listening
Develop your English listening and reading skills using our MP3 audio files and scripts. You can listen to the files online, or download them onto your PC and put them on your MP3 player, then see if you've understood by reading the scripts. : listen to an interview with a person who works at the stadium on match day to get everybody in the right place before the game is about to kick off.
Paul Hunn of north London holds the world record for the loudest burp: he can burp at a volume of over 118 decibels. John Evans of Sheffield can balance 62 books on his head.
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club photographer knows everybody’s secrets. He knows where to find the players and the manager and where they’re going after the game.
: listen to an interview with Stamford the Lion, the mascot of Chelsea Football Club.
This funny ballad by ‘Banjo’ Paterson (whose most famous work is undoubtedly Waltzing Matilda) describes what happens when Mulga Bill swaps his trusted horse for a bicycle. As it was written in 1896, this surely makes Mulga Bill the very first BMX downhill racer!
Listen to poem such as talks, stories, dialogues and poems.
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