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GRABAWORD

- activities to help low to high intermediate level English students collect and learn high frequency words as efficiently as possible while improving your listening and reading skills and knowledge about a range of topical issues. This information is also in the Vocabulary and the Reading sections in Independent Learning. Activities for each story are designed to be completed in easy to follow, sequential steps within approximately 45 minutes.

LOW INTERMEDIATE - INTERMEDIATE - Voice Of America (VOA), Behind The News (BtN)
INTERMEDIATE - HIGH INTERMEDIATE - ABC’s The World Today (TWT)
includes links to audio tracks and a transcript.

HOW TO ACCESS GRABAWORD LESSONS

To access these lessons, please go to grabaword.com sign up page (this link opens in a new tab) and add the following code:

24896427323110 (copy and paste this - take care there is no space after the last number)

This access to GrabaWord is also in the Vocabulary and Reading sections of Independent Learning.

Grabaword instruction PPT File

4.7 MB Powerpoint 2007 presentation
Behind The News - main page URL

This is the ABC's website for Behind The News. Some Grabaword lessons (above) are based on these stories.
ABC - The World Today - main page URL

This is the ABC's website for The World Today. Some Grabaword lessons (above) are based on these stories.
Other resources
Podcasts in English - Level 2 - Intermediate URL

Please note: you can listen to the podcasts for free (worksheets/transcripts are not free)
Podcasts in English - Level 3 - Upper Intermediate URL

Please note: you can listen to the podcasts for free (worksheets/transcripts are not free)

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