Best audio/video news websites

The best audio/video news and current affairs websites to learn English. The image below is interactive. Click on the icon and read what each website has to offer. 

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Television

1. Listen to a conversation and choose the right answer.

2. Is TV a bad influence? Listen and choose the right answer.




Read a text about Reality TV.

The Media

Click here to review some vocabulary.
Newspaper vocabulary
TV genres
How to describe a TV programme

Click on "media" in contents to do more activities related to the topic.

News and the Media

Click here to learn some vocabulary.




Reading activities about mass media.

Have a look at this lesson on "Discussing the News". It includes a listening activity, the script with the explanation of the new expressions and a vocabulary activity.

Click here to watch a video explaining five ways to spot fake news.

Some websites where you can practise your English through news stories. Why not listening to a news story every day?

1. ECTV News
2. BBC
3. CNN
4. Breaking news
5. News in Levels

Watch this funny video first without subtitles. Watch it again clicking on the subtitles. Do you know the meaning of the words in the Vocab-U-Cast? Check them in the Urban Dictionary.

The Media

Click here to learn some newspaper vocabulary.

Click here to listen to a discussion about newspapers.

Listen to Nicola talking about newspapers in Britain.

Click here to watch a video about newspaper reading and here to watch another one about newspaper headline.

Click here to do a listening activity on how false information spreads.