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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

Sep 22, 2025

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

Sep 18, 2025

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

Sep 15, 2025

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

Sep 8, 2025

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

Sep 1, 2025