LearningEnglish (shared by Academia Native, contains 36 English texts)

Five Ways to Instantly Sound Like a Native Speaker (12 likes)

Upper Beginner, 1004 words

Five Ways to Instantly Sound Like a Native Speaker Today I've got 5 tips to instantly sound more like a native speaker! And the good news is you don't need to spend hours learning them and practising

Buenos Aires Vacation Travel Guide (2 likes)

Expedia, Non-Fiction, Advanced, 699 words

Buenos Aires Vacation Travel Guide Buenos Aires is nicknamed La Reina del Plata, the Queen of the Plata River in a far corner of South America. About a quarter of Argentina's 42 million residents liv

26 Key words to take you from intermediate to advanced (4 likes)

Upper Intermediate, 2534 words

26 Key words to take you from intermediate to advanced Can you speak English ok and yet you find it difficult to understand native English speakers? Can you have a conversation but find it hard

How to Give a Presentation (2 likes)

Let Them Talk TV, Non-Fiction, Intermediate, 2230 words

So you've written a wonderful presentation it's got a big idea it's full of useful data, insight into the topic, brilliant observations. You're wise, you're clever, you're funny, and yet when you give

The great fire of london (2 likes)

Beginner, 5 words

The great fire of london

French words commonly used in English (3 likes)

livinglanguage.com, Non-Fiction, Advanced, 545 words

French words commonly used in English With thanks to https://www.livinglanguage.com/blog/2017/07/14/french-words-and-expressions-used-in-english/ Here is a collection of French words commonly u

Irregular Verb Song (13 likes)

ROckin' English Lessons, Song, Upper Intermediate, 160 words

Irregular Verb Song play at 75% speed by pressing the gear icon Cut cut cut cortar Let let let dejar Hit hit hit pegar Put put put poner Quit quit quit parar Set set set poner Bet bet

Cambridge Advanced English Wordlist - Unit 1 (3 likes)

CUP, Non-Fiction, Upper Intermediate, 1016 words

Cambridge Advanced English Wordlist - Unit 1 Abbreviations: n/np = noun / noun phrase; v/vp = verb / verb phrase; adj/adjp = adjective / adjective phrase; adv/advp = adverb / adverb phrase; T/I =

# 110 Idioms/ Fixed Expressions (1 likes)

Inter-cambios Idiomas, Non-Fiction, Beginner, 2012 words

109 Fixed Expressions WIth thanks to Intercambiosidiomas 1. Not be bothered (infinitive) – not fancy. I can't be bothered to do my homework this evening. 2. Be bound to (infinitive) – be l

Phrasal Verbs with Get (2 likes)

Expresso English, Non-Fiction, Upper Beginner, 1173 words

20 Phrasal Verbs with Get It is recommended that you play this with a Text To Speech (TTS)Engine like "Read Aloud", and a high quality voice like Heather from Cereproc. 1 Get Across. Get acr

Correct Use of Punctuation (1 likes)

Oxford Online, Intermediate, 2402 words

Hi, I’m Kasia. Welcome to Oxford Online English! In this lesson, you can learn about English punctuation. You’ll see the most common punctuation marks in English, what they’re called, and how to use t

Valentine - An analysis of the poem by Carol Ann Duffy. (2 likes)

The Learning Cauldron, Other, Upper Intermediate, 1223 words

Valentine - An analysis of the poem by Carol Ann Duffy. Here's an episode of how to analyze poetry from the Learning Cauldron. Today we'll be looking at Carolyn Duffy's poem Valentine. Analyzing p

Animated History of Spain (2 likes)

Suibhne, Non-Fiction, Advanced, 1454 words

Ahh, Spain ... A land marred by the scars of its past A land almost synonymous with empire, having been under the yoke of so many foreign rulers that even they began to lose count. A land who very o

Uncountable Nouns (4 likes)

BBC Learning English, Non-Fiction, Intermediate, 838 words

Neil Hello! Welcome to 6 Minute Vocabulary. I'm Neil. Catherine And I'm Catherine. In this show we're talking about uncountable nouns. Neil Yes, we are. So that's nouns that you can’t coun

How to Disagree Better. (3 likes)

BBC Six Minute English, Intermediate, 989 words

How to Disagree Better. Sam Hello. This is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English. I'm Sam… Rob And I'm Rob. Sam In this programme, we’ll be talking about disagreeing. Rob

101 Phrasal Verbs (7 likes)

Let Them Talk TV., Beginner, 1557 words

101 Phrasal Verbs Now, the ones i've chosen are for intermediate and advanced students. So I won't be covering ones such as SIT DOWN, GET UP, WAIT FOR because at this level you should already know

Intermediate Phrasal Verbs (20 likes)

Easy English, Non-Fiction, Beginner, 824 words

Intermediate Phrasal Verbs Synchronized audio-text brought to you by Academia Native, Talavera de la Reina Hi Irene. Hi Ariel, you seem a little under the weather: what's wrong. My car bro

Great Fire of London (1 likes)

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Raymond Murphy on English Grammar in Use (12 likes)

