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CNN Student News: February 11, 2010

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Practice your listening skill 

1) Click here to download the worksheet and  go through the questions.

2) Watch the video the whole way through:

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3) Try to answer as many questions as possible.

4) Watch the video again pausing after each one of the news and answer the rest of the questions.

5) Then, click here and check your answers.

6) Finally, watch the video again and read the transcript so you can see exactly what you understood and what you didn’t understand. Click on this link:  http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/studentnews/02/10/transcript.thu/index.html

TIP:  look up any new words or phrases in the dictionary 😉

Learn English online

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The following link will lead you to a website to learn English online for free. It is plenty of exercises dealing with grammar issues which you may have difficulties with, such as modal verbs, pronouns, adverbs, prepositions, etc with simple and clear explanations and the answer keys. You can choose from different levels and types of exercises, there are also video lessons and much more.

I encourage you to visit this useful site and do as many exercises as possible!

http://www.autoenglish.org

http://www.autoenglish.org/tenses.htm (click here to go directly to verb tenses: modals, conditionals…)

http://www.autoenglish.org/freeexercises.htm (click here to go directly to the grammar exercises)

Good luck!