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Watch CNN News items on Videos conveniently classified by categories. Click Here!

Live from the newsroom of www.france24.com, James Creedon provides an overview of the world’s newspaper headlines, from Monday to Friday at 9.10 am (and at 6.20 am and 7.10 am for France’s newspapers). Watch it now!

TED is a small nonprofit organisation devoted to “Ideas Worth Spreading”. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design.

Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with two annual conferences — the TED Conference in Long Beach and Palm Springs each spring, and the TEDGlobal conference in Oxford UK each summer — TED includes amongst other things the award-winning TEDTalks video site.

“On TED.com, we make the best talks and performances from TED and partners available to the world, for free. More than 700 TEDTalks are now available, with more added each week. All of the talks are subtitled in English, and many are subtitled in various languages.”

Our mission: Spreading ideas.

“We believe passionately in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and ultimately, the world. So we’re building here a clearinghouse that offers free knowledge and inspiration from the world’s most inspired thinkers, and also a community of curious souls to engage with ideas and each other.

This site, launched April 2007, is an ever-evolving work in progress, and you’re an important part of it. Have an idea? We want to hear from you”.

“The springtime TED Conference, held annually in Long Beach and simulcast in Palm Springs, is at the heart of TED. More than a thousand people now attend — indeed, the event sells out a year in advance — and the content has expanded to include science, business, the arts and the global issues facing our world.

Over four days, 50 speakers each take an 18-minute slot, and there are many shorter presentations, including music, performance and comedy. There are no breakout groups. Everyone shares the same experience. It shouldn’t work, but it does. It works because all of knowledge is connected. Every so often it makes sense to emerge from the trenches we dig for a living, and ascend to a 30,000-foot view, where we see, to our astonishment, an intricately interconnected whole.”

Visit www.ted.com for a most amazing learning experience both from a language learning point of view and as a human being open being opening to the Whole.

Free ESL/EFL podcasts with interviews, slideshows, audio notes , and original songs so you can keep  practicing your English even when you are away from your computer.

Video lessons are HERE!

Take your ELLLO with you on the road and repeat lessons as much as you like.

The Teacher is the BBC award-winning video series designed to make learning English idioms fun. Each unit has a video you can watch and download to your computer. There’s also an opportunity for you to practise using the idioms by sending in your ‘homework’.

Try it HERE!

Jennifer is an American teacher who is publishing high quality English videos lessons on YouTube. The material is excellent and there are over 110 videos to watch on various topics from Vocabulary to Grammar and including Pronunciation.

In particular, I highly recommend this series on lessons (below) on Pronunciation. If you work through this series and do the exercises the entire way you listen to English will completely change and, in time, your pronunciation will improve dramatically.

Lesson 6a - WORD STRESS
Lesson 6b - WORD STRESS
Lesson 6c - WORD STRESS
Lesson 6d - WORD STRESS
Lesson 7a - THOUGHT GROUPS
Lesson 7b - THOUGHT GROUPS
Lesson 8a - STRESS PATTERNS
Lesson 8b - STRESS PATTERNS
Lesson 8c - STRESS PATTERNS
Lesson 9a - ADVANCED STRESS PATTERNS
Lesson 9b - ADVANCED STRESS PATTERNS
Lesson 9c - ADVANCED STRESS PATTERNS
Lesson 10a - INTONATION
Lesson 10b - INTONATION
Lesson 10c - INTONATION
Lesson 10d - INTONATION

euronews is the leading international news channel covering world news from a European perspective. Launched in 1993, euronews today is a multi-lingual (English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Arabic), multi-platform news service.

euronews on air, online, all the time

euronews has embraced new technology facilitating an easy access to news and information anytime, anywhere via any method available. Distribution in hotels, airports, onboard airlines and via new media platforms ensures euronews is a readily accessible and valued by travellers. The channel’s website, www.euronews.net, provides around-the-clock news in 8 languages and supports video streams of the day’s most up-to-date news and business stories.

Launched on December 2006, FRANCE 24 is the new 24/7 international news channel. Its mission is to cover international current events from a French perspective and to convey French values throughout the world.

FRANCE 24 is a true news hub that broadcasts its programs over the airwaves and over the internet.

FRANCE 24 gives a French perspective to international current events through diversity of opinions, debate and confrontation of viewpoints.

The channel provides keys to understanding ever more complex events through in-depth analysis. FRANCE 24 puts also culture at the forefront of its programming.

One of the most interesting aspect of France24 is its LIVE FEED which you can look at on Windows Media Player by clicking this link.

WiRED, to my mind, is one of the mots interesting Magazine for those interested in anything new in the area of Lifestyles, Science, the Arts, Communication, Technology, etc;

This monthly US Magazine has, to top it all, a very exciting layout…

It may be difficult to find in a news agent in Europe though…
So you might have to content yourself with the website: www.wired.com

The site itself has many podcats and videos as well. All very challenging material for one who wishes to improve ones ENGLiSH!

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