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).
You can choose one or two of these suggestions – you don't have to follow all of them!
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.
Where was the speaker born?
Delaware
California
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Where did the speaker go to high school?
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Delaware
California
Why does the speaker think moving around has been good for her?
It taught her good social skills.
She knows the country very well.
it helped her with her school work.
She had the experience of different places.
What is this talk mainly about?
Where she liked living best
Where she went to school
Why she moved a lot
Why she prefers the west coast
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As a child I moved around a lot.
I was born in Maryland.
And then I moved to Delaware when I was two years old.
And then, when I was six years old, I moved back to Maryland.
And I started first grade there.
And, I went first through fourth grade in Maryland.
Then I moved to Pennsylvania.
And, I lived there from fifth grade sixth grade, and then part of seventh grade.
Then I moved all the way across the country to the west coast, in sunny California.
And I stayed there, all the way through my junior year in high school, which is eleventh grade.
And then, very unexpectedly we moved to Princeton New Jersey, which is clear across the country, back again on east coast.
And I have been living there ever since, two years now.
The cool thing about moving is I've made a lot of friends, and it's taught me to be very social.
I have a best friend in Pennsylvania, a best friend in Maryland and a best friend in California.
So you make a lot of friends when you move.