I joined in with them.
They also played music.
And that's how I ended up starting to play the drums.
In the evenings after they'd finished work, they'd sort of sit around the restaurant.
And we'd get fed, and that was very grand.
And we'd drink and, about ten, eleven o'clock in the evening, we'd sort of get up our instruments and just jam.
I started doing that when I was about_ what, twenty.
And, have been playing the drums ever since.
And now it's eight nine years on.
So, I've been playing for quite a long time.