ESL News New Zealand
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Daylight saving starts this weekend
If you want to develop your listening skills, try these tasks as you listen to the text. The answers are at the bottom of this page, after the Vocabulary. Thanks to Natasha Groves for preparing the tasks. If you want to listen and read, just scroll down to the text. 1. Listening for main ideas ... Read more
Women’s Suffrage Day
Note: this story was written and recorded by Pat Syme, the founder of ESL News New Zealand, in 2016. The audio was lost from that post, but I’ve found it and am reposting it here, because it’s such a good explanation of Women’s Suffrage Day. September 19th 1893 was the day when New Zealand women ... Read more
Māori Language Week – 50th anniversary
If you want to develop your listening skills, try these tasks as you listen to the text. The answers are at the bottom of this page, after the Vocabulary. Thanks to Natasha Groves for preparing the tasks. If you want to listen and read, just scroll down to the text. 1. Listening for main ideas ... Read more
Fewer marriages in New Zealand
If you want to develop your listening skills, try these tasks as you listen to the text. The answers are at the bottom of this page, after the Vocabulary. Thanks to Natasha Groves for preparing the tasks. If you want to listen and read, just scroll down to the text. 1. Listening for main ideas ... Read more
Chinese Language Week
If you want to develop your listening skills, try these tasks as you listen to the text. The answers are at the bottom of this page, after the Vocabulary. Thanks to Natasha Groves for preparing the tasks. If you want to listen and read, just scroll down to the text. 1. Listening for main ideas ... Read more