Raymond Murphy on "English Grammar in Use", Conversation, Upper Intermediate, 830 words

Raymond Murphy on "English Grammar in Use". Around 1980 I was teaching at a language school in Oxford. Teaching mainly intermediate students. And they came from all over the world, mixed national

The Scribendi.com Glossary | Scribendi (1 likes)

Intermediate, 99 words

× Ordering is easy. Start by telling us who you are. Academic I need to have my journal article, dissertation, or term paper edited and proofread, or I need help with an admissions essay or pro

Chrome Add-ons for Language Learning (1 likes)

Bayuela Idiomas, Non-Fiction, Advanced, 1143 words

Chrome Add-ons for Language Learning (this is currently a DRAFT) Chrome browser add-ons give clever tricks for improving your knowledge of foreign languages. They work on any computer that you lo

Silent Letters in English (2 likes)

Joanne Rudling, Non-Fiction, Advanced, 1612 words

Silent Letters in English (is it recommended that you listen to this on a computer or phone with a TTS Engine like “Read Aloud” installed as a Chrome browser extension, and a high quality voic

Reduplication (5 likes)

Let Them Talk TV, Non-Fiction, Upper Intermediate, 1169 words

Reduplication Okey-dokey everybody I've got something super duper for you today because we are going to get to the Nitty Gritty of reduplication. Now some of you are no doubt saying to yourself

The 44 Phonemic Sounds in English for Spelling (2 likes)

Advanced, 1576 words

Silent Letters in English Adapted from Joanne Rudling - “The Reasons Why English Spelling is so Weird and Wonderful”. More than 60% of English words have silent letters in them, which can cause

The 44 Phonemes in English (1 likes)

Advanced, 258 words

Phoneme IPA Symbol Graphemes Examples Voiced? 1 b b, bb bug, bubble Yes 2 d d, dd, ed dad, add, milled Yes 3 f f, ff, ph, gh, lf, ft fat, cliff, phone, enough, half, often No 4 g g, gg, gh,gu,gue gun,

The Oxford 3000 with examples. Part 1 (1 likes)

Oxford University Press, Other, Intermediate, 15221 words

The Oxford 3000 with examples. Part 1 It is recommended that you read this text with a TTS engine like "Read Aloud" and a professional voice like those available from CereProc. a couple, he's

The 3000 Oxford 'a' (1 likes)

Master, 278 words

a abandon abandoned ability able about above abroad absence absent absolute absolutely absorb abuse academic accent accept acceptable access accident accidental accidentally accommodation accompany ac

Common mistakes with prepositions (2 likes)

Beginner, 610 words

common mistakes with prepositions 1. I cannot agree TO you in this situation - I cannot agree with you IN this situation 2. He agreed with my demands - he agreed to my demands. She is waiting the arr

Today, on LetThemTalkTV. (0 likes)

Let Them Talk TV, Conversation, Upper Beginner, 3908 words

Today, on LetThemTalkTV. We're in Paris and we're going to look at how the French language has influenced the English language. And I'm joined today by the enfant terrible of English language teaching

Scottish English v Southern English Pronunciation (2 likes)

Let them talk TV, Conversation, Intermediate, 2875 words

A synchronised video text from Academia Native, Talavera de la Reina How are you so late? Today on LetThemTalkTV you're going to learn how to speak Scottish English, and you'll also learn a lit

A halloween story (4 likes)

Upper Beginner, 493 words

A Halloween Story ELF Learning proudly presents the Whistling Scarecrow. These are crows. Crows love to eat, but crows don't like scarecrows. Scarecrows stand in the field all day and all night.

The "best" and "worst" British accents (2 likes)

Let them Talk TV, Non-Fiction, Upper Intermediate, 2061 words

In 2012 a survey of 4,000 respondents found that British people rated Scouse, the accent of Liverpool, as the least intelligent and least trustworthy. What! How is that possible? Scouse is the acc

Relative Pronouns and Relative Clauses (2 likes)

Let Them Talk TV, Intermediate, 2463 words

Relative Pronouns and Relative Clauses Let Them Talk TV, with synchronised text added by Academia Native, Talavera de la Reina There are three things that you should never do in life: one don'

Inversions (1 likes)

LetThemTalkTV, Non-Fiction, Upper Beginner, 1342 words

Inversions Now you know how you make a question in English. For example, you have a sentence such as: "you can ride a horse" and you want to make it into a question. All you do is to take the pro

St Andrew's Day 2021: Who is Saint Andrew? Why Scotland celebrates St Andrew -… (4 likes)

Master, 769 words

Why Scotland celebrates St Andrew The Scotsman, 24.12.21, Readlang Version The arrival of St Andrew’s Day, celebrating Scotland’s patron saint – Saint Andrew the Apostle - is just around the c

XMAS PLAY “An Unexpected Christmas” (1 likes)

??, Fiction, Upper Beginner, 3113 words

XMAS PLAY “An Unexpected Christmas” - VOICE-OFF: Have you ever wondered what we might see if we could pull back the curtain of time to that very first Christmas? - If we could, I imagine the stor