How I Saved a Life: Listening Comprehension for Learners of English

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We'd like to receive your feedback, Please! Our website and podcasts are for you, learners of English. Please take a moment to give us your suggestions for future lessons, or any questions about English and American culture that you have. Submit your ideas to our blog! Your Feedback Is Our Feed! Looking for Our Grammar Book? The Grammar HELP! Student Handbook	How I Saved Somebody's Life An Audio Story Activities for Additional Listening Comprehension and Grammar Practice The type of activity below, a cross between a dictation and a "cloze" procedure, is a great activity to improve your listening comprehension, grammar, punctuation, and spelling. First, listen to the whole story. Listen to the whole story a second time. Now, listen to the special cloze version, in which we leave selected words blank. Every time you hear the sound of the bell, a word will be missing and the bell will be in its place. What word fits there? If you are online and can get a paper and pencil, write your answer and check below to see if you are correct. Check the verb, the verb tense and verb form, and spelling. If you do not have a pencil and paper available, you can still participate in the activity. Do you have our pencil and paper ready? Then you are ready to listen to the special cloze version. You can repeat this step if you'd like, until you are ready to check your answers. More advanced listeners can use the whole story as a dictation. Simply click on the pause button on your audio player whenever you want to stop and write. Finally, to listen to the full story again, click here. Answers: who train station men sound closer think quickly Sounds courtesy of freesound.iua.upf.edu, Corsica_S, Creative Commons license	Please donate to help keep more great ESL grammar and communication lessons. coming your way. We appreciate every donation. Visit: Our Library of MP3 Audio Stories. Visit our Answer Key, where you get more great exercises in English grammar. Visit our Inner Circle where you can listen to and read along with essays written by other learners of English. Subscribe to Our Feed Today's Date Would you like to read all the Easy Writer stories? www.softwareforstudents.com
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