BBC Elementary Podcasts

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Practise your English language listening skills with Elementary Podcasts. Listen to them on your computer, or download them to your mp3 player or smartphone. When ready, you can do the listening comprehension exercises provided.

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6 minute English audioclips are the perfect option for those who are always in a hurry. Quick and straight to the point listening
. It usually asks you one easy comprehension question and offers some vocabulary keys in case you need help. What is your excuse now?
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BBC LEARNING ENGLISH: 6 MINUTE ENGLISH

Writing an ARTICLE (2)

If it is an opinion article, as the very name suggests, it mainly reflects the author's opinion about a particular subject. However, a scientific article contains an empirical study addressing a specific problem under study and describing a initial hypothesys, the research strategy, cases studies together with results and conclusions. Obviously, this is a much more complex task and unlikely to be found in a language test. Fortunately, in a ESL / EFL test, if we are to get  an article as the writing task, it will be an opinion or newspaper one.

Order of information in a Newspaper Article

Steps to follow:

1) Analyse the task: who is going to read the article? It will be decisive in order to choose a style and the kind of information to be included.

2) Brainstrom and Organise your ideas. This crucial steps are disgracefully skipped by most students. If you don't know what to say and in which order, you are likely to fail in cohesion.

3) Write you article in paragraphs. Remember to make your writing more interesting by using a variety of adjectives. Don't forget your linkers and connectors! Introduce the topic, expand the different ideas and finish the piece with a final conclusion to give a sense of completion.