{"id":22,"date":"2015-05-17T05:40:39","date_gmt":"2015-05-17T05:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freelanceteacherselfdevelopment.wordpress.com\/?p=22"},"modified":"2015-05-17T05:40:39","modified_gmt":"2015-05-17T05:40:39","slug":"authentic-listening-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/2015\/05\/17\/authentic-listening-material\/","title":{"rendered":"Authentic Listening Material"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been looking out for some authentic listening material for some of the Business English courses I teach. I just found a website called <a title=\"Freesound\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freesound.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Freesound<\/a> which has some fantastic <a title=\"Creative Commons\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Creative Commons<\/a>-licensed MP3 and wav files, free to download.<br \/>\nI downloaded some basic train and airport announcements and I am planning to have false beginner students listen for answers to the following questions:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>When does the announcement change to English?<\/li>\n<li>Which gate can you board the\u00a0plane from?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>In another class I&#8217;ll have some pre-intermediate students listen for answers to these questions:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>What is the new platform for the Penzance train?<\/li>\n<li>Does the Penzance train stop at Exeter St. David&#8217;s?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been looking out for some authentic listening material for some of the Business English courses I teach. I just found a website called Freesound which has some fantastic Creative Commons-licensed MP3 and wav files, free to download. I downloaded some basic train and airport announcements and I am planning to have false beginner students [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5,6,7],"tags":[39,90,160,220],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa34By-m","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}