Listening Comprehension & Note-Taking
Exercises
General Listening
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Advanced Conversational English
A Driving Incident Exercise
Sex Education in Schools Exercise
General
A Double Life Exercise
Escape from Hanley Park Exercise
Prince Albert and the Jewel Robbers Exercise
The Lion and Albert Exercise
Albert’s Return Exercise
Lolita (extract read by Vladimir Nabokov) Exercise
Redundancy Exercise
Speeches
Abraham Lincoln – Gettysburg Address 19/11/1863 Exercise
Amy Johnson 09/06/30 Exercise
Frankin D. Roosevelt – Inauguration 03/04/1933 Exercise
Winston Churchill 13/05/40 Exercise
Winston Churchill 04/06/1940 Exercise
Winston Churchill 20/08/40 Exercise
Princess Elizabeth’s Wartime Broadcast – 13/10/40 Exercise
Aneurin Bevan 04/11/56 Exercise
Harold Macmillan – Cape Town 03/02/60 Exercise
John F Kennedy – Presidential Inauguration 20/01/61 Exercise
Francis Crick – 13/11/62 Exercise
John F Kennedy – 22/10/62 Exercise
Martin Luther King – Washington 08/08/63 Exercise
Nelson Mandela – 1964 Exercise
Harold Wilson – 19/11/67 Exercise
Margaret Thatcher – 10/10/80 Exercise
F W de Klerk – 10/02/90 Exercise
Nelson Mandela – Inaugural Speech 09/05/94 Exercise
Prince Charles – Hong Kong 01/07/97 Exercise
Tony Blair – Cambridge 13/09/99 Exercise
Michael Moore – 11/09/01 Exercise
Tony Blair – Brighton 02/10/01 Exercise
Australian Federal Budget Speech 2002-2003 Exercise
George Bush – London 19/11/03 Exercise
Sonia Shah: Crude 01/10/04 Exercise
Tony Blair – Brighton 28/09/04 Exercise
Ayad Allawi – London 29/09/04 Exercise
George Bush – Inaugural Speech 20/01/05 Exercise
Queen’s Speech – Opening Parliament 17/05/05 Exercise
Gordon Brown – Budget Speech 22/03/06 Exercise
Tony Blair – Conference Speech 26/09/06 Exercise
Tony Blair – Resignation Speech 10/05/07 Exercise
Gordon Brown – Prime Minister 24/09/07 Exercise
Alistair Darling – Budget Speech 12/03/08 Exercise
Barack Obama – Inauguration 20/01/09 Exercise
Malala Yousafzai, Nobel Lecture, December 10, 2014 Exercise
Theresa May – Brexit Speech, 17/01/17 Exercise
Donald Trump – Inauguration – 20/01/17 Exercise
Boris Johnson – First Speech as Prime Minister 24/07/19 Exercise
Boris Johnson – Address to the Nation on coronavirus 23/03/20 Exercise
Joe Biden: Inauguration 21/1/21 Exercise
Boris Johnson: Resignation 7/7/22 Exercise
Speech Extracts
Sullivan Ballou – Jul 1861 Exercise
Amelia Earhart – Feb 1931 Exercise
Franklin D Roosevelt – Inauguration – 04/03/33 Exercise
Winston Churchill – 04/06/40 Exercise
Jawaharlal Nehru – A tryst with destiny 14/08/47 Exercise
Eleanor Roosevelt – Human Rights 09/12/48 Exercise
J F Kennedy – Inauguration 1961 Exercise
Harold Wilson – Scarborough 01/10/63 Exercise
Harold Macmillan – Cape Town 03/02/60 Exercise
Nelson Mandela – Pretoria 20/04/64 Exercise
Malcolm X Exercise
Neil Armstrong – Moon Landing 20/07/69 Exercise
Margaret Thatcher – Invasion of Falkland Islands 03/04/82 Exercise
Bertrand Russell Exercise
George Bush – The Bombing of Iraq – 17/01/91 Exercise
Ronald Reagan – On being shot Exercise
Eddie George – Hertfordshire 14/02/99 Exercise
Condoleezza Rice – London 26/06/03 Exercise
Stephen Hawking Exercise
Hilary Clinton Exercise
George Bush – Swearing In as President 20/01/05 Exercise
Barack Obama – Swearing In as President 20/01/09 Exercise
Barack Obama – 2/12/09 on Afghanistan Exercise
Discussions
Future of Computing Exercise
