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Business English Podcasts

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

http://businessenglishpod.com/

From the website: “Business English Pod provides free weekly MP3 podcast ESL lessons and audio / e-Book courses for intermediate and advanced business English learners. Each business English podcast lesson is focused on a particular workplace English skill (meetings, presentations, telephoning, negotiating, socializing, travel, conversation etc.) and language function (clarifying, disagreeing, questioning, expressing opinions, persuasion etc.).”

Apple Podcasting Help Pages

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

http://www.apple.com/itunes/store/podcaststechspecs.html#example

A collection of help pages from Apple for those who wish to create and publish podcasts.

Chinese Pod

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

http://chinesepod.com/

From the website: “ChinesePod is a language training service unlike anything you have ever seen before. It works by taking the best of the traditional classroom, and recreating it around the needs and lifestyle of the student, with all the improvements that technology allows. Therefore, just like a traditional classroom, ChinesePod provides a community of practice: great teachers, lively discussion with fellow students, and a shared learning experience.”

Professional English Online (Cambridge University Press)

Friday, November 30th, 2007

http://www.cambridge.org/elt/resources/professional/default.htm

This English for Specific Purposes website offers podcasts, blogs, activity templates, “jargon busters” and other materials for English Language teachers and students of business English.

Disclosure: The post author currently works for Cambridge University Press. The opinions expressed here are my own and are not necessarily those of my employer. This blog is not sponsored nor endorsed by my employer.

Education Podcast Network

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

http://www.epnweb.org/

From the website: “The Education Podcast Network is an effort to bring together into one place, the wide range of podcast programming that may be helpful to teachers looking for content to teach with and about, and to explore issues of teaching and learning in the 21st century.”

The Bob and Rob Show: English Lessons/Podcasts

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

http://www.thebobandrobshow.com/

From the website: “The Bob and Rob Show is a variety show for learning English. It’s aimed at intermediate to advanced learners of English.

“Bob and Rob live in Japan, and they both teach English at the same university.”

Podcasting for the College EFL Curriculum

Friday, December 22nd, 2006

http://waoe.org/president/presentations/JALT2006.html

From the website: “Japan Association for Language Teaching JALT 2006 International Conference
Kitakyushu International Conference Centre, Kokura, Japan (3 November 2006)
a presentation by Steve McCarty”

Japancasting

Friday, December 22nd, 2006

http://pod-efl.wikispaces.com/Japancasting

From the website: “Podcasting, Coursecasting, & Web 2.0 Technologies for Research by Steve McCarty, Professor, Osaka Jogakuin College, Japan
President (1998-2007), World Association for Online Education (WAOE)”

Breaking News English

Friday, July 28th, 2006

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/

From the website: “All of these current events and business English lesson plans contain a news article, listening (MP3 file), podcast, communication activities, pair work, discussion, reading and vocabulary exercises. Classroom handouts are reproducible in Word and PDF. SPELLING: This site uses the American English spelling system.”

EnglishPod

Sunday, May 7th, 2006

http://www.englishpod.com/

From the website: “EnglishPod is an on-demand training product that enables users to learn English on their terms - when and where is most convenient for them. LISTEN to the free daily podcasts on your media device (iPod, MP3 player, phone, computer, etc). Use the PDF transcripts to PRACTICE what you heard with a teacher, friend or colleague. Then REVIEW the key vocabulary and grammar on the EnglishPod website to reinforce what you learned.”

Guardian Article about EnglishPod: http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1766486,00.html


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