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Listening comprehension & note-taking: Exercises

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General listening

Advanced Conversational English

A Driving Incident RP WMP QT

Sex Education in Schools RP WMP QT

General

A Double Life RP WMP QT FP

Escape from Hanley Park RP WMP QT FP

Prince Albert and the Jewel Robbers RP WMP QT FP

The Lion and Albert RP WMP QT FP

Albert's Return RP WMP QT FP

Lolita (extract read by Vladimir Nabokov) RP WMP QT FP

Redundancy RP WMP QT FP FP

Speeches

Abraham Lincoln - Gettysburg Address 19/11/1863 RP WMP

Amy Johnson 09/06/30 RP WMP

Frankin D. Roosevelt - Inauguration 03/04/1933 RP WMP QT

Winston Churchill 13/05/40 RP WMP

Winston Churchill 04/06/1940 RP WMP

Winston Churchill 20/08/40 RP WMP

Aneurin Bevan 04/11/56 RP WMP

Harold Macmillan - Cape Town 03/02/60 RP WMP QT

John F Kennedy - Presidential Inauguration 20/01/61 RP WMP

Francis Crick - 13/11/62 RP WMP

John F Kennedy - 22/10/62 RP WMP

Martin Luther King - Washington 08/08/63 RP WMP QT

Nelson Mandela - 1964 RP WMP QT

Harold Wilson - 19/11/67 RP WMP QT

Margaret Thatcher - 10/10/80 RP WMP

Nelson Mandela - Inaugural Speech 09/05/94 RP WMP

Prince Charles - Hong Kong 01/07/97 RP WMP QT

Tony Blair - Cambridge 13/09/99 RP WMP

Michael Moore - 11/09/01 RP WMP

Tony Blair - Brighton 02/10/01 RP WMP QT

Australian Federal Budget Speech 2002-2003 RP WMP

George Bush - London 19/11/03 RP WMP QT

Sonia Shah: Crude 01/10/04 RP WMP

Tony Blair - Brighton 28/09/04 RP WMP

Ayad Allawi - London 29/09/04 RP WMP QT

George Bush - Inaugural Speech 20/01/05 RP WMP

Queen's Speech - Opening Parliament 17/05/05 RP WMP

Gordon Brown - Budget Speech 22/03/06 RP WMP

Tony Blair - Conference Speech 26/09/06 RP WMP

Tony Blair - Resignation Speech 10/05/07 RP WMP

Gordon Brown - Prime Minister 24/09/07 RP WMP

Alistair Darling - Budget Speech 12/03/08 RP WMP QT

Barack Obama - Inauguration 20/01/09 RP WMP QT

Speech Extracts

Amelia Earhart - Feb 1931 RP WMP

Franklin D Roosevelt - Inauguration - 04/03/33 RP WMP

Winston Churchill - 04/06/40 RP WMP

Jawaharlal Nehru - A tryst with destiny 14/08/47 RP WMP

Eleanor Roosevelt - Human Rights 09/12/48 RP WMP

J F Kennedy - Inauguration 1961 RP WMP QT FP

Harold Wilson - Scarborough 01/10/63 RP WMP QT

Harold Macmillan - Cape Town 03/02/60 RP WMP QT

Nelson Mandela - Pretoria 20/04/64 RP WMP

Malcolm X RP WMP QT FP

Margaret Thatcher - Invasion of Falkland Islands 03/04/82 RP WMP

Bertrand Russell RP WMP QT FP

George Bush - The Bombing of Iraq - 17/01/91 RP WMP

Ronald Reagan - On being shot RP WMP

Eddie George - Hertfordshire 14/02/99 RP WMP

Condoleezza Rice - London 26/06/03 RP WMP

Stephen Hawking RP WMP QT FP

Hilary Clinton RP WMP QT FP

George Bush - Swearing In as President 20/01/05 RP WMP

Barack Obama - Swearing In as President 20/01/09 RP WMP QT

Barack Obama - 2/12/09 on Afghanistan RP WMP QT FP

Discussions

Future of Computing RP WMP

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