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How Can Listening Exercises Improve Your English?

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"Listening exercises are too hard!  They take too much time! I don't have time to listen!"

Do you feel this way? There is a way to listen that is easy and saves time.

Look at your routines.  Do you use the computer everyday?  Perhaps you can add listening to these stories to your computer routine.

First, you might want to make this page your homepage.  Everytime you open your browser, listen to just one story. You only need 2 to 3 minutes.  

You will feel more comfortable if you listen to the same story each time for one week.  Then change stories.  

Think about the meaning lightly.  If you are not sure about the meaning, that is ok.  Think about it lightly.  Then stop.  Go on to your other business.  

You have done your practice.  If you do this everyday, your english will begin to improve after just one month.  After six months, you may be surprised!


The End of the Good Times

Verb list
1. be over              to be finished or ended.
2. live it up             to live or celebrate in an extravagant way
3. make room for     to be adaptable enough to allow something without major change
4. keep on              to continue doing something
5. put off               to delay or postpone something
Bruce






To listen the slower version, click below.



Janine Harbridge loves going on expensive vacations to warm tropical countries.  But the days of the strong economy are over now, and she knows that she can't keep on living it up without thinking about tomorrow.  If the economy gets much worse, she might even have to make room for another person to share her apartment, because the rent is getting very expensive now.  She might be able to put off renting the room though, if she saves her money from now on.

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