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Easy reading websiteBookbox: Easy stories with subtitles
05 May 2013 : Bookbox is a high quality website featuring animated and rather easy stories. Each story has English subtitles to make them super-easy to follow and you often have a choice of British or American English.
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Easy English newsChompoo has her say
15 Apr 2013 : Chompoo Araya A. Hargate gives an English language interview about her new musical Reya, her life, taxes and her career.
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Understanding real English
Listening to Obama
26 Oct 2012 : Practice your listenng with this short excerpt from the second presidential debate when President Obama criticises Governor Romney's tax plans.
Photo of the day
Photo of the day
23 Oct 2012 : This photo by Phraisohn Siripool in today's Bangkok Post is getting a lot of interest from our readers. What are they? Read this very short story and find out.
Learning Thai
Learning Thai: Getting to know Trang 2
23 Sep 2012 : Once again, Acharn Sunee has done both a central Thai and a southern Thai version – and, of course, there is an English version as well.
Listening materials
Finding stories on Storycorps
16 Sep 2012 : Yesterday I introduced you to Storycorps, a website where you can find and listen to hundreds of very short stories told by ordinary Americans. Best of all, you can see what they said. Today, we’ll take a closer look at the site.
Listening materials
Storycorps: An endless supply of listening/reading material
15 Sep 2012 : Storycorps provides an endless supply of short (2-3 minute) stories told by ordinary American people of all ages and from all parts of the country. Best of all, you can see what is being said. Here's an example with a Bangkok connection.
Learning Thai
Getting to know Trang 1: ของหรอยเมืองตรัง
14 Sep 2012 : Roast pork or moo yang, a Trang speciality, is the subject of today's Thai/English lesson. Since this is a very southern story, once again Ajaan Sunee Khaenyuk is doing two versions, one in the central dialect and one in phasaa pak tai.
Speaking English
Nine-year-old speaking champion
04 Sep 2012 : Whether speaking English from a pre-planned script or speaking “off the cuff” (without planning), nine-year-old Onrampha Souvannavong from Sriwittayapaknam School is a champion.
Learning how to ask questions
Veronica, who’s the President?
19 Aug 2012 : It wasn’t intended to be an English lesson, but this youtube video featuring a very clever two-year-old is great for learning how to form English questions.
Understanding real English
Is this English?
18 Aug 2012 : Sir Alex Ferguson talks about Van Persie joining United. If you are an English language learner, you may wonder if Sir Alex Ferguson is speaking English or some other language. It’s English, but it’s English with a Scottish accent.
Understanding real English
Listening to the stars, part 2
08 Aug 2012 : Try out your listening skills with a short section of a conversation with Usain Bolt, the world’s fastest human. He comes from Jamaica, so his accent will be a little different than you are used to. AFP photo
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