Some exercises to help you train your ear to the sounds of English: glottal stops, schwas, different local accents, or just plain listening…
- short phrases audio matching exercise
2. another short phrases audio matching exercise
3. some longer audio matching exercises which will help you revise your aviation knowledge.
exercise 1
exercise 2
exercise 3
Please excuse this momentary deviation from aviation but here’s a fun motorcycle audio matching exercise we made for some biker friends to prepare for riding Route 66
And now, how about some traffic listening, read by ENAC teachers. This is a tough exercise, so you’d better first go through the preparation exercise proposed on the live traffic page.
Would you like more of this? Here’s part 2 of the traffic exercise read by ENAC teachers.
Here’s a tool for students who need to improve their listening: check out the suggestion about Ted Talks transcripts under the page “Teaching Tools and Tricks“
Here are some accents from different parts of the world
Under construction: Here’s some fun with Limericks. Do you know what a Limerick is?