Listening Practice
Looking for intermediate to advanced English listening practice? We’ve created a variety of listening tasks and professional worksheets to improve your listening skills, accessible for only a few Academic Marks. Select a topic below, download the text, and then unlock the pre-listening, while listening, and post-listening tasks to check your understanding.
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Future Technology
Topic 1: Beautiful Solar Power
Difficulty: Intermediate-Advanced
Length: 08.53
Description: A short academic video about the importance of solar power and how this technology can be better integrated into society through creative design methods.
Topic 2: Technology Solving Problems
Difficulty: Intermediate-Advanced
Length: 10.03
Description: A short academic video about technological development since the Space Race, and a debate about whether such technology can fix humanity’s problems.
The Environment
Topic 1: Saving the Rainforest
Difficulty: Intermediate-Advanced
Length: 09.30
Description: A short academic video about the importance of saving the forest and how this can be achieved through the use of existing resources.
Topic 2: Solving Global Warming
Difficulty: Intermediate-Advanced
Length: 09.51
Description: A short academic video about the how the world came together thirty years ago to fight climate change and how it can therefore do it again.
The Space Race
Topic 1: Space Station Innovations
Difficulty: Intermediate-Advanced
Length: 08.06
Description: A listening text about the technology used to overcome problems and increase comfort onboard the International Space Station (ISS).
Topic 2: Sustainable Space Travel
Difficulty: Intermediate-Advanced
Length: 08.07
Description: A short listening text about the demands of space travel on the environment and how to make interstellar travel more sustainable.
