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Improve your English listening skills for free with clips from popular movies and TV series. Learn vocabulary, read transcripts, take the quiz, and more.

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Halloween Listening Lab Lessons

A woman stands in the doorway between the bathroom and hallway. She is looking to her left while holding a towel in her arms. She has dark hair that is up in a bun. She has light brown skin. She is wearing an oversized T-shirt.

1:00

I Waited For You

Barbarian (2022)

B2 - Intermediate 🌿

A woman rides on the back of a horse. The woman is wearing a black cloak over her blue dress, with the hood of the cloak draped over her head. The woman appears to be afraid. The horse is a light brown color with a blonde mane. The horse appears to be shocked. In the background are leafless trees and a dark, spooky sky.

3:49

Belle Takes Her Fathers Place

Beauty and the Beast (1991)

B2 - Intermediate 🌿

Woman leaning against a wood-paneled wall next to a wooden door. She's looking to the right. She has blonde, braided hair in an updo. She has fair skin. She is wearing a white lace wedding dress. The room is very dark and atmospheric. She looks scared.

1:38

Head Start

Ready or Not (2019)

B1 - Intermediate 🌿

A family of seven stands crowded around a woman. The woman has her back turned to the viewer and is facing the family. There are three women and four men in the family with a mix of blonde or black hair. All are light-skinned. They appear to be dressed in formal attire. A few are standing on the edge of the staircase, and a few are on the floor. The scene is dark and moody with candles lit on the windowsill behind them, above the staircase on the right of the image. A black piano sits on the left of the image with flowers atop it and gifts below.

1:52

Paper Cut

New Moon (2009)

B1 - Intermediate 🌿

Woman standing in the doorway to a bedroom with a slightly shocked look on her face. She's wearing a wool coat and a red scarf. She has shoulder-length, wavy, dirty-blonde hair.

2:13

Elizabeth Finds Charlie

Hide and Seek (2005)

A2 - Beginner 🌱

Thomas is a great teacher, a good listener, and a really wise person. Something that I find helpful from him is that he can help you with tips for different contexts, well, at least for me, because sometimes I read something in an English book, but I need more examples, either for a casual conversation or for a business environment, and Thomas has helped with that. I highly recommend him!

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Halloween Reading Lab Lessons

Stormy Night Ghost Stories

When lightning strikes and the power goes out, the natural thing to do is share ghost stories.

C1 - Advanced 🌳

What is Halloween?

Halloween is celebrated in The United States every year on October 31st.

B1 - Intermediate 🌿

The Figure at the Foot of My Bed

Could you sleep knowing that you're being watched?

B2 - Intermediate 🌿

Halloween With My Friends

I like to wear scary costumes, eat candy, and watch movies on Halloween.

A2 - Beginner 🌱

Halloween Games

There are 10 navy blue tiles randomly scattered across the top of the image with white letters inside them. Below it is a white arrow pointing down. Across the bottom are 10 more navy blue tiles with white letters in them. These tiles across the bottom are lined up and organized to spell out "unscramble". Everything sits upon a dark green background.
Unscramble: Halloween Nouns
Can you unscramble the names of different Halloween nouns?
Six rectangles are lined up in two columns. The top left rectangle and the bottom right rectangle are both orange with a navy blue line connecting them. The other rectangles are green. Across the bottom is a navy blue banner with the words "matching pairs" written in white.
Image Match: Halloween Nouns
Match the images to their nouns. A special Halloween edition of Image Match to celebrate the holiday.
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How do the labs work?

Start each lesson with a vocabulary warmup that includes words and phrases from a custom-built dictionary.

vocabulary examples from labs
The 'My Daily Routine' story from the reading lab is shown.

For Reading Labs:

Read the story out loud or listen to the AI generated audio.

For Listening Labs:

Watch the video clip as many times as you'd like. Character profiles are included to assist with understanding.

Dinner with the Cullens video clip in the listening lab.

For Listening Labs:

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Every video has a transcript that is hand-typed by Thomas and verified for accuracy. Clip context is also included to assist with comprehension.

For All Labs:

Get additional grammar and vocabulary practice in the quiz.

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The quiz element showing an audio based question for listening practice

For Listening Labs:

Fine tune your listening skills with targeted practice questions.

As a person who has learned many languages of my own, I am determined to help others find their confidence in speaking English. I have been teaching English for just over two years, and I have fallen in love with it. Watching students make progress brings me an unbeatable joy.

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I originally became interested in teaching English a few years ago while studying French. During my studies, I watched lots of movies and YouTube videos for practice, and I loved how 'easy' it was to learn through immersion. That is why this website was created using the very same methods I used to teach myself Spanish, French, and now Portuguese. Every day, I read a short story, watch a TV show, movie, or YouTube video, or I listen to music in all of my target languages. That's it! I only rely on daily immersion and occasionally testing my knowledge.

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The number one thing to remember? Don't be nervous. Children learn languages quickly not because they’re better at it, but because they’re not afraid to try. So go ahead. Try a lesson. Make mistakes. Learn from them and try again. You'll thank yourself later.

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