A lecture extract on the urban heat island
A university lecturer explains why cities are warmer than the countryside, weighs up possible remedies and asks who suffers most.
13 questions · 20 min
C1 Listening Practice
Listen to conversations, announcements and talks, then answer questions to check your understanding.
5 lessons
A podcast about photographs and memory
A presenter and two guests discuss whether recording everything on a phone weakens what we actually remember.
13 questions · 20 min
An interview with a restoration ecologist
A restoration ecologist explains why bringing a drained marsh back to life meant removing things rather than planting them.
14 questions · 20 min
A radio feature about a town's sound map
A radio reporter follows a retired electrician who records everyday sounds to keep a record of how his harbour town sounds.
14 questions · 20 min
A seminar on automated job screening
A professor and two students debate whether automated tools can sort job applications fairly, and what safeguards an organisation would need.
13 questions · 25 min
Original scripts read by open-source text-to-speech voices. Levels are suggestions.