Listening Comprehension & Note-Taking
Exercises
General Listening
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Speeches
Abraham Lincoln - Gettysburg Address 19/11/1863 Exercise
Amy Johnson 09/06/30 Exercise
Frankin D. Roosevelt - Inauguration 03/04/1933 Exercise
Winston Churchill 13/05/40 Exercise
Winston Churchill 04/06/1940 Exercise
Winston Churchill 20/08/40 Exercise
Princess Elizabeth's Wartime Broadcast - 13/10/40 Exercise
Aneurin Bevan 04/11/56 Exercise
Harold Macmillan - Cape Town 03/02/60 Exercise
John F Kennedy - Presidential Inauguration 20/01/61 Exercise
Francis Crick - 13/11/62 Exercise
John F Kennedy - 22/10/62 Exercise
Martin Luther King - Washington 08/08/63 Exercise
Nelson Mandela - 1964 Exercise
Harold Wilson - 19/11/67 Exercise
Margaret Thatcher - 10/10/80 Exercise
F W de Klerk - 10/02/90 Exercise
Nelson Mandela - Inaugural Speech 09/05/94 Exercise
Prince Charles - Hong Kong 01/07/97 Exercise
Tony Blair - Cambridge 13/09/99 Exercise
Michael Moore - 11/09/01 Exercise
Tony Blair - Brighton 02/10/01 Exercise
Australian Federal Budget Speech 2002-2003 Exercise
George Bush - London 19/11/03 Exercise
Sonia Shah: Crude 01/10/04 Exercise
Tony Blair - Brighton 28/09/04 Exercise
Ayad Allawi - London 29/09/04 Exercise
George Bush - Inaugural Speech 20/01/05 Exercise
Queen's Speech - Opening Parliament 17/05/05 Exercise
Gordon Brown - Budget Speech 22/03/06 Exercise
Tony Blair - Conference Speech 26/09/06 Exercise
Tony Blair - Resignation Speech 10/05/07 Exercise
Gordon Brown - Prime Minister 24/09/07 Exercise
Alistair Darling - Budget Speech 12/03/08 Exercise
Barack Obama - Inauguration 20/01/09 Exercise
Malala Yousafzai, Nobel Lecture, December 10, 2014 Exercise
Theresa May - Brexit Speech, 17/01/17 Exercise
Donald Trump - Inauguration - 20/01/17 Exercise
Boris Johnson - First Speech as Prime Minister 24/07/19 Exercise
Boris Johnson - Address to the Nation on coronavirus 23/03/20 Exercise
Joe Biden: Inauguration 21/1/21 Exercise
Boris Johnson: Resignation 7/7/22 Exercise
Speech Extracts
Sullivan Ballou - Jul 1861 Exercise
Amelia Earhart - Feb 1931 Exercise
Franklin D Roosevelt - Inauguration - 04/03/33 Exercise
Winston Churchill - 04/06/40 Exercise
Jawaharlal Nehru - A tryst with destiny 14/08/47 Exercise
Eleanor Roosevelt - Human Rights 09/12/48 Exercise
J F Kennedy - Inauguration 1961 Exercise
Harold Wilson - Scarborough 01/10/63 Exercise
Harold Macmillan - Cape Town 03/02/60 Exercise
Nelson Mandela - Pretoria 20/04/64 Exercise
Malcolm X Exercise
Neil Armstrong - Moon Landing 20/07/69 Exercise
Margaret Thatcher - Invasion of Falkland Islands 03/04/82 Exercise
Bertrand Russell Exercise
George Bush - The Bombing of Iraq - 17/01/91 Exercise
Ronald Reagan - On being shot Exercise
Eddie George - Hertfordshire 14/02/99 Exercise
Condoleezza Rice - London 26/06/03 Exercise
Stephen Hawking Exercise
Hilary Clinton Exercise
George Bush - Swearing In as President 20/01/05 Exercise
Barack Obama - Swearing In as President 20/01/09 Exercise
Barack Obama - 2/12/09 on Afghanistan Exercise
