Une chanson pour se motiver pour booster sa confiance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNU3aIJs88g

Une chanson positive en ces temps difficiles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6Sxv-sUYtM

Une chanson pour fêter l'été après une année bien remplie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IB47PY72D4A

The Independent's cartoonist, Dave Brown, on the Charlie Hebdo attack ind.pn/1s5EV8w

Here is a new site that may be helpful.

You can choose the level you consider is yours.

You listen to the podcast and then you can have a look to the transcription with some exercises given.

Enjoy

http://www.podcastsinenglish.com/index.shtml

You'll find underlined the points I explain later on in bold types.

Daily Mail

Nov 25th, 2013

Typhoon Haiyan feared to have killed TEN THOUSAND Filipinos as Vietnam and China now prepare for the worst

• Typhoon Haiyan was a maximum category-five storm with ground winds of up to 235mph ==> miles per hour
• Red Cross today estimates 1,200 people have been killed, 1,000 of those in the city of Tacloban, Leyte ==> one thousand two hundred
  
• Around four million people are said to have been affected, according to the the country's national disaster agency ==> génitif américain
  
• Bodies were seen floating in flooded streets with rescue workers saying the aftermath was similar to the 2004 Tsunami  ==> prétérit passif. Action passée, achevée et datée
  
• 800,000 evacuated before gales whipped up 19ft waves that battered the islands of Leyte and Samar ==> eight hundred thousand / foot
  
• Storm has now passed majority of the islands and is set to move inland towards Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and China
  
• Hundreds of thousands of people in South East Asia have been evacuated and moved to shelters ==> pluriel + of car nombre imprécis
• 170,000 Vietnamese soldiers are brought in as aid agencies predict 6.5 million people will be affected ==> one hundred seventy  thousand
  
• Thousands of British nationals are thought to have been left stranded by the ferocious weather ==> pluriel + of car nombre imprécis
  
• Britain has pledged £6 million in aid and US Secretary of State John Kerry has said America 'stands ready to help'
  
• UN says 2.5 million people are in need of food aid and UNICEF have estimated 1.5 million children live in affected areas
• Weather forecasts have also predicted that high winds and rain could return to the Philippines on Monday ==> on + day of the week

Here a link to a video dealing with the WTO / the IMF / the World Bank

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQ952ba75Yk

IN THE UK

==> http://www.theguardian.co/uk

The video section is particularly interesting  other pages like : business, women, jobs, UK, world, US shouldn't be overlooked.

==> http://www.theobserver.com

Video and breaking the news sections to be considered

IN THE US

==> http://www.usatoday.com/

==> http://www.time.com/time/

Always some videos available and numerous articles on the global trends

==> http://learningenglish.voanews.com/

A specific website dedicated to foreigners learning English. The articles are also available in podcasts. I warmly recommend this site.

==> http://www.voanews.com/

The specific section Listen in the top right hand corner is really a good training for all the students in BTS who have the oral exam based on audios and videos.

Remember, the more regularly you listen to English and American accents, the easier the test will be.