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BBC World Service English Language Teaching celebrates first ten years
BBC World
Service English Language Teaching service celebrates 10 years online this April.
The popular, cutting-edge site receives 10 million page impressions a month - 19 million if you count English Language Teaching material on partner websites.
Special features on www.bbclearningenglish.com to mark the anniversary include:
- A
mini retro site displaying classic pages from the archives
- A specially-commissioned piece by linguist David Graddol discusses who will be learning
English in the future and how and what they will be learning
- A blogging
facility providing daily language support to individual bloggers
via a teacher's weblog
The website also features Flatmates - BBC World Service's
first interactive soap; Ask About English, where experts answer
users' questions; and Keep Your English Up To
Date, in which Professor
David Crystal discusses new words.
And there are interactive teaching games Back of the
Net and Commentary Box and a range of short audio programmes with quizzes, glossaries and
downloadable scripts on lifestyle and entertainment.
For teachers of English, weekly lesson plans based on topical news stories are
available.
Users' Comments
"I use the
site to improve my English in an entertaining way and get connected
with people of different cultural backgrounds. I cannot repeat
enough times how grateful I am for these BBC Learning English pages." -
Zsuzsa, Hungary
"I hope
that this site can last forever because I am using it everyday
to improve my level." -
Bajeczka, Poland
"English
language helps me to make some career. If you want to make the
running here in Russia, to get The Peak, you need learn it. ...
I like all your topics, especially the Message board. The whole
world meets here." -
Denis, Russia
"I use
this site in order to improve my English by talking with people
all over the world." - Ismeralda, Syria
"I think
it's a dynamic and fun way of improving English skills." -
Kirsti, Finland
"Three
months ago I've decided to start learning English regularly using
BBC Learning English websites. That was my 'New Year's decision'.
I joke that I have English School at home and my private 'BBC teacher'." -
Adrian, Poland
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